NG HowTo. (for newbies)

[Cwalen]

Please do add information if you know.

Basic concepts?

The game is about ascending, ascending takes priest units (sacrificers, rastas...) multiplied by your DMC capacity (Deeper Meaning Centers.) The priests produce higgs, enough higgs allows you to ascend. It takes double the higgs for each level.

You can only have 30% of your population as priests. DMC have fairly limited impact, initally.

L 1 -10, it is so easy you cannot do anything wrong.
Waste turns and time; raiding, farming, spying. It wont make much difference.

Muck round, buy some naq and untrained units off the market.
Buy some UP. Ascend every few days or a week at most.
PM me if that is not clear enough, I'll eventually edit up this HowTo.
Come back in a few weeks time and read further.

-10---
By the time you have made it to level 10, you should have some basic concepts down pat.

Choose between growing and ascending at each level after that.
Sooner or later it will be worth sitting down and growing, so I will cover that first.

Buy UP.
Train miners.
Buy UP.

Brace yourself for a long wait.
Buy UP.

Might not be worth buying more than 30K up, but it takes some paitence to get there. Definately not worth buying more than 100K.

Buy UP.
Farm (attack other accoutns for money) (Search for xdjoker as a target) when you reach 4000 turns.
Untrain all of your miners, build as many MotherShips as you can.
Attack out your turns, or at least half of them.

Buy UP.
Brace yourself for a long wait.

@ 30 K up, with 1000 in mining and attacking technology.
You get 30 000 miners, who produce 200 million/tc, and who will be capable of being converted into 600 MS, which can raid 340000 per 15 turns.

40 market baught turns three times a week is 120.
3*48*7= 1008 a week otherwise.
XdJokers sacrifice means if someone farms you it is personal not profitable.

2 K up in 3 weeks is 420 more MS.
2000 turns of attaking later, you can afford a lot more up and wait a week or two.

Depending on how much you grow, as compare with move, you may end up with tens of trillions to protect as you start to ascend quickly.

Wealth left in the open can be stolen by others, there is enough wealth left out in the open that someone would have to target you to take yours.
Expanding your bank to protect wealth takes a considerale percentage of the reasource.

If you are rapidly ascending, a few thousand up will get you a long way, waiting for 4k turns is far too long.

Which is where my knowledge runs out and I throw the floor open to other comments.
Anyone prepared to give up some information for the newbies in public?

[JasonJay]

Weapons are destroyed in ascending.


Buy a major income tech and sit. Then when you have enough GnR convert everything to MS and farm all your turns away. If you reach 4k turns before then you're going too slow anyways

[RPM!]

At level 10 what's the difference between growing and ascending at each level after that.

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

what are the different options available during registration...
like techs and race personalities and such... what does each one do...

[Ancient_one]

I try to ascend every week around MT's reset. You can clearly do it sooner but it will cost you. Using MT's i get a high UP/income tech and I sit for a week use my income on MS techs and then at the reset train all UU to MS and farm crazily. I ve been trying to get more UP/income techs every ascension so basically I grow every one. I may sit and grow when I clearly cant keep up with ascending weekly and grow.

[Cwalen]

Been busy with work, so not exactly up to speed right now.

To refocus the thread.

Initially ascend quickly using the market to support your progress.

After level 10 or so.

512,000 higgs to get to level 11.

Assuming a 7 day goal, that is an average of 73142 higgs per day.

three times that in population required.
219 428.

Assuming 8000 levels of DMC,

P * 2 * (1 + DMC/100)
P = # of priests, up to one-third of total army size (no gain above that ceiling)

512 000 higgs /2/(1+8000/100) = 3160 priest days.
9481 population days.
1354 average over 7 days.
less than 500 Up.

Obviously shift for more UP and less DMU.

So simple for someone who has sat and grown with good UP, I will not even mention it.



At level 15.
32 times more, 14447. UP would be required. 8k DMU.

To level 18
115 583 UP Which runs up against the 100K UP discontinuity.

Obviously at this point, the Tech and the impossibility drive become far more important.

Raiding to double the value of UP, allows this curve to continue to level 19.

Sadly, for full protection (which is not really required because of the ability to use the bank, and the fact that no one can be assed farming given the massive incomes available to powerful players)
you need a 4 day pattern of ascending.

This is can be modified by ascending a few days before weeks end, then PPTing past the week turn over and PPting again in the new week, giving a 6 day full protection cycle.

Buying bank lets the paranoid amongst us protect against the possibility of someone farming away NAQ in the open.

You can pull 4, 4 day ASC's over 3 weeks before banking.



In Summary (and lets face it is is not like me to screw up the maths<chuckle>)
The how to, gives.

A few weeks to level 10
Massive UP and full income increase tech at that level, combined with time.

7 weeks from level 10 to 18. One bank buy in at level 14.

And requires an analysis of the relationship between e and tech levels to work out the total cost.

Feedback anyone?

[Master Rahl]

Sir I do believe it needs a "that was easy" botton.
[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Cwalen]

Time, patience, a little skill with maths, a lot of skill with research.

Prehpas that comes easy to you.

Personally I vacillate between wanting to perfect a "How To" Which describes a path, and knowing that so few new players will find a step by step over 9 month, thousands of logins, path, to take a minor place in the big league to be satisfying or possible.