maximise reinforcements

[Solid Spoon]

hey so i noticed my first gen i had 4 kids and for a while i ahd 4 reinforcement points, then at some point it hopped to 8.
can this be replicated so everytime i have children i can get 2 reinforcement points per child?

[Bubba Fett]

That happened to me once, but I thought it was a bug. I had an adult out exploring that had 2 kids with him when he got killed. Before I went and got the kids, I had 8 reinforcement points and after I got them back to camp I was back to 6 points.
It's like it was counting that the tribe had 6 kids and also counting the 2 in the wild again.

[Solid Spoon]

weird, yeah when i noticed i had 8 i passed generation straight away, i think it might have been since i moved camp as that was the most recent thing i did and was in one of those viable habitats, i might try that again before passing my second generation and see if i can replicate it.

[Vosu]

I got 12 points at some point but then it went back to 6. Wonder what I did.

[Solid Spoon]

well i tried settling at a new place but that didn't work, i really want to know how to maximise the reinforcements.

[ImSexyAndiNOED]

One reinforcement point per kid and you also get 2 points when you discover a crashed meteor. I don't think there's another way to get more points.

[Solid Spoon]

ah ok, thank you, maybe you get more for finding more things?

[Solid Spoon]

yeah so far i have found nothing else about how to maximise reinforcements.

[Seems]

How do you actually assign reinforcement points? When I go to the Generation page, only 1 of my 5 completed neurons can be reinforced. The cursor simply doesn't do anything when I scroll it over the other 4, and I still have 7 reinforcement points to spend.

[Solid Spoon]

it's for when you are going to advance time to grow the babys into adults. you reinforce then (with keyboard) press spacebar and that moves ahead of time, as for reinforcing nodes, you need to do it for each node along the line that has been discovered.

[Solid Spoon]

so i confirmed that meateorites give an additional 2 points to reinforce, i collected 2 and have an additional 4.
i hypothesise that wouldn't it best in a min max scenario to gather every meateorite first to maximize nodes as to not continuously fill them all out?

[Bubba Fett]

Is this every time after you collect them, or just the first time you advance a generation after finding them?
I'm guessing just the generation that found it since I found the one in the swamp but I seem to be maxed at 6 reinforcements. (unless someone needs to be holding it when you advance)

[Solid Spoon]

no, i put them on the gorund, it is every time you collect a meateorite you get an additional 2

[keithemp]

To maximize reinforcement points you will want 6 children with you when you discover a meteorite. You automatically get 6, one for each of the children. Then you will get an additional 1 reinforcement point for each child that was nearby to witness the discovery of the meteorite. There are enough meteorites that you should be able to space out their discovery to maximize your reinforcements from generation to generation.

What I typically do is I advance one generation while simply exploring new areas, and thereby unlocking new traits in the gene tree. Then, after I've advanced one generation, I have 6 children, then go out with 3 adults and the 6 children to discover a meteorite. Once I have my 12 reinforcement points, I go back to camp and advance another generation. I then have 6 more children, and advance in evolution at that point.

You can repeat this process over and over for each meteorite, and before long, you'll have locked in many of your traits, making future generations stronger.

[Windows 10 is Horrible.]

do the points automatically spend?

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by Windows 10 is Horrible.:

do the points automatically spend?

You spend Reinforcement points on the Generation screen (second screen when you access "Evolve" at a sleep spot) before you Change Generation.