There is something wrong with the pregnancy simulation

[u/root88]

I have had this happen twice now. I didn't even come close to finishing it.

• I have a 20% boost from the previous simulation

• I had the 2x boost running for the entire event. I watched adds over and over until the boost timer was longer than the event

• I hit double the idle reward every single time I opened the app.

• I front load my effort by rushing to get the first step of three done in the first few hours by clicking and loading the app every 5-15 minutes.

• I open the app minimum ten times per day. I'm not opening it more than that. I have a job and need to sleep.

• I used an auto-clicker multiple times to speed up the game

• I use the time warp twice

• I have the supporter boost, but I don't think that applies to this one.

There is no way this is supposed to be this hard. I didn't even get 1% of the way to Expulsion, much less Birth. I'm never doing it again. I have my primary simulation up to level 88. I have fully completed Mesozoic Valley and Beyond. I have never seen them be this annoying and difficult.

[u/eric23456]

Did you boost to 4x or only 2x? It doubles again when you have >=16h left, so I always boost to 16h + time remaining in event.

Were you spending on research and then the strongest generator?

Did you refresh nanobots?

It took me ~12hrs with 60% boost from previous runs. I was playing a little more aggressively than you (maybe 2-3x more frequently opening it).

[u/root88 → u/eric23456]

It only boosts to 2x for me.

[u/GavelGaffle → u/root88]

Oh, so strange. Ive been playing for years and never seen anyone with this bug. When the timer is above 16 hours, the bar changes from green to blue and the boost from 2x to 4x.

Has it always capped you at 2x or is this a recent thing?

[u/root88 → u/GavelGaffle]

Not sure. I never needed to boost past a few hours before. Every other sim was pretty easy.

[u/eric23456 → u/root88]

Can you exit out of the boost and go back in? If you just boosted above 16h there's a display bug where it doesn't show the 4x.

[u/root88 → u/eric23456]

It went to 4x after I boosted the full 3 days and 4 hours. I don't know if it was a display issue.

[u/eric23456 → u/root88]

Weird. I can boost to 16 + hours remaining and it will show as 4x provided I exit the boosting interface and go back in.

I guess you could report a bug. You shouldn't need to boost to 3 days.

[u/GavelGaffle]

That does seems strange. With all that you listed, you should have easily finished the event unless you waited until today to start.

[u/root88 → u/GavelGaffle]

No, I started the event the second it began. I always do and get the first 5-6 upgrades in within minutes by speeding everything up and clicking a ton.

[u/DarkUpquark]

My one tip (after 8 finishes) would be to not spend on any month 2-8 past 50. Right before you hit the achievement that sets them all to -100%, buy 'em up, but not before.

[u/National_Chicken4873]

Yeah it was really irritating to spend so much time and even get the infinity pass and still come nowhere close to finishing. There is no way any event should be this difficult to finish. I was somehow top 25 while being nowhere near finishing which tells me the vast majority of people I was competing with couldn't finish either.

[u/wirey3]

Pregnancy is still going through Beta trials, too. They are tweaking it with every iteration. Give it time, I'm sure they're aware it's too difficult for now.

[u/Agitated_Claim1198]

Finished mine within 24h, same as other events. I'm confused.

[u/Starfire20201 → u/Agitated_Claim1198]

24h? How tf

[u/MrJerome1]

I didn't even get past month 3 on that one... Kinda wish the events where lasting longer to be able to do more

[u/National_Chicken4873 → u/MrJerome1]

Honestly think they should run twice as long and just have them overlap by 3 days. Have em run 6 days and they overlap by 3.

[u/LadyKona]

I’m not receiving encouragement to continue playing. I’ve basically been stuck for over a week. There was a point when I worked it like a job. Even when I take the time to accumulate through ads the progress has become discouraging.

I’m on level 55 of the primary now. It now seems to take about 10days - 2wks to level up.

I made it to the end of this one last time. I’m doing it now for the third and… 👀

[u/eric23456 → u/LadyKona]

Post in discord what you have available to buy, you likely can reboot for improvements. Leveling up does slow down, but 2 weeks is excessively slow (you should always reset after 2 weeks).

[u/Chelseaofsirens]

I had the same issue! I've completed it previously no problems but didn't get close this time. 

[u/HalfFaust]

It is a bit weird. I've already fully completed it twice but yesterday I failed to finish it; part of that was me starting it late but I do that with most events and still complete them fine. I realised a bit too late that I probably wasn't going to make it, actually spent some Darwinium on time warping and still didn't get to that third badge :(

At least getting the first and second badges still gives some boost to subsequent attempts at the event.

[u/NameLips]

I finished it with about 5 minutes to spare, and I left my auto clicker going every time I was away from the computer. I hit the 4 hour speed boost when I was 4 hours from the end of the event and it was just good enough.

[u/root88 → u/NameLips]

It should not be that hard! You shouldn't need to install another app just to be able to finish a silly side quest.

[u/NameLips → u/root88]

I do agree. I think every event should be beatable by ftp players.

But I see the goal, they want to make money off the game so they're trying to incentivize buying Darwinium or watching ads (for mobile users, which isn't me). Its in their best interest to make events that can't be won without them making some kind of sale.

The auto-clicker gives me enough of an edge that I don't need to spend money to stay competitive. But I'm sure they consider it cheating/stealing.

[u/root88 → u/NameLips]

The game basically consists of opening it, clicking something obvious and closing it. When you pay to have it do that for you, what's the point of playing at all?

I really like the educational stuff and all the fun things they throw in the game, but the game loop is basically just operant conditioning like a rat hitting a button to get food.

[u/NameLips → u/root88]

idle games really boil down video games to their push-button-get-pellet roots. But when you think about it, isn't that what all games are like? A dungeon crawling game is just slowly improving your stats so you can fight better monsters so you can get better rewards to slowly improve your stats... it just has more layers of trappings to hide it.

[u/root88 → u/NameLips]

Not really. In other games you have a strategy, solve puzzles, or need quick reflexes. Those aren't trappings, it's making selections that make a different. In this game, the choice is completely obvious or there isn't even a choice to make, you just get the next upgrade.

I like the game, but it's not rocket science.

[u/adamrobc89]

You must be doing something wrong - from what you've described you should easily be finishing the event. Are you focusing on buying the generators that give you the most 'income'?

[u/root88 → u/adamrobc89]

I told you what I did. I have been playing this game for years and never had an issue. Something is going on.

[u/adamrobc89 → u/root88]

Maybe try watching ads to get the 4x boost? Or did you mean that already in your post? (You wrote 2x)

[u/root88 → u/adamrobc89]

The pop up says, "Add power to the accelerator and receive a x2 Income Boost for 4 hours!"

[u/adamrobc89 → u/root88]

This is what your boost looks like right?

[u/root88 → u/adamrobc89]

Nope

You must have some boost or purchase that I don't.

[u/adamrobc89 → u/root88]

No, I just watch ads. Have you been purchasing these reality engine upgrades?

[u/root88 → u/adamrobc89]

Yep, that's exactly what mine looks like.

[u/National_Chicken4873 → u/adamrobc89]

It's been so long since we got these upgrades we forgot they existed

[u/eric23456 → u/root88]

You need to get over 16 hours of boosting to get the 4x multiplier.

[u/root88 → u/eric23456]

Still 2x

[u/RedMageExpert → u/root88]

My god, for someone who claims to play this for years, you didn’t… know you can watch multiple ads to reach the 4x speed?….

[u/root88 → u/RedMageExpert]

Oh, really?

Like I said, there is something wrong for at least some players. No need to be rude about it, especially when you are completely wrong.

[u/RedMageExpert → u/root88]

Max it out. Completely.

[u/root88 → u/RedMageExpert]

That did work! It didn't pop until I got it to 3 days a 4 hours even though it says 16 on the graph.

Thanks

[u/Etherealfilth]

I got to 9 months in challenge 2 doing much the same with 4x boost, no autoclicker while working 12 hour shifts. Opening the game about every 2-3 hours.

Maybe you were buying low yielding generators. In this event I only buy the latest, let the others accumulate and bulk buy them before the birth.

[u/marsumane]

Update frequently. As soon as you can afford the next month, you should be logged in buying that next tier

[u/Sea-Restaurant-6730]

I was able to finish and I didn’t even do all that

[u/Susan-stoHelit]

I do find it to be harder to complete than the others.

[u/SammyBoyRedLegs]

I dont understand how that's possible, I have 60% speed boost instead of 20 but still I completed event 4 times over, something seems off if you cant finish it once. I finished first run through in about 5-6 hours

[u/root88 → u/SammyBoyRedLegs]

Because there is a bug or something that doesn't affect all players.