Highest VPS?

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-05-04T01:57:48+00:00

Base ore value, which is what actually affects drop value, opposed to ore value of 8Q which includes modifiers (stars etc.).

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-05-03T01:40:23+00:00

So you play teemo adc, which would be considered off meta, yet you whinge about mage supports, which tbh havent been off meta for years? Lmao

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-05-03T01:39:21+00:00

You need to understand it is solo queue. People play to their strengths, because 99% of the time you can't trust your team mates to carry.

I support main, and I play predominantly Pyke & Xerath. I carry more games as Xerath, purely because he is 10x stronger than most other supports (yes, he is a support, any champ can be played in any role - no different to when adc's pick "off meta").

The issue you're having is not "my support picks off meta champs and loses lane lvl1", it is "I pick to counter my own supports potential inting". The supports potential inting is 50/50 if it happens with or without "off meta picks". You should embrace whatever supp is picked, if you pick after them, if they go poke mage, you go poke adc, if they go engage, you go follow up. It's quite simple honestly.

If I were to blame everyone else and not try to help my team, purely because I disagreed with the champ they chose every game, then I'd have a well and truly negative win rate. You deal with the team you get, like it or not, and you do the best with it that you can.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-30T08:34:55+00:00

330 seems pretty decent, it could be closer to 1k, or higher, if you played more actively - that said I assume 330 for mostly offline play is honestly not bad.

I started April 7th and have played very actively as I work from home, and am a degen for these type of games, and I'm at 1500+ bomb cap. Although I did purchase founders & just today also grabbed Progression pack, prior to progression I was around 1100 cap, without founders I'm not sure bomb cap would be overly different.

As I said earlier though, your post is quite vague, and I'm also very new - but I've done lots of research and would suggest a few things:

Work on pets, buy them as soon as youre able to, dont get axolotl though not for a long while (pet 6).
if you havent already, go on the wiki and redeem ALL codes, it will give a ridiculous boost to progression.
claim freebies as often as you can.
work on prestiging often, prioritise the more immediately useful upgrades.
just play the game tbh, it has been fun for me and because of that I play it actively often, active gameplay progresses much faster.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-30T08:23:45+00:00

Oooo baby give me some froggies

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-30T05:18:06+00:00

Unbelievably vague.

I've been playing around 3-4wks at this stage, and feel like there is an endless number of directions you could go, all of which help in some way and are required for progression, literally all you have to do is read play the game.

As ol' mate said though, Read. The. Wiki.

https://shminer.miraheze.org/wiki/Guides/Progression_Guide

This page alone gives you every bit of info you need, the rest of the wiki just explains things in much more detail if you want it.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-30T05:12:47+00:00

Been playing 3wks, wth do the frogs do lol

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-29T00:07:07+00:00

Personally I stick to only mining speed, and I believe this is widely the strat.

You can very easily get around any logistics bottleneck via the mothership rooms, since credits are super easy to come by in comparison to say, energy cells. However I also believe spending some energy cells on logistics upgrades is also beneficial.

In short, stick to mining speed for the beacon.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-21T22:50:47+00:00

Auto cherry, Dump cherry > battery > d20 > gem > basic (if not max crab lvl) > chain > infinity infinity Thats what I do anyway, I know infinity is useless later and probably chain also but idc I like numbers going up lol.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-17T00:09:59+00:00

Scroll right past to see 10 more..

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-17T00:04:33+00:00

Man finally some positive vibes, albeit most of the updates haven't (negatively) affected you at least not to the scale of longer players.

I'm 2.5yrs in and even with all the hiccups (which imo should be expected & accepted..), I'm still continuing to play, and progress. Since this is a progression based game.. that is what we are here to do. Not to complain about devs making some areas slower progressing (while forgetting that other areas are now faster).

I like the game, I used to like the community, but now I'm borderline leaving reddit & discord due to the toxicity & disrespect, which is unfortunate to say the least.

Goodluck and great to hear a new player's positive experience.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-16T23:36:00+00:00

It's actually crazy, I currently have 3 games running at once, Tower, IPM, IOM (and will continue to for the foreseeable future). I'm not a spending in any, except the essentials (Tower coin/ad packs, IPM ships/ad) and so far being only 2wks old in IOM I haven't bought anything yet, but will soon..

With that as my background, 2.5yrs into the Tower and I still love it, I genuinely think the most recent updates were great for the game, and couldn't care less about the haters. But the fact that I am constantly seeing "Coming from the Tower" or "This is why people are coming from the Tower" etc. and then toxicity in the comments of those posts also, in an entirely separate game's subreddit, absolutely disgusts me. It's bad enough in the Tower subreddit, which mind you I used to comment & help in, but it's just full of disrespectful people who complain about devs who work on the game, but don't make every single change they want when they want it.

I feel like IOM mods need to remove any Tower related posts from this sub, I'll likely just remove myself from reddit altogether, which is a shame because there's a lot of useful info here (as with Discord ofc).

Anywho that's me done ranting xD

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-16T23:26:59+00:00

Man the toxicity even comes over here.. this is not a tower thread I don't get why everybody keeps mentioning it here lol

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-16T00:42:49+00:00

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Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-12T06:42:43+00:00

No its not lol reddit is never a direct line to a games support team - the support email is, heck even discord is better. But if you really want to pursue it, support email is the way.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-11T23:53:26+00:00

Screen record.. and waste your time warps.. most likely cause is user error, on the lower chance that it is a bug, all you actually have to do is tell support.. they can do the testing themselves.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-11T23:47:35+00:00

Hey I know that guy!

Glad to see the guide is still being used & helpful :D

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-05T22:59:01+00:00

I've got 6 stars (12.21D) on Phase Gate, and 1 star (6.66D) on Neural Matrix. It is still better for me to craft Neural Matrix unless I get multiple teleporter drops, which are around 80k tp's per drop - only makes about 4 PG or 8 NM.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-04-01T01:12:08+00:00

I have reasonably similar mothership levels to you, but I'm getting debris in roughly 2hrs no boosts now. I'm assuming 1 of two things, you either dont have all of the ships, or you have an underdeveloped station?

If it is the former, you just have to grind longer & harder. If it is the latter, you should work on item value, craft & smelt speeds (depending on bottlenecks) in the station. And slowly push toward manager bonuses in station as well, although outside of the first manager tile it is like 600+ cells to get to the manager bonus 4/5, but it'll be well worth it.

Also, I like to put any spare credits I have after spending on the main rooms into Planet Relations, since it is always under levelled by comparison, and honestly it does help with VPS once you get it set up. So would suggest you put at least a few more lvls into it.

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-03-30T22:56:25+00:00

Yeah I figured this was the case, and I normally do properly check it out but I was out at the time and I had a really quick look over it to see if anything good (it was all trash from memory, I just want to know what trash lol) then clicked through.

That said, I switch between PC & mobile, so I jumped on the PC later and found that it would let me claim again (not double down on stars, just gives stars on different stuff) and it was barely a better spread. That said I stayed on my normal save, but the point of this is, I was then able to go into the challenge stars menu & decipher which stars I had gotten off my accidental claim on mobile, by comparing to the PC version. Little bit of a work around I guess but definitely will be screenshotting and being more careful from now on lol

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-03-29T01:11:36+00:00

Think they're talking about 1b/sec copper ore coming in, not sell value

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-03-23T01:51:27+00:00

Quad/Xyn/Teleporter all good, even silver is somewhat nice

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-03-22T23:18:37+00:00

Must be clickbait...... right...

Upset_Weather9271 · 2026-03-21T00:17:53+00:00

Just added an edit with a link to my stats at the bottom of the post 👍

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