Are promotions worth pursuing after lvl1000?

[bigbluebuttonman]

I have 3 stars right now, and I'm trying to get all the generators online and spend the IP on star upgrades.

I'm trying to somewhat automate the infinity process, so I can just not bother looking at it, and automating promotions is part of it. I want my auto-promote to just get them out of the way, because it seems like they don't really do much at lvl1000+, being more of a hindrance than a help, but the automation for it that I have setup that guarantees getting to that part, also ends up promoting when I don't really need it to

I'm sure that later parts of the game will make the promotions better, but right now, it feels like it softcaps at around lvl1000? Promotion 1 and promotion 2 seem like the best, but ascensions naturally get better over time, and promotion 1 is made largely redundant by the generator chains.

[LaTronn]

i set my promotions to 20 levels 1 second and it got me through that section of the game, until you get 10 animals. id reccommend this setup.

[spidweb01]

I never saw a reason to turn the auto's off at that point. Set them anywhere from lvl 10-20 and it works fine with prestige 1000. I think the added boost allows for faster IP gains for longer runs. The reset of prestige is recovered very quickly. If I remember right, the biggest thing at that point is to have your total challenge times less than 5 secs and do 20+ minute runs and you should be able to buy star upgrades and multiple generators every time.

[bigbluebuttonman]

Originally posted by LaTronn:

i set my promotions to 20 levels 1 second and it got me through that section of the game, until you get 10 animals. id reccommend this setup.

What was your prestige setup? I set it for 1000x increases.

Originally posted by spidweb01:

I never saw a reason to turn the auto's off at that point. Set them anywhere from lvl 10-20 and it works fine with prestige 1000. I think the added boost allows for faster IP gains for longer runs. The reset of prestige is recovered very quickly. If I remember right, the biggest thing at that point is to have your total challenge times less than 5 secs and do 20+ minute runs and you should be able to buy star upgrades and multiple generators every time.

I have a total challenge time less than 5 seconds, yeah. Maybe I'm just not getting the numbers, but the promotion gains presented after lvl 1000 just seem pitiful.

[Thanatos]

Prestige 1000x at 0.01 seconds is what I used until you lose the reset.
15 levels at 2 sec in 2-1-4-3 order is what I used for promote, as at 1 sec it was too slow on startup because it would reset too often. Once you lose the reset penalty you put 1 level 0s for all of them.

To get the challenge time down, fix infinity and test turning the auto prestige off. For some of them it'll finish faster without you resetting due to the lap speed.

[bigbluebuttonman]

Originally posted by Thanatos:

Prestige 1000x at 0.01 seconds is what I used until you lose the reset.
15 levels at 2 sec in 2-1-4-3 order is what I used for promote, as at 1 sec it was too slow on startup because it would reset too often. Once you lose the reset penalty you put 1 level 0s for all of them.

To get the challenge time down, fix infinity and test turning the auto prestige off. For some of them it'll finish faster without you resetting due to the lap speed.

I have my infinity challenges at 3.89s, the hold up is challenge 1 and challenge 6, with the low lap speeds.

[Thanatos]

You won't be able to increase the base lap speed further until you get the animals that do it.