Suddenly stuck

[rexalian2000]

I finally bashed through the 62-68 barrier and made my way to sector 73, and now i can't seem to advance at all.
I feel like i'm missing something, every avenue of advancement has completely stalled out.

Even when configuring my entire build to each function i can make no progress.
My best shard build has failed for 30 hours straight to even FIND the 71-73 shard on zone 73.
My best base build gets at most 5% progress a DAY
My crew gain maybe 2-3 new levels of their main stat and 1 of their second stat a day on average, resetting after 10 or so levels
My best synth build is 3 weeks away from even UNLOCKING the component i need for the next module upgrade.
Research build makes no appreciable increase a day
Warp core is almost maxed out, nothing left but a couple levels of void energy, several of storage and about 30 rank points scattered across the crew.

I guess my question is, what do i even focus on from here to actually make progress?
I have my 'goals' for the carrier but at current rates none of them are attainable basically for years. Clearly i need to make gains somewhere but literally none of the avenues of doing so seem to be able to make any gains.

For reference here is where i am.
Synth -> all upgrades other than carrier. All components infinite up to the ultima regulator.
All shards maxed except the 71 - 73 shard i stll cant find
research at 1e101 in all categories
all warp core upgrades except a 4 power 12 power storage and about 3-6 crew rank points for each crew
bases at 1e20 5e10 5e4 and 600.

I would appreciate any tips on what i should focus on next to break this stagnation.

[rob_s_cat2]

you should be able to comfortably sit in a compute run to max. due to the order of magnitude reduction it will take about a week, but that should help appreciably because after that you never need compute again until you get the carrier

[rob_s_cat2]

the other alternative that's viable is a crew t3 run, which will take longer than the compute run but maybe not so much for a single crew member.

[rob_s_cat2]

capping your reactor stuff in warp is also likely still on the table, but i haven;t worked out how long that will take.

remember too that even 3 levels of the base damage and shield modules will trple your damage, so that might help if you haven't done it too

[Aeon_Black]

Shouldn't take a week to get compute to 1e22, stack extra compute levels from as many sources as possible and it'll be done in under a day, it's the easiest to max.

Reactor is one of your strongest sources of gains for exponential growth until it's capped, don't sleep on Energy Technician even if you have to ignore Acumen Crew Members, makes completing S74 easier.

Everything from there is slow progress as you whittle stuff down, sometimes you'll need to hop between crew/synth/shards to get everything at reasonable rates, may take a while to figure out when each is more reasonable than the other, it's a huge wall.

[best bulliet target]

one thing about 70+ areas is about crew handling. Get 4 slots crew if you don't hav it. And then toggle auto switch stats off. then do mostly 10/40/x or 25/25/x builds when doing stuff.

and abosolutly get on your first run of the prestage, crew skills to 1.70+(void matter farming) or more. Cannot stress enough that more is better and makes life easyer.

but in the end. You wil spend hours or even a day or 2 doing one of the opjectives.

[rob_s_cat2]

Originally posted by Aeon_Black:

Shouldn't take a week to get compute to 1e22, stack extra compute levels from as many sources as possible and it'll be done in under a day, it's the easiest to max.

you'd be right if slvage redirection still gave 1e4 cap to 1.1+++, but it doesn't, it only gives 1e3 now.

[Sylv]

Another thing to check is reactor. The actor is insanely powerful in this zone and if you are not running the reactor crew you are Heavily nerfing yourself.

[ponyryov]

Originally posted by rob_s_cat2:

Originally posted by Aeon_Black:

Shouldn't take a week to get compute to 1e22, stack extra compute levels from as many sources as possible and it'll be done in under a day, it's the easiest to max.

you'd be right if slvage redirection still gave 1e4 cap to 1.1+++, but it doesn't, it only gives 1e3 now.

When did that change?
I was wondering how some people zipped through that one.

I'm 2.5 days into my compute run and I'm only just over 2e21,
Growth is accelerating so I think it will only take maybe 3 more days instead of 10, but once you have all bars green and Salvage Redirect on, I didn't think there was any point in pouring more compute power into the equation.

Am I missing something?
Should I have the Advance Computer Lab on, even though I already have over 1e17 power sitting useless?

[best bulliet target]

yes! wow check the 3rd power..

next you'll be saying you didnt put the computer shard or using it on or connected to blue.

[ponyryov]

Originally posted by best bulliet target:

yes! wow check the 3rd power..

next you'll be saying you didnt put the computer shard or using it on or connected to blue.

The third power just gives me 2e17 wasted. What's your point?

[ponyryov]

I know it seems like it makes sense to put every bit of power you can into it but my observation is that once you've buried the needle, only Salvage Redirect makes any significant difference.
Every other ability, even extra compute levels just pushes the allocated amount to 1.1 Cap+++ closer to being 1 just like all the others.

If the info displayed is misleading and I'm wrong, I'd love to know, but just implying i'm being dumb because MORE BETTER DUH is not helpful.

[best bulliet target]

no, the 3rd power in the computer lab is comupter levels gained + 0,5

if you check the stats & info computers and then computer levels gained that's the value we're trying to get to be higher.

[Hundmetall]

I am in exactly the same boat, I have my list of things I need to complete but even when I follow the guides on discord I seem to be falling well short of the targets. I don't see it as an issue though because slow progress just makes the game content last longer. I am currently trying to focus on getting the compute cap where I am at 1.15e19x towards the goal of e22x.

[ponyryov]

Originally posted by best bulliet target:

no, the 3rd power in the computer lab is comupter levels gained + 0,5

if you check the stats & info computers and then computer levels gained that's the value we're trying to get to be higher.

When I swap the Compute shard in and out, the levels gained do not show they are getting any higher.
The allocated amount to Cap+++ just gets lower.

It appears that getting more compute levels for my power is just making me require less power to bury the needle. Not actually speeding me up.

I'd love to be wrong but that is what I'm observing.

[best bulliet target]

yeah using less power is a side effect. But the idea is with the base increase from the computer lab instead of 1 x stats we're doing 1.5 x stats.

now the computer shard(blue effect) is just an other multipler we're adding.

your stats (in the stats & info [computer tab] and under computer levels gained. should be about 3k or more right?

so just by that every time we lvl up 1040 ish? it does that about 3000 times