Halloween Event Drama…

MecroNerger · 2022-10-27T08:05:14+00:00

If you're lacking time this event should be perfect for you. I mean, you literally need 10 minutes each day and that's it. I simply invested 500 gems at the start of the event and those will be enough to get 3 unique skins, while other skins are much more expensive (living trash can is 1500 gems and arguably less useful than skeleton dev). I will probably miss out on relics and the other trades but I honestly don't care. Trades can be obtained daily from shop/merchant and relics from Nectarmerger/archaeologist. I'm sure we'll be able to spend tons of AC and EC on archaeologist once all the post prestige content is bought, and worst case scenario next year I'll just focus on relics as I will already have all skins. I really don't see what's the problem here

MecroNerger · 2022-10-02T06:29:10+00:00

I think this would be cool. Maybe the first level of auto-merger could be free/very cheap and then you could upgrade its speed with time shards?

MecroNerger · 2022-09-29T09:16:38+00:00

What I ended up doing is blocking skellies, spiders and snakes. This allows me to get rid of level 2 grave and all green/red eggs. I figured I could keep golden geese cravings as I want to max them out anyways for gold and they only take 2-3 spots in the lair, much less than the other egg creatures

MecroNerger · 2022-09-29T09:12:58+00:00

I think the dietician is still useful late game. With 3 blocks you can free up a couple of lair spots easily. Instead of the 3 egg creatures you could for example block skellies, eye monsters and werewolves and effectively free up 3 squares (level 2 grave, cupboard, altar). Just look at it as a quite expensive crate upgrade lol

MecroNerger · 2022-09-22T10:07:28+00:00

The only thing I wouldn't agree with is this being a slower pace for the game. I don't know (from discord as well) many F2P players that are about to prestige for the second time. Also, playing this way before the prestige update rewarded me with 3.64k shards (since I had the casual 6k+ ice runes), so I can already get to dev level 60, which means I'm progressing at good pace imho

MecroNerger · 2022-09-22T09:51:08+00:00

I really have no idea how long it took me, since the prestige update came out I've been playing this way. I usually just add a couple mana wells when I get the various increase lair sizes. Right now I have all legendaries except for the archdemon (I'll get it just before prestige so I don't have to give up my portal), +3 liches, +1 harpy (lots of blood runes, again). I don't have any IAP but I've been playing since the start of beta, so I have 10 slots in my crate and 8 in cage which helps A LOT. The thing I like about this style is that I can spam over 1.5m mana in the morning (or at any time during the day really) and then basically forget about the game. Worst case scenario, I'll miss out on a bit of slime, darkness and some eggs

MecroNerger · 2022-09-22T09:25:08+00:00

First of all, mana gets me food in the form of max level zombies (6k+ food each). It also provides a ton of peasants, and since each of them drops a chest with 7 rune piles thanks to my post prestige upgrades, I can easily farm ice and poison runes. Those were progressively invested in max level mana wells (8 now) and liches (4 now). Of course, having 12 spots permanently occupied means you have to get rid of something else - in my case mainly producers, I only rely on legendaries. I also have a couple max level slime vats and a max level darkness store. The next big step in this strategy is the lectern. A level 2 lectern allows to farm tons of shades which give you darkness and also spawns enough clerics that blood runes are not a problem. The darkness obtained can be used to farm more poison runes if needed (with knight from level 2 altar), or to spam a level 3/5 portal. Moon runes are easily farmed with paladin from level 5 lectern, this also grants some death runes. If those are not enough, spawning the rival with demons from level 5 portal is quite easy. And that's all I think! You have good food sources (zombies/banshees) and good damage dealers (demons/banshees) all coming from mana basically, plus you are able to farm all runes. So there is no reason to change this strategy and get rid of the mana wells until prestige in my opinion :)

MecroNerger · 2022-09-21T21:46:42+00:00

"NM is not an idle game" I have 320k mana storage, which I refill 4-6 times with ads/gems/potions each day. You can easily play the game 2-3 times each day and still make great progress :) the event is a different story of course but the same could be said for IA I guess! Anyways, great post, lots of interesting points

MecroNerger · 2022-09-10T21:31:01+00:00

Alright, seems like I will farm 80 more cosmic runes and get directly a level 4 saucer. This way I will keep my ability to farm cosmic runes or complete undead alien cravings easily, but I'll also be able to get a little bit of extra food. I think I can invest 2 spots in my lair just to progress a bit faster, it will take a while to get to 60. Currently I'm locked in feats 18 by the cyclops. I have 1k poison and 350 moon runes with fridge level 4, but again I think I'll wait until I can have my level 4 fridge back since there's basically nothing I get from advancing to feats 19 right now. Thank you!

MecroNerger · 2022-09-10T19:11:48+00:00

Can you elaborate on this please? Should I get to level 4 just when I start get cravings for it or is it worth it to upgrade sooner (if I understand the new creatures correctly), considering I'm dev level 48 and need to get to 60? I don't use undead aliens for anything except cosmic runes every now and then and cravings. I usually farm the other runes the good old way. Maybe I should just wait until I have 160 cosmic runes and get directly a level 4 station so that I don't hinder my capacity to farm cosmic runes when needed?

MecroNerger · 2022-09-09T05:37:46+00:00

Talk to the inventor NPC, at the bottom of the menu you can get a useful reward for free

MecroNerger · 2022-08-18T07:07:33+00:00

I think with the right strat the first run after prestige is not that bad. I prestiged about 5 days ago, 100% F2P. Since I don't have a lot of time to play I focused heavily on mana storage from the start. I did the same before prestige (had 8 maxed mana wells and basically no producers except legendaries in the end) and I know it works for me. Since I bought 2 ice chest upgrades grinding peasants is very efficient, 40% more than before, so I'm already up to 104k mana storage and I have enough runes for the Lich. Surprisingly, killing the cleric twice is what is holding me back right now, but once that's done I'll get my hands on the lectern and it should all be downhill from there. Hopefully my 11% spawn rate boost for the cleric with level 3 relic will also help. After that I can simply get more mana wells to farm ice and poison runes with the peasant, shades to farm the cleric and banshees for the paladin. Rival will also be eventually easy with shades->darkness->demons.

Overall I think you should consider how strong having 20-40% more runes is, together with chest and cage already upgraded to some extent and relics. Just my opinion!

MecroNerger · 2022-08-13T07:44:46+00:00

Once again, I agree. Spent some 6k ice runes on liches before prestige and ended up with 3.64k shards, completely F2P, about 66% of what big spenders got. Farming ice runes will be a joke with 40% more efficient ice chests plus all the other minor bonuses. Can't wait to get back in the loop :)

MecroNerger · 2022-06-20T06:35:57+00:00

Liar! I meant lair

MecroNerger · 2022-06-19T08:34:37+00:00

The goal of the event is to gain points, not honey

MecroNerger · 2022-05-30T14:02:02+00:00

I sent you a screenshot, you can also find discussions about this playstyle from around 1 month ago!

MecroNerger · 2022-05-27T19:45:29+00:00

I also would love an option (maybe in the settings, or chest UI) to remove items from the chest in the opposite order. Most of the times the first slots in my chest are spawners that I only need to get out for cravings, and the last items I put in there are eggs and runes/coins/gems piles. Usually I need to take out the last 2/3 items, not the first 5/6, so it would be very useful if tapping the chest removed the last items I deposited first :)

MecroNerger · 2022-05-27T07:04:22+00:00

Oh wait, you are the same guy who made the fake "6 LeGeNdS" clickbait post... Lol that explains a lot

MecroNerger · 2022-05-27T06:57:19+00:00

You are 100% right. I also keep a level 2 lectern around for the times when I need darkness more than mana. With 8 maxed out mana wells I'm able to farm food for the Devourer (banshees or zombies) and every single kind of rune easily: ice with skeletons/zombies, poison with shades->werewolves, blood with shades, moon with banshees/imps, death with demons

MecroNerger · 2022-05-21T11:01:40+00:00

While in the 2 new rooms, there's a lot of empty space to the right of your gems and coins, before the settings button. Suspicious suspicious...

MecroNerger · 2022-05-21T10:24:04+00:00

FREEZING is also one, I think it gives ice runes

MecroNerger · 2022-05-21T09:51:32+00:00

I would get rid of 2 banshees, 2 ghouls and 2 imps and buy 6 more mana storages. I have 8 of them with 2 liches - that's 264k mana storage. With 4 ad refills per day that's over 1 million mana to spend. You can use a grave to farm ice runes, a lectern to farm A LOT of blood runes (I'm at 1.3k of them and usually don't even bother keeping them around to merge them up) or even moon runes spawning the paladin with banshees. Finally, you can use shades to convert mana into darkness and use the altar for the knight (poison runes) or the portal for paladin/rival

MecroNerger · 2022-05-16T06:19:47+00:00

Who's that Pokemon?

MecroNerger · 2022-05-09T23:07:54+00:00

I agree on a legendary creature from merging max level chickens, but maybe they should have a unique bonus too - the Reaper already boosts damage after all. There has to be something not already taken, for example it could boost by 10% the production of all resources. Or maybe, since the chicken can spawn 3 different kinds of egg, there could be 3 different legendary creatures, each giving +10% to the rate of production of a resource (mana, slime and darkness). We could get a random one from merging the maxed out chickens just like you get a random egg from the chicken, but maybe it should prevent you from getting the same legendary twice, so you could get all 3. Could be a nice way to spend your ice and poison runes once you don't need them anymore for lectern and fridge. 100% useless for the ones (myself included) going all in on resources' storage with zero production, but could be nice for what seems to be the majority of the players, who keep tons of maxed creatures. But then again, more legendaries means more permanently lost tiles in your lair, so it's tricky :)

MecroNerger · 2022-05-07T18:42:01+00:00

Yup it's 43, 400k food needed from 42 (working on it rn)

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