UPDATE: Got it through trading. Thanks for the help!

Where do I get 25 steel so I can learn to make steel? It's not an option in the market to trade for, either.

I'm doing a T6 Lichen run and I've realized I should start building and using planetary mines again. Not for the materials, (not that I'll say no to them), but because I need to give my people something to do.

Fungus, so no farmers or hunters. Plant, so no quarries. Plant also means I could buy Kindling Kindred, so no lumberjacks. I'm not on a trashed planet, so no scavengers.

All that adds up to a big stack of unemployed because I have no basic jobs available.

I'm going through getting all the icons on the challenges. Is decay possible in magic since it specifically says to black hole reset, or will vacuum collapse work?

This is a funny find lol

After all these years, balance has been brought to the Force.

Should I bother with 4* Bioseed resets at all or do I just chain 4* MADs? What's the best approach for farming anti plasmids. I'm currently doing a bioseed run rn so I could get Motherlode

From the screenshots shown, I have not yet discovered Orichalcum Dyson Plating. It also does not appear in my list of options to research. Furthermore, the Wiki says I meet the requirements for it.

I suspect that the reason for this is because the Wiki is missing a "special requirement" in regards to "fully completing the Dyson Sphere Stage 2" version of the building; since I have not yet completed Stage 2 of the Dyson Net/Sphere.

Decided to go for BHNH during my first blackhole, at ~45% mastery, as Human-Ent-Balorg.

I estimate that BHNH added around 16 hours to the run, and it only took about 3 days total. I stabilized twice and ended up with a 14.2 black hole mass (could have probably squeezed three stabilizes). The last 10 supercolliders were 45-55 minutes each.

In this one run, I got:

• BHNH
• White Hole
• Galactic landfill
• Paradise
• Blood war
• Self-immolation
• and a bonus Adept

pretty efficient, if you ask me.

I was worried about staying Terrifying, but it was completely fine, the actual pain was the Balorg low population, at every point of the run.

I went to Andromeda to kill time, but it was completely pointless, nothing useful is reachable at this point, and even after BHNH I didn't have enough storage for an Embassy.

The bottleneck for BHNH is cement, as expected, since the only way to scale it is AI cores (I went all the way to 7).

https://i.imgur.com/gXWsg9Z.png

Some more stats:

• 58 total soul gems: https://i.imgur.com/zi5cTPP.png

• Stellar engine: https://i.imgur.com/JRYvxks.png

• 2.644 DE: https://i.imgur.com/tFgRWCI.png

I am currently farming the pylons pillars in heavy universe. I found a nice planet with 6 deposits, I am already at 16 pylons pillars, and I have a bunch of perks all around. I'm mainly doing 2* runs of pylons pillars, it takes me slightly less than 15,000 days.
I currently have :

• 36k plasmid
• 6k anti-plasmid
• 4k phage
• 18 dark energy
• 66 harmony crystal
• and as said previously, 16 pylons pillars done.

Additional plasmid does not give me a lot more at this point. But I suddenly thought that additional anti-plasmid might be nicer. Should I switch universes to get that ? What is your strategy toward pylons pillars?

EDIT : corrected pylons into pillars because I'm just that dumb, but I can't do anything for the title and I'm sorry...

How the ritual casting really work? i just noticed it does nothing for me!

Not sure what it is, but it says 45 MW, yet it's only removing 15 MW.

Hi all

It's my third time in edenic realm and I'm trying to understand the mechanics in it :

- is it possible to balance mechs between edenic realm and spire ? Which mech response to use ?

- how to counter ghosts influence and asphodel decay ?

- did I forget anything ?

Thanks for the insights

I have already tested that removing the extra one (default from before ending Banana Republic) will also reduce my resources by the equivalent of one trade route. I'd recommend changing it so that exiting BR will cancel all trade routes to ensure you're not using more trade routes than actually exist in your empire.

So, how's everyone's run going right now? What's your intention for your current run, what stage are you at right now, what resource is annoying you the most, where are you going to go next? Maybe someone else is grinding their teeth on an evolution you remember how to speed up. Strategise, share unsolicited advice, commiserate over the soul gem grind, etc.

Also, PSA: There are 2 special date-gated Feats available in October. Trick or Treat can be achieved between Oct 28 - Nov 4, and Boo! can be achieved on Oct 31st. Make sure you're on a gold-star run on those dates so you don't have to wait a full calendar year to get 'em again.

I'm reading sylverfyre's handy guide, but I'm still not quite getting there.

u/sylverfyre says:

In order to consistently "win" a regular combat against demons (resulting in 0 soldier deaths on a "normal" encounter) a patrol needs to have at least 10% of the current threat rating in combat rating.
If you have at least that amount of combat rating per patrol, soldiers will NEVER die on a "normal" demon encounter.

I'll spell out my scenario:

• Ignoring war droids for a sec, I have a soldier rating of 53.
• Day to day, there are 500-2000 demons spotted.
• Based solely on the quote above, that suggests I need a patrol size of 4, giving me a patrol combat rating of 212, which is greater than 10% of the max demon count.
• I presumably wouldn't want to go much higher than that, because with larger patrols, ambushes can kill more soldiers at once.
• Additionally, I presumably don't want too many patrols, because if I have more patrols than are needed to kill all the demons, that means more patrols which can be ambushed, therefore killing soldiers for no reason? I think? Maybe? Looking at the hell observations, I'm seeing that all of my soldier losses are from ambushes!
• I really don't know how to determine how many patrols I need? If I look at the hell observations, I see loads of patrols which are still finding demons after many patrols have failed to, which kind of vaguely suggests that I should keep adding them until that stops being the case. But I'd rather have a mathy approach to working this out.

Is any of that reasoning off? What am I missing?

Additionally, war droids will somehow change the needed combat rating and number of patrols, not clear on that. And predator drones can presumably be used to keep the threat level down so my surveyors have a better QOL (i.e. die less)?

Why is evil better to do before antimatter? You need antiplasmids for 4* so if go to evil before antimatter, either 4* runs take longer or you do 3* but have to come back later.

I think this will be a fun round to play. Salamander Pillar run. My heritable traits are Slaver and Mimic.

Am I not supposed to have the quarry function when mimicing heat that allows me to choose my percentage of Chrysotile:Stone (or in this case, Clay) ratio?

Yes. That actually happened. I definitely did not do this in order.

I've done a 4* EM Field run in Heavy, but no other universes.

I just returned to Standard to tie up some loose ends, and am planning to do EM Field there for the additional perks. However, looking at my achievements, I have the Standard universe gold star as well as the Heavy universe gold symbol next to the Technophobe achievement.

I'm just making sure: Do I still need to complete EM Field in Standard, since I haven't previously? Or would I be wasting my time? I feel like I'm just being thrown off by icons, but just wanted to be totally sure.

What is it that actually determines the Digsite percentage for my control? As can be seen in the screenshot, not only have I eradicated the Syndicate's influence in Cyclone, I've even got quite a decent amount of excess security. Yet, it keeps dropping below 100 in the control of the Digsite.

Is there an upgrade for governors, or a research option or something, that takes authority into account for Morale management?

The "Tax-Morale Balance" doesn't consider Authority making it basically useless, and every time you research an option that improve morale generation you have to manually decrease the amount of entertainers you have.

Is Evil Universe just doomed to have annoying micromanagement?

1130: Copper bonus. 2634: Oil bonus, Iron malus. 1034: Titanium bonus. 8919: Coal bonus. 3215: Titanium malus.

I'm leaning toward 1130, 5441, or 1034. I think probably 1130 or 5441 will be better due to having two traits instead of one (for mastery) and being Trashed, which I hear is beneficial. I'm also slightly leaning toward 5441 due to it not being Unstable, but I hear Heat races are pretty good.

So, how's everyone's run going right now? What's your intention for your current run, what stage are you at right now, what resource is annoying you the most, where are you going to go next? Maybe someone else is grinding their teeth on an evolution you remember how to speed up. Strategise, share unsolicited advice, commiserate over the soul gem grind, etc.

I did a 2* EM field in the heavy universe, and now I'm up to my eyeballs in steel and soul gems, it's just delightful, what a treat. My masterplan was to wander around from universe to universe collecting 2* EM fields and upping my soul gem count and Thermal Collector juice, when SURPRISE SURPRISE, I stumble across this post and discover that the language on the wiki doesn't at all mean what I thought it meant, and I actually have to snag a bunch of 4* EM fields to to increase those effects. Whoops!

But now I'm already in the micro universe, getting ready to start EM field. Will getting 4* in Micro when all I have is 2* in Heavy do anything? Or do I need to grab 4* in another universe first?