is evil permanently unlocked or if I do challenges is it going to need me to get to 301 again?

[eqalidan]

so evil is now unlocked for me, I want to finish most of the challenges on normal before I consider permanently moving to it, but one concern I have is if I do challenges will I need to fight back up to level 301 to get into evil or not? that could take a while If I do.

[lordatog]

It's just unlocked forever now. Go ahead and do challenges.

[KablewithaK]

Even with evil unlocked you're going to want to get all your normal challenges done first. They help immensely when you start in on evil. It will also make getting the basic challenges in evil done easier too. Switching over to evil will also make you feel like you started the game over from the beginning so it's best to have as much pumped up/permanent as possible (including NGUs).

[Adrian]

When you start Evil, is Normal still accessible? Do they run in parallel, or once you start Evil, Normal is gone?

So basically, can you go " too early" into Evil, or does it not matter, as you can always fall back to Normal and get stronger before you try again?

[CortJstr]

You can go back to Normal in the RB menu. I had to go back to mop up 24/hr challenges. Changing difficulty is like starting a challenge, your number is reset to 1 and you lose any banks.

[eqalidan]

Originally posted by Adrian:

When you start Evil, is Normal still accessible? Do they run in parallel, or once you start Evil, Normal is gone?

So basically, can you go " too early" into Evil, or does it not matter, as you can always fall back to Normal and get stronger before you try again?

There is no reason not to go to evil, granted, when you do go you are more or less just ngu, itopod and letting beards grow.
at this point in time, yggdrasil is where you are getting most of your exp from and its not really effected by exp digger, the only issue is getting one pp digger level, and at that point you get more pp then you did in normal.

[Schrompf]

Originally posted by eqalidan:

at this point in time, yggdrasil is where you are getting most of your exp from and its not really effected by exp digger,

Oh, I quite disagree there!
Both exp and pp from the 24h fruits are definitely affected by the diggers.
If you want to see for yourself: disable the digger before eating the fruits on one day and push it to the max before eating the second day. Then take a look at that statement again.
I inadvertedly did something similar since I read that the gold fruit is checking your current gps for the income. Well, apparently it's not and I ruined the other fruits for that day.
But as always in life - live and learn.

[CortJstr]

XP fruit is definitely affected by the xp digger.

When diggers were first added to the game gold fruit went by net gps so you had to disable diggers, eat gold fruit, then turn your diggers back on and eat the remaining fruit. This was changed in a later build and gold fruit now goes by gross gps so you can just eat everything all at once.

[eqalidan]

is it?
I know that on normal I was running a fairly significant exp digger, but I don't believe I ever had 3+ million exp at the end of the day, but then again I got 400 levels of evil ngu without to much pain got yggdrasil along with evil levels in exp so making up the % gap from normal would have been pretty fast

If you can buy an exp digger, it would be worth saving before you harvest knowledge and see if it does effect it because at the very least I know the numbers dont take long to surpass what you would have had with with the digger if it does.

[Adrian]

Actually Evil diff is not unlocked just by reaching Boss 301... you also need to beat Beast v4 (and some other stuff)... so I reached Boss 301, but Beast v4 is way ahead of me... I decided to do my remaining challenges now, and then climb up again (not for the Boss lv, but for the Adventure stats) to beat Beast lv4.

[eqalidan]

Originally posted by Adrian:

Actually Evil diff is not unlocked just by reaching Boss 301... you also need to beat Beast v4 (and some other stuff)... so I reached Boss 301, but Beast v4 is way ahead of me... I decided to do my remaining challenges now, and then climb up again (not for the Boss lv, but for the Adventure stats) to beat Beast lv4.

lol, I beat beast v4 long before I hit 301. the only part after that was getting some of the multipliers because I largely didn't touch those as number for advancement, at least at normal, is worthless.