It becomes more and more apparent that we need more speed upgrades

[doombybbr]

all the speed upgrades are either very minor acheivements or part of the reactors first form.

You do not get increased speed after a certain point, which becomes an issue for later sectors where it takes ages to navigate from the previous base to your current highest sector. This is especially annoying on higher reinforces where the latest base is in the 70s while you are pushing beyond 95.

It isn't even difficult to reach when you are at that point as none of the earlier sectors can hurt you, just time consuming on every prestige.

I think we need a speed mult of multiple times by that point to make up for the increasing number of sectors that you have to pass through and increasing size of each sector.

[RaptorSolutions]

Are there still warp point unlocks there? Perhaps a late game/base upgrade where you can just manually warp to sectors with warp points. Maybe only on prestige like how you can do it to bases.

[doombybbr]

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

Are there still warp point unlocks there? Perhaps a late game/base upgrade where you can just manually warp to sectors with warp points. Maybe only on prestige like how you can do it to bases.

the latest base is base 5 at sector 73

[RaptorSolutions]

Originally posted by doombybbr:

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

Are there still warp point unlocks there? Perhaps a late game/base upgrade where you can just manually warp to sectors with warp points. Maybe only on prestige like how you can do it to bases.

the latest base is base 5 at sector 73

Not base. Like you know how you get the branches where you fight elite enemies to unlock new warp points?

[doombybbr]

Originally posted by RaptorSolutions:

Originally posted by doombybbr:

the latest base is base 5 at sector 73

Not base. Like you know how you get the branches where you fight elite enemies to unlock new warp points?

So you are suggesting using them to jump as a feature? Because jumps are just a band aid on the real problem which is movespeed in general

[Simbu]

I am not sure I have really needed additional speed that much. I just reached sector 99 about a week ago, and really for the past 3-4 weeks (finished the last reinforcement, and then hitting the current 'endgame') has been just a grindy slog with very little active play. Since a lot of it is just waiting for crew bio-sleeves (or other similar things, but those don't reset on prestige), I have been spending 1-2 weeks just grinding crew without doing a prestige. Every couple days I will switch between crew quarters and veil piercer.

Having a lot of extra retrofit AI items from the previous reinforces also helps a lot, and used a couple base resets... but mostly that was to prevent 50+ crew sleeves from going to waste to get something done now.

Sectors 98 and 99 are very big power swings, with several orders of magnitude between the start and the end, but even before that I often found myself grinding for 1-2 days for shards, then moving to a lower sector to grind something else, most of the movement was only like 1 minute. On a prestige, just settings the auto-sector to 1-2 less then your max sector or something worked fine for me... the setup for grinding void matter and salvage for crew bonuses, then switching to a compute build, before a more normal warp/ crew level/ synth build tended to take more time then the ship getting back to the highest sector.

I finally did the speedrun achievement to get to sector 74 from sector 1, and that did take about 50 minutes, but that was a lot of back and forth... which takes 3x longer. I guess to me starting in 73 and then spending 10 minutes after a prestige (which in the last reinforce was about 3-5 days), to move back to highest isn't a problem. It would be nice to move thru zones a little faster when backtracking or pushing, but just setting the destination and coming back in 5 minutes always works just fine for me.

[Sylv]

I could make things a bit faster, but I think I should have just not kept scaling the freaking distance. even 2x speed would take a while to get from 75-100 ><.

Its a ways but I will either compress the distances (screws with balance slightly but shouldnt be too bad), juice the speed, or think of something else

[doombybbr]

Originally posted by Sylv:

I could make things a bit faster, but I think I should have just not kept scaling the freaking distance. even 2x speed would take a while to get from 75-100 ><.

Its a ways but I will either compress the distances (screws with balance slightly but shouldnt be too bad), juice the speed, or think of something else

you could make each ship type have a speed bonus larger than the last with an extra speed bonus on reinforces

[Hunu]

Originally posted by Sylv:

I could make things a bit faster, but I think I should have just not kept scaling the freaking distance. even 2x speed would take a while to get from 75-100 ><.

Its a ways but I will either compress the distances (screws with balance slightly but shouldnt be too bad), juice the speed, or think of something else

IMO, OP is probably right. Additional speed unlocked somewhere along the line makes the most sense, especially in terms of not screwing with the balance of earlier sections. Devalues speedster a bit in the end I suppose... But I don't have it yet, maybe someone who has the achievement and skin can say how much it would upset them to make that easier?

Other idea, some kind of speed boost that only works from 73 onward, leaves speedster as it is, doesn't touch earlier in the game. Maybe like some kind of compression mechanic where your overkill damage translates into speed boosts. Means that everyone experiences 73+ for the first time as you intended, then it's a little less tedious once you're regularly reaching up to 80+ or something?

[76561199215865625]

Originally posted by Hunu:

Devalues speedster a bit in the end I suppose... But I don't have it yet, maybe someone who has the achievement and skin can say how much it would upset them to make that easier?

even without the x1.25 engine speed bonus from reinforce speedster still gives you 10+ minutes to spare

[Elgareth]

I never felt that that was a problem, because at that point, with capital ships, materials and upgrades, prestiges become much rarer than earlier in the game.