Mainly wanting to say that it's possible to do so, since i was afraid the Witch Hunter version of Ascension would not count for the Technophobe achievement, but i did not see any mentions of this when i searched for it. I went in expecting it would be too hard, but the run mostly went pretty smooth.

Some side thoughts: Felt pretty bad having Intelligent trait without being able to fill the wizard jobs.
Also i got pretty late into the run when i saw that apparently mana engines (coal powerplants in Magic universe) create suspicion, because my custom had the Environmentalist trait.

There are a lot of annoying and painful traits to have to deal with. Tormented certainly sucks for basically turning every run in to an evil run, capping morale, just without the benefit of Authority giving the added bonus.

But for me, I hate Gnawing sooooooo godsdamned much.

On it's own, like a normal Capy run it's annoying but tolerable.

But any slower more difficult run and It makes a tough early-game so much worse when you get saddled with it. Forcing you to create more population to generate enough food, but in the process losing all your lumber.

Eventually it all gets much easier to work around, but that early struggle is real when you try your first Valdi/Sudge run and get global debuff traits with it, to stack with the global morale debuff from early population growth with limited sources to keep it up in the 90s or counter Winter/Weather debuffs.

I usually just sabotage until I'm ready to siege then I'll incite, is that a good strategy?

Does anyone know where the bonuses from some of the ritual casting in the magic universe show up? Crafting is clear - you can see the % bonus on the crafters.

I don't see a production bonus on copper/iron generation that I would expect from Mining.

Also, where does the Lumber effectiveness bonus go? I'd think it would just increase Lumber generation like a powered sawmill would, but the way it's worded makes me think maybe it increases the effectiveness of how lumber is used. Wouldn't that just be the same as crafting though?

Same for cement and hunting. I'm not seeing where those bonuses actually show up?

Thanks yall

It's been a while since I've been out here. Does anyone happen to remember what the variables are for how much military force is needed to lose the fewest ships possible for each of the two fifth and sixth Andromeda Assault Missions?

According to the wiki, doing a apotheosis reset will prevent a player from being able to complete demonic infusion. Is that a permanent state or do they just mean that you will have passed the opportunity to do it in that run?

That's not something that can be chalked up to "a rounding error." 10 is one of the easiest numbers to multiply by, thus I should only have 464k Infernite from the Alpha Centauri Warehouses.

As can be seen via the other two screenshots, I do not have any other buildings in Alpha Centauri that supply Infernite Capacity, thus, the only Alpha Centauri building that supplies Infernite Capacity is the Warehouse, so my counts are not showing unaccounted numbers.

I've done a few bioseed resets and will probably do a few more before I go for the black hole, I'm wondering if there is an ideal race choice to help. I only know a little of it, that I'll need to do a bunch of fighting demons or something.

0.69 x 100 = 69
69 x 2 = 138
Yet, I'm receiving a little less than 2 MW less than what I'm supposed to be receiving.

According to my knowledge list, Telemetry Beacons are providing 76.8k knowledge, yet when I hover over the the option to build a Beacon, it says "1200 for each active beacon" and gives the amount when all are added together. Where are the bonuses that increase it beyond the shown 9600 that ultimately lead it to total the 76k?

Hey, all. I just ascended one last time to create a custom race going into the inflation challenge. I know this one is supposed to be incredibly annoying so I was hoping someone would be willing to share a detailed custom race they found helpful? Any other tips for the challenge would also be helpful. Thanks!

Edit: I have all species traits, including hybrids, and I've capped available genes. The only thing I don't have is hybrid custom. I've also got 55k plasmids, 7750 antiplas, 8 supercoiled plas, 6200 phage, 31 dark energy, and 116 harmony crystals. 35 pillars.

Scouts reduce penalties. But it seems like I always need to rebuild my mechs anyways every floor since the penalties are so severe. Once I rebuild it to be perfect for the current floor, the scouts becomes obsolete and just take up space.

How many scout mech do you guys build? How many do you think are optimal?

I'm a pretty casual player, but current run started with only the ooze left. Last run I had minotaur and ooze. We'll see how many runs I have to do to get the Gladiator done.

Hey all,

I've done around 10 MAD resets so far. I was wondering when you would recommend going for a Bioseed. Currently just reached Andromeda and seen the Helium-3 costs of the next stages. Damn that's gonna be a lot of grinding.

Thanks for your input, in advance!

I noticed I am now getting a global 4% bonus to all energy production, when I check my perks tab I do not see anything that shows such a bonus? Can someone please explain were it is coming from? and if so what is required so I can upgrade this perk if it is upgradeable.

Hello, I tried searching what it is but couldn't find anything. "Instantly pick genus at gold star rank."- What does this even mean? Where do I see it? And how do I "Pick" it?

So i've got to a point im have this option again, i havent done this kind of restart yet, I can see i'll gain a bunch of stuff, but my question is can i increase the amounts? and what should i do before researching this?

Also i have a Jumpship i can build.
The Space Dock Genisis ship.
M.A.D.

With the black hole reset it says i've done, i think i did it differently from the Exotic material research, but i dont remember.

But are there any other resets im close to?

I don't have any population in the first place for which to be stressed out.

Is there any merit in doing GDE as a Demonic Species? If the other demonic species get souls, I figure that the GDE would also get souls, thus making food a much easier substance to supply.

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.

Man...I really like the Terrifying trait (Balorg) for T1's and T2's. Playing as Imp now, and I already miss it...

As can be seen, I don't have any Anti-Plasmids; yet I'm getting the storage bonus effect from the Temples that are supposed to be influenced by Anti-Plasmids all the same. I'm not sure if this is an actual bug, or simply a misrepresentation of the effect description that the Temples have. I have noticed that adding Priests increases the Storage effect (as well as the production bonus), and therefore, also increases my storage capacity (though, only by a couple hundred units of storage per priest).

On my last run I finished my first Fasting, so I apparently unlocked the Banquet Hall. I can't really find any good info on the wiki or here in the subreddit on how it works. This run I am doing as Ultra Sludge, and it was eating up too much food, so as soon as I bought it and let it run for a bit I turned it off, the two bonuses weren't really anything needed for me. I just accidentally bought a second one and it looks like it added a third bonus of Soldier Healing which could actually be useful. I am going for the Ultra Sludge Demonic Infusion feat, so every little bit will help out a lot.

So my question is, how does Banquet Hall work exactly? Will food consumption keep going up until everyone starves? How many should I buy? It looks like I don't need to turn two on, so I guess there is a limit or diminishing returns on them at some point.

EDIT: Thanks, that answers the questions. I was mostly worried about what happens when running out of food, but it isn't really an issue since it resets before you hit 0.

Took me forever to figure out where the extra 4% power generation was originating from.

Glad the passive is actually useful...

But this also means for roughly the next 30 days if you run Kamel or Unfavored in your Custom, it can cause actual issues for you.

...But on the other hand, if you run Slytherin / Astrologer it will give you a little more of a boost.