How many levels in tower?

[crossis]

I heard about 200+, but is there a limit?

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by crossis:

I heard about 200+, but is there a limit?

The limit is 99999.
The difficulty caps at 200.
Blessing% caps out around floor 700ish.
Item effects consistently drop X around 1800ish.

[jordyexists]

Hey Sodaman, you're probably one of the people in the community who knows this game as good, if not better, than the developers.

I've been going through the labyrinth, and while it is obvious some of the top scores on the leader board are clearly cheating, at what point is it feasible to believe someone genuinely reached that limit?

Your score (on Steam, at least) is above 800 IIRC. There's a handful of scores above 1000 that could also be legitimate. Is it around the 2,000 mark that it starts to be improbable someone actually went that far, just from the amount of time investment required or is it impossible to know if the upper limit of the leader board is genuine or fraudulent with the obvious exceptions (the top few scores above 90k being obviously fraudulent, for instance)?

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by jordyexists:

Hey Sodaman, you're probably one of the people in the community who knows this game as good, if not better, than the developers.

I've been going through the labyrinth, and while it is obvious some of the top scores on the leader board are clearly cheating, at what point is it feasible to believe someone genuinely reached that limit?

Your score (on Steam, at least) is above 800 IIRC. There's a handful of scores above 1000 that could also be legitimate. Is it around the 2,000 mark that it starts to be improbable someone actually went that far, just from the amount of time investment required or is it impossible to know if the upper limit of the leader board is genuine or fraudulent with the obvious exceptions (the top few scores above 90k being obviously fraudulent, for instance)?

Hiya Jordy,

At present, of the top 16, Steam's most legitimate leaderboard players are:
hey8
levin86
羊?吼吼

Most legitimate in that they had gradual, attainable progression since Steam launch over hundreds of floors to get to the position they are now.

Versus illegitimate leaderboard positions of players that showed up overnight 1000+ floors and then maybe pushed a few floors manually after that.

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Starting from floor 201, it takes 10~14 hours to clear 100 floors at an aggressive rate. For the players that aren't as obvious cheaters, their playtimes don't accurately reflect the progression. (e.g., floor 1000+, public profile, but their SoP playtime doesn't support the math).*

The lower 10-hour estimate is if RNG favors you with high dragon trials boss rushes with linked gateways, skipping chests, skip feeding monsters, not picking up loot, spawn killing bosses / null void floors under 3.5 minutes (or <30 seconds of gameplay for 5 bosses if cutting out load times, spawn times, soul burst animations), on an SSD, and taking minimal to no breaks for restroom / food.

The higher number of hours in that time goes up as you start adding some of these things in and/or get unlucky RNG with enemy waves in a linked gateway or a floor that has minimal to no dragon trial rifts.

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It would take about 998 days of Rift floor climbing at the 10~14 hours / day to reach the final floor. With account sharing and shared saves, less than 500 days or late Autumn 2024.

No player demonstrated was on that trajectory or clearing floors at even half that pace.

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On Epic, 心身黄色 is the highest legitimate player around floor 3000ish. Anyone higher than him cheated / floor edited / showed up overnight. In that, Epic players transferred saves to Steam still won't be in the 4000s to match hey8's current floor.

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Edit: This is to say, floor 201~300 repeats itself in terms of difficulty. And the incentive to keep pouring time into the game starts to wane as builds get explored, co-op folks move on, the preferred combat situations are outside of the Rift, and the backlog grows.

[jordyexists]

Thanks for the tips. I'm approaching floor 500 now and I've made it into the top 50 on the leader board, so I was wondering how many people ahead of my score were genuinely playing the game that much.

Thanks for the insight and wisdom!