Can't get difficulty over 500% for 'The Pace of Progress'

[Spaznetz]

I'm trying to follow quill18's playthrough for this achievement and I can't get the difficulty over 500% without selecting a stupid number of Game Rules.

Am I doing something wrong or was there a big change to this achievement since last May?

[Ericus1]

500% isn't a hard threshold to reach. Just with a harder sponsor, a harder commander, a hard mystery, and a harder colony location you can get to 500% alone. You shouldn't need more than one or two game rules to give you some flexability.

For instance, Space Y/Rocket Scientist/Marsgate/20°N 132°E is 505% alone.

[Spaznetz]

Ah, I see my problem. I didn't know that the location contributed so heavily to the final difficulty. The playthrough I was watching had 510% with just SpaceY/Futurist/Metatron/Hunger before even selecting a location. I copied those settings and only got 350% so I was a bit confused as to what was wrong.

[Bored Peon]

I have done a few 800% maps they are quite easy if you can avoid colony wide disasters.

Like I had one colony that got wiped out before i was even 6 sol into the game. Electrostatic dust storm shorted everything out in a cold area and the entire colony froze over.

After a dozen or so hard maps some of the game rules are just "game draggers" like Last Ark. All it does make the game drag on without providing any real challenge.