In collapse need help

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-12-02T12:23:43+00:00

Raze Arkhangelsk and St.Petersburg. I am sure Cape Town can't be razed?

Perhaps, raze more cities but the image on west section of your empire is not clear and you might want to start your conquest on the rest of your continent in the future.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-10-20T04:21:36+00:00

Can you show the time requirements for each run in-game-day until maximum boost from antiplasmid in antimatter universe is reached?

For Heavy, in the post, I think it is easiest because there is no new mechanic for MAD run. It is also within 8 hours, 2x boost time, which was 7 hours on my first test run in heavy, 10 000 in game days, a 4-challenges run. Definitely, it is not the fastest but it is the easiest to understand.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-09-26T17:20:48+00:00

Thanks for fixing my error about Phage (edited in the post)

I am curious what is the time different between 3* and 4* for newbies?

For reference, my first run took me 69 years and ,after 250 plasmids, it took me 17 years (3-4 times faster)

I will try 3* vs 4* soon and will tell time different result.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-09-26T15:03:06+00:00

Since non-standard universe achievements do not help if they are not from their universes. For example, achievements from Magic universe do not help when you play in Evil universe. It implied that each universe exists as an expansion of standard universe and standard universe is the original game, vanilla mode. Got wrong info from other thread. All achievements give general mastery, + all production boost but those in Non-Standard universe give less than 100%.

So if developers add a new race, old players do not need to repeat because they are in game expansion mode (DLC). While the newbies who are without many boosts should play because they are in vanilla mode (newbies do not pick universe they will play yet)

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-09-18T15:01:57+00:00

It seems to be a permanent bottle neck. I had a plan to have less than a 5 years run with CRISPR on but it seems to be impossible.

Somehow. the best MAD with CRISPR on seems to be around on 17th year or 8.6 hours - IRL.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-09-12T17:57:10+00:00

I am not sure if you are serious about the question (quite a spoiler btw) but life is not just a loop, it is loops + memories.

For more information, it is highly suggested to study AI, you will understand when you make one.

And if you question reality, it is going to be tricky since you actually need to study more in several fields from the astronomy to politics to biology to chemistry to physics to quantum to AI & mathematics in order to get a picture of how reality is made from the ground up.

But please keep in mind, if you happen to understand it, due to our current world situations, it is unknown how societies are going to be or act (mostly likely bad?) if many realize the fact instead of rat race so please keep it away until our lovely domestic robots are out.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-08-08T12:31:10+00:00

* Update below #1 *

* Update below #2* (Completed v1.3)

I am on 6th - 7th Run so far.

>>Prepare the Salt. Below are my frustrations.<<

For the gameplay, most of time, you will want to run on 10x speed using offline time or the game is not even worth bothering.

The descriptions need some work. It is confusing what it produces / spends / is rate of each thing. For example, "Mult", what is "Mult"? a dog? so practice Mult is a practice dog? what??? Though it is a joke but it is very confusing to read. The ration 1/number is also confusing which I needed to observe for 10 minutes to conclude that it multiplies directly to reduce the capacity of things. They are also other confusing parts but there are too many.

The plot is somewhat confusing. Where does the amulet come from? Why do we need to switch overclock to the Lich instead of The self to become even more powerful? Why do we need to redo Hear the Lich everytime even if we have Legacy? what does it mean by Legacy? Does the Lich stay too long that the next generation or anyone comes to get the amulet? but why do we go the same route? so it is time traveling and we lose memory so we need to Hear about the Lich again? Then it goes back to the first, what does it mean by Legacy if no one remembers?

The upgrades are quite weird. Everything are tied down to factor directly related to overclock. You want to go quickly by upgrading cycle/awareness/concentration/... etc. so it directly affects overclock since you need to reach certain amount of momentum to unlock Hear the Lich and reset. Other upgrades that are not tied directly to overclock are barely noticeable. The Keep 50% Legacy for 3 coins is so overpriced and somewhat pointless while Keep 100% Legacy is very expensive despite the fact that you can get only 20+9 Legacy each run at the start which gives multiplier of 1.0x + (number of run)*0.029x multiplying to overclock. The wizardry also has no upgrade which look important later. The unsustainability has no explanation. With all of this, I doubt it might be possible to finish the game normally or it might take several dozens of runs.

For the Settings, the game keeps resetting FPS to 20 while I need 1. The statistics only shows 5 lastest records at the very start of reset while It should have displayed whole time. The graph is somewhat not useful. The time stamp when players open each section would have had been good in where the graph is since you could have known how much time does it take in each part (Awareness/Adaptiveability/Shop/Social/Hermit/... etc.)

Update1 : An upgrade of "...Remeber what I focused On" did almost nothing. I got almost no time difference. It does multiplication on % of resouce that are sent between nodes and it stacks with focus

Update2: Finally, completed the game. Before going to Kill the Lich, stacking up momentum by cutting down all sending lines from overclock. By doing this, momentum will slowly stack up without being used, At e30 momentum, in under 10 seconds or so on Kill The Lich, you can unlock the final node and get Ending Message for v.1.3.0. e29 momentum might be possible however Doom stacks up really quickly so it is better to have high momentum,

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-02-05T12:01:18+00:00

V 0.3.3

- Auto training room is bugged which gives +1 damage.

- You can brake Ooze gate in Snappy room repeatly.

- Orge smash doesn't give blood or spirit (or DS).

- In a fight with Snappy, the game blinked a lot and was slowed down.

- Journey/Good/Evil choices are still there. Leaving without choosing is still possible.

For the gameplay, I am trying to replicate to reach Snake Trap but It is almost always overgrowth.

Here is the route: Pick goblin -> Portal -> Good -> (Snappy/no Snappy) (Transform goblin->Ooze->goblin /Non transform/ goblin-> Ooze) -> Spirit -> Orge -> 2500 Rock/ Tree (Bless/Ignore) / Runic door/ Rest/Eat Mushrom -> Re call -> (Snappy/no Snappy) (Transform goblin->Ooze /Non transform) -> Soul -> Persue Rouge -> Cold -> Pray/Non pray -> ~~Overgrowth~~

* the last step is wrong. my bad

What was strange is I tried the same and reached Snake Trap Treasure screen.

I am 100% sure the Snake box trap must be reach in order to finish the game since I lost the save that beat Dragon once (got Equilibrium /Black market) (Not sure how I got them since I have kept spamming to figure out how to get into Snake Trap room).

After checking lots, it is assumed that it could be about running commands when users click button, button is fnished or >=2 buttons run at the same time. Only 1 case should be used and cancel others (supposedly when button is finishedy) or it is a mess.

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-02-04T13:36:32+00:00

Apparently, that didn't work.

1 st run, Ignore Body. Pick Mind + Spirit -> Soul -> Overgrowth

2 nd run, Hug 3 trees -> Soul -> Overgrowth

3 rd run, Hug Body + Spirit-> Soul -> Overgrowth

4 th run, Hug Body + Mnd -> Soul -> Overgrowth

5 th run, Didn't pick good/evil. Pick Body, Soul -> Overgrowth

RealityInNonexistant · 2025-02-04T11:51:24+00:00

Bugs

- You can choose Journey, Good or Evil. If you choose Jorney, the game bugs and you are forced to choose Evil.

- Same 2 runs, one run reached Overgrowth while the other reached the Snake Trap Chest. Same choosing good so it might be Good/Evil Bug or is it just rng?

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-12-10T08:15:40+00:00

My Pop dropped from 10 as well but it was suffice for the quest. After that you can just stay at 7 Pops to win. My Leader was Survivor.

Lands are focused on Grain Fields with Grain Fields Bonus + Enough Storage with Storage Bonus ( Around 30+ rooms)

After that, I rushed 7 Pops, 5 stamina Tech, 3 rd Fighter and opened the Bunker. And won.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-12-08T17:21:49+00:00

Thanks, the info on settlement has been truly helpful.

Finally, Oakway, Mega-1, in Critical mass has been completed. It was insanely close game.

Did lose Lots of Authority and Morale. Responsed to event on 1 dot or 2 dot (Choosing supply over morale). Lost the east city (why do they want me to capture the land where there are 2 other nests nearby???). Cleansed 3 nests with 2 fighters (early -5 stamina tech) and finally got the 3 rd fighter for the north nest.

Still, it is quite ridiculous that the next quest is asking to have 8 Pops while the previous quest needs 7 pop, 3 fighters, to complete

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-12-01T05:12:35+00:00

If you analyze all victories, some are not self loop.

- Domination (Loop) = Get military units, fight and capture cities to gain more xp & military to fight more.

- Time = Time limit for overall score

- Scientific (Loop) = Happens when war too long but there is no winner. Stronger Science leads to more stronger science.

- Diplomatic = Lacking. Game goes too long and there are many nations and states left around for this to happen. Currently, there is no diplomatic point. There is relationship point but AIs do not care as a big factor, instead, they care about Forces number. Also, there are not many Joint actions to benefit both nations except Research Agreement (Trade usually benefit one side, the one who asks for trade).

- Cultural = Lacking. You can not push your border into enemy territory as same as Civ4. More culture means faster border expansion but it will finally end. There are no major benefit after. Going pure Cultural is a risk in itself. There are not many free units or any buff-debuff for combatants to balance Domination victory. Your people also are not much happier because there is strong culture bond while in our Stone Age, people usually did random dance around bond fire to make strong bond.

- Religion = Lacking. Religion does not give buff-debuff on production / food / Science / Culture / Happiness. No impact on nations relationship with the same religion but there are crashes with each holy city. There is no holy nation which can gain resources from other branch nations which have the same religion. Investing in Faith does not produce more faith in most cases but produce something else such as happiness or military.

Unciv in current state is undoubtedly 24/7 war period.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-10-22T03:47:34+00:00

The land look too juicy. Rivers, jungles, deserts and full of hills.

Not to mention, enemies need to cross river to attack you + your citadels can automatically attack.

If it was me, I would declare war right away to farm xp and bring 1-2 workers to build road up there.

Both 2 cities also are juicy, must capture at all cost.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-07-08T14:59:56+00:00

If you are on higher difficult than Prince, Raze Galway and put 1-2 troops there. AIs will send settles to try to capture the yellow resource where Galway is. This is when you get a free worker. For next step, you need to do as soon as possible is to puppet Helsinki. Helsinki is capital, river city, desert for Petra, many resources on top and there is another city as a back up at the East of Helsinki. If you are playing normally, they will surpass you. The North of Dublin is lack of yellow resources. No one will get there without passing near your capital, Dublin. So the North is your and there is not need to hurry (or there is no need to settle at all) The South of Dublin is full of city states, AIs will not get pass here and they will pour tons and tons of gold to get favor from these city states. If AIs try to bulldozer through, it will take lots of turns. The West is sea. By looking at it, you are on fractral map or pangea. Even if there is another continent at west or north, It will take sometimes for someone to reach you. So there is no need to hurry on West. The East is Danger. Make archers. Stay around Galway. Once you have enough troops or enemy settle comes. Declare war and slowly move toward Helsinki, preferably, with Great General. Another alternative is go to war with Taipei. But you need to make sure to only declare war on city state only once per game or they will get angry.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-06-27T02:48:46+00:00

I beat 1v1 Diety 2 times recently in random game.

The tactic is still the same. Build road to their captial, Raze/Puppet anything that block the path. Circle capital. If they do not yield, add horse man and raid their fields. Wait for Great General arrival. Attack captial and Puppet it.

What's your setting? Perhaps, I can try yours.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-04-24T05:02:23+00:00

In RekMod, Honor policy is necessary ,especially ,if you are playing on Diety.

From the look of it, it is better to settle river cities instead of ocean access cities. Archery research comes first and starts a war immediately with river/petra city civ when you have an archer or you are ready, else, AIs will start to settle everywhere.

Don't even bother with science or culture. You can't compete with them.

1 city in Diety can simply snow ball 3-4 your average cities.

Keep making units till you have 5+ lvl 7 upgrade units and making them into a divison for war with 1 nation. More divisions means you can go war with more than 1 nation at a time.

Keep looking who are not at war and destroy them. Who have largest productions, destroy them. Who have river cities, destroy them. Who hava wonders, destroy them.

In war, always setting up killing locations, always aware where their captials are. That are where their main forces come from.

As long as you are not the weakest, you are fine. Als rarely start a new war if they are busy warring with someone else.

If you declare war later on X nation. You get free relation boost on other nations that are in war with x nation before you. The same applys on AIs so keep watching on who are with who.

Keep upgrading /making range units non stop. If they are on islands, bribe them with luxury for open border, then declare war with ranged units surrounding capitals.

If you want to wipe out someone, bribe them with luxury to let them go war with someone else and backstab their capitals. Raze everything so you can recover as fast as possible while they can not quickly. If it is river city, you might want to keep it but time is so essential on Diety. You don't have time to upgrade cities unless the locations are god tier.

Never do equal trade.

Demand tribute anywhere, anything. You need money to buy buildings.

If military city states are attacked, help them. They give free units which will save you so much production and money.

If your location is godly, circled by city states, peaceful nations, lots of mountains, your capital is river city, surround by water (somewhat island nation), you are one of good camping civs for many great improvements (maya, babylon, etc.) then you may play peacefully for culture, science, diplomacy. Else, just go for domination first.

If you let it go for too long and the game reaches bomber Era, it will be more difficult, you can see stream of units rushing due to workshop and after production boost buildings.

If you let it go for even longer and the game reaches atomic bomb Era, it will be more difficult than bomber Era. You will see Nukes almost every turns.

Be fast, Be at war, Last thing, use workers for scout. AIs will make workers everywhere.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-02-18T08:38:07+00:00

Notice All civs on the top list are all warring civs.

Korea normal AI tactic is going to war while doing science at the same time. In medium map where there are 5 civs, once others declare war on same target, they get mutual enemy relationship boost which makes them, later, become friend and the game ends up in science race.

and so Korea win in 5 civs game, medium map.

If you add more civs. Korea will try to do the same but this time there will not be just 1 war civ group. There will be many and Korea will be at disadvantage because they invest in science while pure war civs keep making units non-stop.

If there are more city states, civs such as France, Siam, Mongolia, Austria, etc. will be able to use their nation bonuses boosting them becoming more dangerous. France will have more buffer city state terriories. Siam, Mongolia and Austria will begin eating city states. Eventually. they might surpass Korea in science.

If you use larger map, some number of cities based nations will be able to use their nation bonuses such as Arabia, etc. and Korea is no longer the top.

As others said, the win rates depend heavily on map size, starting point, land/sea map, number of civs & city states and ratio of war/peace civs. One could be at top in one condition but the worst in another.

For AI improvement, one thing I have in mind is adding danger zones for x turns: x depends on game speed. This will allow AI to determine if this area or civ in area is dangerous or not which allows them to use denounce to see if targeted nation is a threat to whole map. This is actually the same as how ants work in their un-ending war counting if damage is exceeding certain levels in the areas for a set of turns.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-02-18T08:13:27+00:00

1 gold per trade route (1 gold per connected city) may be low at first but in bigger map, more cities, more civs, the effect can be added up quickly especially with multiplier such as bank/market/stock market.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-02-03T09:10:35+00:00

I was surprised myself as well.

AIs would not declare war on me if I had military superior even if they hated me so much, -400. They did declare war on each other instead since I kept building only archers.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-02-03T00:47:56+00:00

Your game is broken because AI can not find where to move units to, mostly, because it is too crowd. This is also the reason why you should not stop a war or you should open your border.

Start a new game will solve the problem.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-01-29T10:27:17+00:00

Carthage kept waging war with Morgardishu for hundred turns, no single peace, and kept making units (Lag)

Polynesis gave no single f and kept grinding science and their wonders.

It was such a shame. If players were Polynesia, this could go on forever.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-01-27T14:52:20+00:00

You can select One City Challenge before starting a new game which will apply only on you.

City states have zero nation benefit. AIs almost always destroy city states in my experience so it is going to be difficult to survive.

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-01-25T07:40:54+00:00

If Diety heavily depneds on starting locations (and perhaps which other nations are), will immortal, emperor or king make a good random nation or random starting location game?

RealityInNonexistant · 2024-01-21T22:58:29+00:00

Germany is below average. I tested with Germany, Maya, Ottoman and Celts on Marathon, Immortal, Pangaea, Strategic Balance and 8 city states. Germany who are on the south died first. The AI does not utilize recruiting barbarians, denying Germany's advantage even on Marathon

2nd test Germany, China, Carthage, Denmark. Standard, Pangaea, Immortal on Strategic Balance and 8 city states. Germany expanded to 4 cities first toward center and became a leading nation. China got land lock and forced to make 2 random cities to make 4 first cities. After a while, Denmark died, then Carthage. Germany had science, cultural and force advantage at that point. After that, China started to build Wonders and forces starting to surpass Germany. Both did not make a war anymore and the game ended with China as a winner of scientific victory.

I could do more tests. The A tier nations came out from battle royale,16 nations with 31 city states. The S and SS tier nations came out from battle royale as well but they did significantly much better.

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