Unlocking scarlet

[Bhauk]

my diamonds don't double in a day anymore

I'm at 7qa and I only get 1qa a day

is it supposed to take weeks to get her?

I'm stuck on knowledge as well, it's gonna take 1qa diamonds to upgrade my diamond or building value anymore

what am I supposed to do? It's gonna take weeks at this rate

[Volv]

Strategic loot use is the answer. As well as keeping knowledge up to date.

For reference: before Scarlet (and by around 18Qa diamonds) II had got to lvl 4 idle. Lvl 8 click (in preperation and lvl 15 Shrine.

[Volv]

Straight copy of a post I made on the Kong forums for someone coming up to 1Qa diamonds

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Are you using Audrey? autocasting 2 and 3 when idling.

How is your research?
Your best building should be Barracks, followed by either Guard Tower or Shrine depending on if you have bought the +500% Sacred Relics upgrade yet.

Make sure Idle, Barracks and Guard Tower/Shrine researches are as high as you can possibly push them.

Once they are as high as you can then use some loot for knowledge. In one run with Apollo blessing active use skills 1,2,4,5,7,8,9. Then use 1,2,4 again as soon as possible. Will get almost two rounds per loot use.
You should now have mega knowledge.
Use it to push Idle/Barracks/2nd building as high as possible again.
Then optionally repeat another time.

Now you are in a position to do the same for gold. Ensure you have all the x25 levels you can reasonably afford while idling. (and the highest 100 all buildings you can).
Now for gold run 2,3,5,6,8. Optionally 4 and 9 if you can fit them in / afford them. Get another round of 2,3 in before loots end.
Be prepared to buy more rounds of 25x buildings as they become affordable.

Rinse, repeat.
Don't be scared to use loots. The trick however is to use them sparingly as you will need loads later on as currency for Midaeum. Which is why theres some groundwork before I suggested using some.

Also assumed you are keeping your diamond researches as up to date as possible.

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[Bhauk]

shrine is my #1 building at 80%

I have helm of apollo and clock of morpheus at max upgrade

I can't get anymore diamond researches because they all cost 1qa

[Volv]

You said you are at 7Qa? Save up the gold required to upgrade all 5. Do them all in your current run and then reset. Would be my first step.

[Bhauk]

wouldn't that set me back? I'm only earning about 1qa diamonds a day

[richttaylor]

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wouldn't that set me back? I'm only earning about 1qa diamonds a day

When you're at a phase like that and going nowhere you're better of either running them all in a row or running a few and resetting and running the rest and resetting. I ran one at a time and reset right after buying each one, to get the diamonds back and keep growth up, and still saw my diamond's grow between each round of diamond research. With only one set of loot used, I still managed to get to scarlet within 6-7 days of starting the game so you have some research you can be putting in to either your top earning buildings or the diamond researches you're missing.. sometimes you're missing a key upgrade as well when you're stuck that will double your output, getting all buildings at or above the same x100 level.

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[Bhauk]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, scarlet in 6-7 days? I've been playing longer than that... I really don't get what I'm doing wrong

you're saying I should spend 2/7 of my total diamonds to get the upgrades?

[Bhauk]

here's some screenshots http://imgur.com/a/z6qZb

[richttaylor]

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♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, scarlet in 6-7 days? I've been playing longer than that... I really don't get what I'm doing wrong

you're saying I should spend 2/7 of my total diamonds to get the upgrades?

This game is a bit different from some other idle games. You don't actually spend them. As soon as you soft reset you'll get them all back.

Volv, above, got to Scarlet in 77 hours.. I was actually rather slow in the world of things due to being tight with raid loots.

[richttaylor]

I would go with Volv's advice. You have enough cash to run all five of the researches and then reset.

You're also missing a massive income boost by not raising the last building. You can for sure get to 300 all building levels and very likely 400 all which would 2x and then 2x again your income.

[richttaylor]

Also, do the idle knowledge upgrade available asap (the hour glass). That will be another 25% or so boost to your income.

[Nico]

I started playing this game 10 days ago, and I needed exactly 7 days to reach Scarlet. The 35 gems, wich were enough to let me buy the epic upgrade wich gives 100% profit and knowledge was pretty useful. Since you have 49 rubies I think you may didn't bought it yet, you really should do it, it is a nice boost.

And about the rest:
First the most important thing wich richttaylor already told you: Every time when you have 100,200,300 of all buildings you get a 100% boost, wich means if you get your Merchant's Guilds up to 500 you suddenly have a x2^3=x8 or a 700% booost.
2. Try to only buy buildings in 25 steps, because only at these tresholds they get important boosts of 50%
3.Read the description of the diamond researches and the artifacts more carefully, since they would have told you that you get your diamonds back in your next run.
4.Don't forget to use the blue stones to increase your profits by 200% and upgrade the most important skills and raid loots. And also increase Knowledge gain a bit after that. Before Scarlet research time isn't that important.
5. Don't forget to upgrade the idle and click profit research. And yes, you will need the click profit research.

And if you gained all of these important profit multipliers a run with all 5 raid loots active should give you a nice amount of diamonds.

[Malakauth]

I wish I had noticed the note about getting the diamonds back before you said something. Thank you so much.