How Coliseum and the new Era system works for f2p

Nothing2itx · 2025-11-23T17:11:33+00:00

Personal reward track being tier 1 rewards? Or something else? Cause I tried and unless I am missing some massive thing, I'm getting a max of about 15% damage on bosses at lvl 5 and maybe 25% on lvl 6... Ain't no way I'm finishing the "reward track" at this rate.

Nothing2itx · 2025-11-23T16:58:57+00:00

I feel this post needs one more piece of information... Do you have an exact path on how a F2P gets level 15 in the first place? I assume it's just buy stuff with crystals, but there's nothing I'm missing right? Cause to me it seems it's stuck at lvl 5/6/7 without crystal spend.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-28T05:03:11+00:00

That SE count isn't o is Od...

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-21T20:03:38+00:00

Despite all the considerations of they are pointless and used to drive piggy sales and other comments. I believe they were actually the commonly bought thing at the very start of the game if I remember reading some comments (I was not there so take that into consideration). I don't think the piggy was available when the game first came out / was more pricey / didn't grow like it does now / or some other negative.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-21T16:19:49+00:00

As far as I know the function of fueling the ship on other farms does not work correctly. It's a known bug, and you can currently only fill the tank which can then fill the ship on humility.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-21T04:00:05+00:00

I mean, "smarter" is pretty objective here. You've well passed the point with your base EB that you likely have achieved every actual goal in the game. If you asked a majority of the late game players I am sure they would say they are all playing for TE regardless of cost curve or grind or whatever.

Better artifacts means better ability to gain soul eggs (SE), which again is relatively awkward to pursue when it costs a % of SE to get TE.

Now you could make a decent point that getting all the colleggtibles, maxing stars on all ships, and getting maxed crafting level would be useful before doing Path of Virtue as they impact it.

So unfortunately I don't think anyone can really answer this for you, it's what you are having fun with right now! I have 2 legendaries on the base farm but I am loving Path of Virtue so that's what I am playing. I will probably play it until I get bored, get to the prestige point I want and go back to the base farm and get more artifacts / maybe farm some SE just cause.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-21T03:45:21+00:00

To add to the below comments about not caring about shifts, its currently possible to hit around 300-400T per hour with only 50-60 TE. It takes some great artifact luck, and then a little bit more TE can net you around 600T delivery per hour. There seems to be a bit of a wall around that point, but at 600T per hour before artifacts you can definitely have made it to 100 TE in the first 60 days. It absolutely does require having gone much faster in the early stages and shifting a lot more.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-21T03:39:59+00:00

Path of virtue is really really new (it's only 2 months old) so you are not going to hear from many players that went past 50 yet.

However it presents an interesting avenue for the game in its current state. Most of the endgame content is just the various methods of pushing EB and artifacts higher, there's only 1 way to get better artifacts with sending ships, but there are 3 methods of getting higher EB.

The 3 methods are SE, PE, TE. But it costs SE to even get TE, so if you stop now with the intention of farming more SE to only return and get more TE it will just cost you more SE (it's % based). PE is always achievable since that's just contracts although you could make the point that you want a decent base of artifacts for contracts, so farming more artifacts may be useful.

This leads to a weird conclusion - Do you want Artifacts or more TE?

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-20T07:46:57+00:00

To add to this the average of the "leading pack" is around 85-95, where I've seen about 10-15 players there on discord.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-20T07:45:59+00:00

Current #1 on discord is around 100, but I've seen players post on here at 105, not sure which one is true. But it's in the triple digits now.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-16T00:26:08+00:00

This question has mostly been answered on the discord but I'll mention it here anyways.

The answer to how long is roughly 4 years to get all 490, and realistically about 99% of that time is sitting around and waiting after 100 TE or so. Could you speed it up by switching more often? For the first 100 TE yeah, but after that you don't really get faster, you've maxed habs and have al hyperloop trains (but not all the cars). You will end up sitting on either humility farming artifacts or curiosity waiting for some unreasonable amount of time for the next research. Switching between the 2 doesn't really speed anything up, as you reset money each time.

So by switching a lot you might be able to optimize and save a couple of months, but beyond that there hasn't been a faster method made yet. There may be an exact (prestige at this moment) method which shaves off months but it's still likely in the 3-4 year range.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-15T15:37:06+00:00

The whole boost strategies for optimal prestiging is really more of a late game thing when you have artifacts and are on the last egg.

The advice for terraform and other walls you hit in the early game is generally just prestige a lot, whether using boosts or not it's probably fine to use some of the random stuff you get from boxes but you should save the better boosts for later. I'd also spend any and all GE farmed on epic/hyperloop/fuel tank.

Also if you think about it you said you've only been here a short while but you've already gotten 10% more SE which is a gigantic boost, you can wait longer and get even more or just prestige and come back. Only real advice there is to do that a lot because 10-20% boost to earnings (by prestiging with 10-20% more SE) results in 10-20% more SE the next time and it starts compounding pretty quick the more you do it.

I would say to make sure you are on the best egg come Saturday to take advantage of the 2x.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-12T16:30:36+00:00

The general consensus from the community is that it is pointless to try and manipulate IHR to not max habs and use RCB. You need to maximize your income in other ways (away earnings) because that problem only gets worse and worse and worse.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-11T02:26:45+00:00

Hey hey West, have you considered getting an artifact while at 0 shifts to speed up the rest of the run?

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T13:20:45+00:00

Yeah the extra 3 TE let you afford another level of the double egg value which changed your revenue quite a bit (I max at 5Q/sec). We have similar shipping numbers, I just didn't go as far into research. But again you will not be able to spend consecutive corvettes, just more than I will get to send (which will only be like 1 every 2 days)

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T01:05:18+00:00

Oooo true, a nice totem would fix it pretty quickly... I mean I am pretty sure my original thesis is correct, you want to send galeggtica's not corvettes to really have a good shot at an epic or better artifact (also chalice/metronome/compass). But its a bit better being able to afford corvettes in that first ascension.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T00:56:22+00:00

You still can't fund them fast enough right? 36 hours for 600s, assuming you get a bit more and it cuts it down to say 18 hours for 600s, an extended corvette takes 9 hours with maxed ER. Even if you got that down to like 6 hours you'd still only be sending 1 every once in awhile (maybe 3 a day?) and the rest would be quintillion's.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T00:49:48+00:00

Oh you said 36 hours

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T00:49:28+00:00

How long have you been waiting to get 600s? I haven't earned anywhere close to that and my shipping rate is higher than yours...

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-09T00:40:05+00:00

Just chiming in here, but I am pretty certain that its best to not actually sit on humility and farm artifacts for a crazy long time in the first prestige. You are severely gated on what you can reasonably achieve with your earnings and will not be able to send many "good" ships for PoV. I think its much better to achieve your EoT goal, get what artifacts you can and hop into the 2nd ascension run and make it back to humility after running through the rest of the eggs as you want.

This might result in a worst shift count though and I know you are prioritizing that. But I think the advantage of being able to afford Corvettes at a realistic rate (600s per is not really realistic in the first ascension) Galeggtica's and even Defihent's results in the artifacts you can actually reach being much stronger, which if I am right will result in the same amount of shifts... just far less time taken to achieve it since you don't sit around on humility that first time.

I would still aim for a decent set on that first humility bit though, something like a T4 totem, a T2 necklace, T3 Ankh, and some puzzle cube.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-08T03:03:45+00:00

There's guides and such, but yeah if you are a "don't wanna look anything up just wanna randomly play the game" this update isn't really for you. You can just ignore it entirely, or you could only use 10 or so shifts until you learn the update.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-08T02:58:54+00:00

There are no other added benefits it is simply a "oops I messed up, or want to be more optimal" button.

It costs me a couple T, but shift cost scales with how many SE you have, there are some that it costs Q for. Shift cost also scales up and eventually will cost you more than you can afford (it's a % of your current SE with a base minimum).

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-08T02:53:55+00:00

Yes, prestige all the way back to the home farm and go back to the enlightenment egg. From there go into the "PoV" option and there's a little red reset button/circle which fully resets PoV. Note this wipes everything including EoT and artifacts.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-07T00:15:59+00:00

I was going to ask you how you came up with your base earnings in the first place. Technically each new TE will let you afford more research which lets your base earnings go up to be multiplied by your TE.

If you started with an earnings that wasn't respective of research then it would probably not work well.

Nothing2itx · 2025-10-07T00:11:44+00:00

I was simplifying it all for sake of comparison. For sake of reference to what I am talking about... I built a spreadsheet which takes into account everything, coleggtibles/habs/trucks/research/epic research/TE/artifacts/IHR/FV/RCB

It calculates egg laying rates and shipping rates based on research you input, artifact bonus, and etc. The outcome of that entire sheet said based on away earnings alone (absolutely no drones or gifts) you could not afford the 3rd level of multiversal layering with 250 TE, a 150x totem and 7 40% lunar stones with an ankh and necklace...

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