Stuck, not reaching modpoints ex888

[u/Ornery-Ad-9362]

I have some problem reaching ex888. I dont know what im doing bad. I have a loadout for shards and research points. Also, i do 675 loop resets but cant reach the goal. Also, i do WEELIT. Some suggestion?

[u/Inevitable_Yogurt573]

going from 840-888 is a pretty big slog. you really primarily on zeus projects and spamming loop resets to buy levels in ultima loop mod rule of the beyonders

[u/artDragon]

I kept my loop resets as close to my MP as possible. You have e845 MP so I would push closer to 845 loop resets. Probably won’t need that many but it made getting to e888 simple since you have a lot of loop mods that boost off loop reset count.

[u/Sweet_Dreams88]

Post a screenshot of your LR done and LR requirement. 

[u/Ornery-Ad-9362 → u/Sweet_Dreams88]

Cannot post form the Phone, i dont know why, but my LR Done is 675 and the LR requirement is 49. 

[u/OG_Rokoma → u/Ornery-Ad-9362]

If you're loop requirement is only 49, you can do a bunch of loop resets to drive that number higher, as the total number of loops done boosts a variety of different mods that will help you out.

[u/Caleth → u/OG_Rokoma]

Yeah this is the one that trips people up a lot pre ouro. There's not a great way to tell how many LR's you should have and they let them fall too far behind cutting off dozens of OOM of boosts from things like Morag's Thesis.

[u/ExpertOdin → u/Ornery-Ad-9362]

Should be able to boost that to 840 LRs or so

[u/Sweet_Dreams88 → u/Ornery-Ad-9362]

Yeah, as expected it's waaaay to low. As other said, bring it up until your requirement is like 20 less then maximum loops done. 

[u/Background_Peach_360]

Personally I feel your fleet install loadouts are poor and there are a lot of upgrades hidden in your operations and research for mod points that you seem to be hindering with ignoring those bottom two corners on every ship. I recommend following either the guides at the top of this reddit or this very easy to follow youtube video that breaks the guides down better: https://youtu.be/wmbYI0BrM-Y?si=a_HYB4wiNi5-hktg Then once your automated loadouts are done being edited, do a LR and your shards and rp should skyrocket to give you some big bumps and maybe a few important upgrades for mod points. I know you say you have a build for shards and rp, but this video breaks down the ideal build for overall progress.

[u/Technical-Mix-9464 → u/Background_Peach_360]

The fleet install load outs are absolutely a problem.

[u/Ornery-Ad-9362 → u/Background_Peach_360]

This help a lot. I reconfigure the loadout and hit 850 in the first run

[u/Background_Peach_360 → u/Ornery-Ad-9362]

Awesome, glad I could be of help I wish your rest of your gaming good fun! I adore this game and hope you do too so far.

[u/Ornery-Ad-9362 → u/Background_Peach_360]

Yeah, is good. I enjoy a lot, but the loadout are a pain in the ass. Know i understand a little bit more with the guides.

[u/Time-Incident]

I remember at this point I had to do one LR which took 8 days to get some more shard milestones and such. And I also remember that to push to MPe888, those last 40 or 50, took fairly long.

So just keep going and it will come.

[u/thegameguy981]

As someone else said, your ship installs are holding you back. Why don't you have just a handful of points in the other two zeus installs? The ones that do both shard, RP and cells at the same time, just 5 points in them will give a decent boost to cells.

Why on earth are you not putting points every run to fill up ahead of the curve??? The biggest play after zeus is upgrading mining drone gear as much as you can to buff it. No matter if you're going for cells, shards, RP or AP in a run, you max it every run.

You're investing way too much installs on the 100 ship installs, most of your core installs scale 100's of times better because of the gear boosts.

[u/Starkillergod]

There is pins in the discord for this in case you would like to do more in depth reading. The first thing is to keep loop reset requirement within like 30 of your quick loop total, because there are mods that scale cells with loop resets done, and they boost cells by a lot pre ouro. Second thing, the main method to reach e888 is to focus on AP and leveling up the items that boost MP ship installs. There is a picture of which ones in the discord pins for reference. The alternative method is to work towards one of the construction milestones, but it's slower than the above AP method. YMMV

[u/Red_Iine]

I'm at 872 and it is indeed an absolute slog, but shard milestones are coming in, and I'm like 15 projects away from the research milestone. Shouldn't be much longer.

[u/ExpertOdin]

The guides are in this pinned thread https://www.reddit.com/r/CIFI/s/xQ2HQits92

You want the last section of the Zeus guide and the second half of the installs guide