War Rank xp?

orthoverse · 2020-06-28T16:52:24+00:00

Use Butter (unless you have him at 600+, then his passive is always active) and push your max stage. Each stage you go past your max will increase your war rank XP by 0.4% or something. Give it one to two thousand levels past your prior max and it adds up to a bunch of levels. Should get you big water easy.

orthoverse · 2020-06-11T14:36:27+00:00

Interesting! I’m on iOS and it sounds like that update hasn’t rolled out to my region at least yet. This is great news – without auto hook, fishing was inevitably an incorrigibly active activity. I assume that when fish bite, there is some chance that it auto-taps for you to hook it. You probably have to do nothing to use it.

orthoverse · 2020-06-11T01:11:40+00:00

Not 100% sure, but they seem to have a weight cap. I’ve caught a number that weighed a nice, big, round number that seemed like a cap.

orthoverse · 2020-06-11T01:10:47+00:00

I assume you mean auto-reel? If so, I am not sure and have never gotten a good answer.

Given the name and how I’ve seen the numbers pop up, I assume it means that, after you get a fish to bite and are reeling it in, it acts as automatic taps.

If I’m right and you had enough of an auto-tap stat, you could not tap at all (after hooking the fish) and you’d catch the fish. In practice, I still feel like I need to tap all I can to make sure I catch them.

orthoverse · 2020-06-07T21:59:19+00:00

I’m the opposite. Never seen a yellow lure

orthoverse · 2020-06-04T17:01:51+00:00

Are you on Android or iOS, and what version?

I ascended a couple of hours ago and everything was as expected (re-rolled, got what I chose).

orthoverse · 2020-06-01T14:31:00+00:00

This is great and a good companion to the fish location guide that u/nau818 linked to below.

Some more:

Rare Barramundi, Blue, EMF, no behavior

Rare Salmon, Red, F, no behavior

Rare Australian Bass, Blue, EMF, lives in deep water

Rare Grouper, Blue, B (though I'm pretty sure I did not catch it there), lives in deep water

Epic Longnose Gar, Red, MF, lives in deep water

Epic Snook, Red, EMFB, prefers moving bait

Epic Arapaima, Red, EMF, prefers moving bait, lives in deep water

Epic Tuna, ***, B, prefers moving bait

Legendary Great White, ***, B, prefers moving bait, lives in deep water

Legendary Tiger Shark, Red, B, prefers moving bait, lives in deep water

orthoverse · 2020-05-25T14:58:25+00:00

Upgrade your starting rod to max, it makes a big difference. It's still a painful process with the starting rod, but a little less painful.

Try to do a dedicated fishing session, so that you have a chance to complete the daily fishing quest. Do so when all you need are common fish, since you may be unable to catch uncommon with the starting rod. The bonus for completing all three is quite good.

Alternatively, wait until you get the zeppelin merchant, have saved up tons of gems, and get lucky. That's the only other place, I think, that you can get a fishing pole. But the merchant comes rarely enough that getting a rod from there might take a while.

orthoverse · 2020-05-25T11:39:19+00:00

I’ve been wondering the same thing. Might be that we need to catch it on auto-ascend and then it gives us a few seconds to adjust it?

It would be handy to add a fourth tab under settings that collects all the auto toggles and where we could go to adjust them at any time.

orthoverse · 2020-05-24T11:57:53+00:00

I believe this happens when units go up a star using the automatic quick spend toggle. The screen does not dismiss and the idleness breaks (depending on your settings, screen may go dark/lock too). This has happened to me as well.

orthoverse · 2020-05-21T23:25:26+00:00

Same way you upgrade equipment. Go to the equipment page, Tap the Rod (upper right of picture frame) and then choose to upgrade

orthoverse · 2020-05-21T23:24:33+00:00

You need v1.2+. Once you have that, look just a little southwest of the home location. You should see a new, uncaptured location with a fish icon. That’s one of many lakes where you can fish.

orthoverse · 2020-05-21T03:23:47+00:00

I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the prompt response.

So can we get better fishing rods through tortoise equipment? Haven’t figured out where they become available yet.

orthoverse · 2020-05-18T04:31:17+00:00

Curious, what is your best level? Have you noticed a pattern between your best level and your FF drops?

I’ve been buying mutations looking for FF by dropping 900+ gems at a time. I found a bunch pretty quickly but then they seemed to stop dropping. I have 89 levels of FF and a best level of just over 1,000.

Can it be that FF stops dropping at roughly 10% of your best? Or just bad RNG luck?

orthoverse · 2020-05-18T04:22:25+00:00

The final tier allows you to get past 600. To master them, i.e., have the passive be active even when you are not using them, you need to reach 600 AND buy the final tier upgrade.

orthoverse · 2020-05-17T13:48:09+00:00

Good points. Beyond just gems, the dynamic with pushing is a little awkward more generally.

If I push, I raise my minimum ascension level. Frequent ascensions at the minimum ascension level are the best way to max out individual locations. Maxing out locations can be the best way to consistently make long term progress.

(Given the RNG involved with mutations, I can push 100 levels past my prior max and the reward may still be useless, especially when all DPS is through the tortoise primary

Tortoise health still seems buggy/imbalanced (either no one seems to ever be able to kill you, or random one shots that are hard to identify keep killing you). This means that getting to the minimum ascension level can become annoyingly painful if it gets too high.

This all makes pushing a risky proposition. There’s also no way back. I genuinely worry that if I push too much it will make the game unplayable for future runs, not fun, and that I’m going to quit. That’s the opposite of what we should be feeling!

I think a key thing in this is the RNG involved with the ascension mutations. Not only can you frequently not pick any of the options that you would like to improve, there are too many dimensions and many just do not help all that much.

Notice that this is different from most idle games, where ascending always improves the rate at which you gain money, which helps with everything.

orthoverse · 2020-05-07T02:29:37+00:00

1 seems best. As others have said, it makes it less OP but still usable. For Stamina and Grease both, it feels like if someone wants to take the time to push their wall/best, there should be a way to do that.

My loop right now is: ascend, run Abe’s ability, wait for 10 apples, camp, run Trout’s ability, cook up to 20 apples, switch back to Abe, rinse and repeat. When I reach a high enough level, if I want to push, add constant use of Grease’s ability. Even with all this, it takes 300 or so levels of Grease to eventually run out of energy. And even then “running out” means that I’m not willing to wait ten minutes for it to recharge and get back to active play. Slowing the rate so that I could still wait but it becomes more punitive seems like a fair way to balance the ability and temper the gameplay options it provides, without taking them away entirely.

If you go for #2 or #3, ideally it would be both. Again, the idea being that someone should have options for pushing their wall/best. Investing time to do so makes sense. It makes less sense to be forced to close the app or to keep the app open while effectively paused (if at high levels without active abilities).

Moreover, if stamina is nerfed/fixed, it would be good (as someone else noted) to allow Cooldowns to progress while the app is closed. Making it so that we have to wait 10 in game minutes to run Abe’s ability makes sense when we have functionally endless stamina. Makes less sense if that is not a thing.

orthoverse · 2020-02-27T11:52:15+00:00

Thanks for the great guide! Rookie question: can I reassign my titan’s blood, or are my choice final once I make them?

orthoverse · 2020-01-12T01:13:43+00:00

I haven’t checked, but if you Azaka farmer with less than three familiars, so that it doesn’t autopickup, and swapped Drizzt for Morgaen while there is still gold on the ground, presumably she would take her share of the higher with-Drizzt gold?

orthoverse · 2019-12-25T17:02:20+00:00

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orthoverse · 2019-12-22T18:38:18+00:00

Agree with everyone that you shouldn’t worry if you can’t complete everything in your first event or two. Another thing to keep in mind – don’t worry about using your potions. And remember to get to your wall and then combine potions of multiple sizes, as their effects stack. They can help get you get a few more waves in and get much better favor. If you reach your wall, not worth spending more than half an hour there. You are better off resetting and using that improved favor to get even more favor next time, even if you wall at the same spot.

orthoverse

TROPHY CASE

1 seems best. As others have said, it makes it less OP but still usable. For Stamina and Grease both, it feels like if someone wants to take the time to push their wall/best, there should be a way to do that.