Lab setup in Dilation after patch?

[SunOfNothing]

the previous meta was 50/50 between gen. and common exponent. Has anyone found a better setup after patch? I have~3500LP

[Kyouko Tsukino]

It depends on progression, actually. I used 1:5 setup and 1:3 before the update with varying results (but much better than the speed that 'meta' could give,) but now 1:4 seems to work better for me.

Since there's also dilation tree upgrades changing things for me, that setup may not work for others.

[SunOfNothing]

thanks, i'll do some more testing. I was trying to test if the first four lab upgrades were worth investing into after the patch and I couldn't find a setup better than just taking the gen and common exp.

[Elementus]

The previous meta was 1:2 not 50/50 and it's still 1:2.

[SunOfNothing]

Originally posted by Elementus:

The previous meta was 1:2 not 50/50 and it's still 1:2.

1:4 seems to be quite a bit better where i'm at

[Kyouko Tsukino]

1:4 and 1:3 are both getting me far more EP/s from one hour runs than either the "meta" or 1:2. It's a very "YMMV" thing, it seems.

[Lowkey chill guy (original one)]

i know its late probably but what i do is 50/50 until i can reach the softcap in generator and after that everything to general exponent

[Solo]

Eventually it is 0:1, so just do what works in the moment

[Polyneikes]

I am getting a "softcapped" notice for #6 Common Exponent - should I ignore that? If I respect it and put all further points into #5, I am slowly nearing 1:1

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Even when softcapped (and with thousands of points poured into it) it still overpowers most other lab upgrades, to the point 1:2 or 1:3 ratio will carry you through most/all of endgame - unless you find that going full common exponent is faster for you.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

well, according to guides on the discord and such, it seems 0:1 is the better option now after unity once you unlocked dilation.
However, before you reach dilation, 1:2 seems to be better.

[phadin]

In my first few unities I typically swapped from 1:2 in animal phase to 1:3 in dilation. Particularly early on in dilation, generators are of minimal value. By the time I had around 10unities and a bunch of DU bonus and DP gain to speed up dilation, I got to the point of just keeping things 1:2 the whole time, and eventually went 1:1 when I started automating research.

[Ninjahoernchen]

once you reach unity you will likely have so many free lab levels that the assignable ones make almost no difference in terms of ratio, so thats why everything into #6 at that point seems best.
playing with the ratio only gets somehow important again for some of the trials along the way

[Sanagi]

This is probably a lot more basic question and an example of educational failing, but...how does everyone comprehend the ratios out, actually?

Like, for instance, my understanding of 1:4 is "Hit #5's +1 once, then #6's +1 four times", or rather set the custom button to +40, then clicking that for #6, then +10 for #5, and repeating until I run out of points.

IS that actually a 1:4 ratio, though, or really a 1:5 ratio, and have I thus misinterpreted them this whole time?

[spidweb01]

Originally posted by Sanagi:

This is probably a lot more basic question and an example of educational failing, but...how does everyone comprehend the ratios out, actually?

Like, for instance, my understanding of 1:4 is "Hit #5's +1 once, then #6's +1 four times", or rather set the custom button to +40, then clicking that for #6, then +10 for #5, and repeating until I run out of points.

IS that actually a 1:4 ratio, though, or really a 1:5 ratio, and have I thus misinterpreted them this whole time?

Simple answer yes.

When you get into larger numbers and don't want to hit the buttons so much...to get a 1:4 ratio, take the total number of pts and divide by 5. Put that into the custom slot.

Example 15,000 pts/ 5= 3000. So 3000 is the "1" and 12,000 is the "4"

Hope that makes sense.

[Sanagi]

Originally posted by spidweb01:

When you get into larger numbers and don't want to hit the buttons so much...to get a 1:4 ratio, take the total number of pts and divide by 5. Put that into the custom slot.

Example 15,000 pts/ 5= 3000. So 3000 is the "1" and 12,000 is the "4"

Hope that makes sense.

Oookay, and then do the same-1 for tighter ratios; /4 for 1:3, /3 for 1:2, then...AHhhh, okay, it suddenly feels more obvious getting to 1:1 and realizing that's literally just 1/2 to both, thank you much!