Yet another progression thread

[Tom Foolery]

Hey all after taking a bit of a break i came back to remeber the huge wall ive reached at sector 49, nothing i do seems to be worthwhile, research doesnt go up nearly enough to be useful, ignoring synth for a while as i was told to and the bases are taking 10s of hours for one single upgrade each, i havent unlocked crew yet which i assume will launch me forwards in progession. Most importantly the warps have stopped being useful, ive maxed out every option for each section up until the second split wher the price increases, i cant get past tier 50 on any of the warps. Im wondering if i messed up and am stuck for now or if im forgetting one big thing

[Tom Foolery]

As i wrote this i got to sector 50, all of my points still stand that progress has almost halted, not gaining anything for the amount of time im spending micromanaging the game

[Hunu]

I don't remember what level "crew" unlocks at, but you're damn close to it.

I am at 52 just now, and felt the same thing as you where you were. Not hurtling forward now but the Crew mechanics are a nice little boost to my over all experience.

Right now my build is 1 beam lvl3, 1 charge lvl3, 2 gatling lvl 2, 2 laser lvl 2, 1 bulk lvl3, 2 deflector. Specced the laser cannons fully into support. All weapons take the 100% boost to laser boost power. Both gatling guns I take the fire rate synergy. All shield stuff is completely untouched.

Anyway, have you been keeping up with the challenges? I haven't done any in like 5 levels or so, so I expect you want to have completed challenges up to the same as me:

Core Computing 6/9
Synth Purity 4/5
Power Hungry 4/5
Base Carry 3/5

Also, at this point, your bases should be supplying some significant buffs to you and you should be building more for your next prestige which might be another reason you're feeling stuck.

Good luck!

EDIT: I figured I would quickly add the benefits I am currently (pre prestige) I am getting from my three bases.

Base 1
3.56e14 Damage and Max Shields

Base 2
3.55e5 Computer Speed

Base 3
17.58 Synth Bonus

And also I have nearly completed t6 infinite synths for every component, only 2 parts left to do and it will be done in roughly 1 day.

There are warps too, but I can't tell you anything useful because I haven't prestiged in quite a while.

[Tom Foolery]

Originally posted by Hunu:

I don't remember what level "crew" unlocks at, but you're damn close to it.

I am at 52 just now, and felt the same thing as you where you were. Not hurtling forward now but the Crew mechanics are a nice little boost to my over all experience.

Right now my build is 1 beam lvl3, 1 charge lvl3, 2 gatling lvl 2, 2 laser lvl 2, 1 bulk lvl3, 2 deflector. Specced the laser cannons fully into support. All weapons take the 100% boost to laser boost power. Both gatling guns I take the fire rate synergy. All shield stuff is completely untouched.

Anyway, have you been keeping up with the challenges? I haven't done any in like 5 levels or so, so I expect you want to have completed challenges up to the same as me:

Core Computing 6/9
Synth Purity 4/5
Power Hungry 4/5
Base Carry 3/5

Also, at this point, your bases should be supplying some significant buffs to you and you should be building more for your next prestige which might be another reason you're feeling stuck.

Good luck!

EDIT: I figured I would quickly add the benefits I am currently (pre prestige) I am getting from my three bases.

Base 1
3.56e14 Damage and Max Shields

Base 2
3.55e5 Computer Speed

Base 3
17.58 Synth Bonus

And also I have nearly completed t6 infinite synths for every component, only 2 parts left to do and it will be done in roughly 1 day.

There are warps too, but I can't tell you anything useful because I haven't prestiged in quite a while.

it has taken me 54 days of playtime to realise not all the bases gave me extra damage and shields...

Ill look into the challenges but iirc last time i checked i had finished all the ones i could theoratically do at this point.

ALso yeah i am mighty close to crew, one sector away to be exact

Somehow i have higher base multipliers than you
9e14 Damage + shields

8e5 Compute

8 synth

[Hunu]

I haven't prestiged in 4.5 days, I will have:

8.68e14 D/S

1.27e6 Compute

40.47 Synth



Have you done any research focused stuff yet? I put an hour or two into it on a retrofit just to see and I went from like e32 research to e36.

7k x Salvage amount
11 x synth speed
1.51e44 x VP max
1440 x VP Generation
24 x shard drop
2k x Research

I EDITED ABOVE, LOL, READ THIS AGAIN.

[Tom Foolery]

Originally posted by Hunu:

I haven't prestiged in 4.5 days, I will have:

8.68e14 D/S

1.27e6 Compute

40.47 Synth



Have you done any research focused stuff yet? I put an hour or two into it on a retrofit just to see and I went from like e32 research to e36.

7k x Salvage amount
11 x synth speed
1.51e44 x VP max
1440 x VP Generation
24 x shard drop
2k x Research

I EDITED ABOVE, LOL, READ THIS AGAIN.

Yeah my research is grinded quite well
2.45e4 Salvage
9 Synth

2.4e4 Max
1998 power

44 shard
1e4 research

[Tom Foolery]

Maybe ill go back to grinding synth soon

[Hunu]

Originally posted by friggin' michael zombies:

Maybe ill go back to grinding synth soon

That could be the magic ingredient you're missing. Best of luck, and do update the thread when things are moving forward for you again :D

[Tom Foolery]

Originally posted by Hunu:

Originally posted by friggin' michael zombies:

Maybe ill go back to grinding synth soon

That could be the magic ingredient you're missing. Best of luck, and do update the thread when things are moving forward for you again :D

Will do, who knows maybe synth is the secret to all issues...

[TRONER]

I unlocked crew 2 days ago. What i did was: improve on that research. Do a minimun 10 hour run of compute levels. got a bonus of e10.
Then retrofit to have research bonus activated. my salvage multiplier is at 1.2e5. But its best if you focus on each for a few hours. Try to be at level 50 so you have better sector density and try to reach e40 on each research.
After that switch research for resource refinery. This will get you more salvage, thus giving you more damage and beat level 50 boss ( i almost completed the whole row of upgrades, just the last one that i missed) .Be sure to make the laser strat boost. -» beam laser focus and everything else giving support.

[rob_s_cat2]

synth should be at beginning of t8 ideally at that point, but you won't likely finish it before new content unless new content takes another month.
that said, challenges here, especially power to completion, synth to where you can get it, compute up to at least 6 but preferably 7, and base carry up to 3, make important contributions leading up to getting base 4.
i personally did a full research run, right from the outset until i reached e50 at this stage, and that naturally led into a reactor run the very next prestige. between those and the challenges i mentioned i gained 3 sectors pretty quickly when i finally went back to an attack build to level crew.
while on the subject of crew, the gains from concentrating crew aren't as great initially as those from getting more crew ranks. the extra benefits from hitting both crew levels and ranks outweigh the sight loss of accuracy if you concentrated acumen first, and the progress feels faster even though it would overall be slightly slower, because it is more consistent rather than in bursts.
hope this helps

[best bulliet target]

hmm i find your syth base quite low. mabey a day of syth to get the base model add the gem for base 3 and then hav that running with minor syth crafting and then when you've gotten a good prestage value for base 3 you can then really pump that syth crafting

hav crew on the side and see how many reprints for mastery lvl and then use that as your timer to prestage. No need to wait 2-4 day timers per sleeve.

[Hidebehind]

Is that a wall? I just reached level 50 Three days ago. My run is now 10 hours long and the boss is almost dead. I don't have enough shield power to withstand one more extra shot. I have four beams and two laser cannons for support. The DPS of each beam is e57 without a shard for damage. Shield e56. I purchased all of the weapon upgrades. Generator power 6.e25 (200+ levels). E41 all types of research. Compute speed e25, Compute power 5e8. T6 (red).
Challenges: 6/9, 4/5, 4/5, 3/5.

[best bulliet target]

hav you looked at achviements like the speed run ones? they add faster ticks for more dps. they are also something you can try to grab.

and do manual castting of buffs when on the boss. it's 0.3 more speed and if your that close those two methords might add the speed your missing.