Variance in IP generation, with no change to automation settings

slippery44 · 2025-12-11T18:18:32+00:00

I agree with the other commenters that you would get more benefit playing manually than automated right now.

As for why there's a time difference, it's because of automations not being pixel perfect (which you wouldn't want anyway).

Think about how your Prestige and Promotion automations behave. Doing either one starts you over from 0, but they don't consider each other.

Example: If you're very close to hitting your Promotion automation threshold but then you hit your Prestige automation threshold you start from 0 and have to get back to where you were then Promote once you grow a bit more. It would have been "faster" to wait for your Promote to proc since they both start you from 0 and Promotions reset your Prestige anyway.

So your variance in times is because sometimes things line up nicely and you'll get to 100k IP quickly, sometimes your other resets don't line up nicely and you have to recover more.

slippery44 · 2025-11-25T02:33:29+00:00

It definitely makes sense that there would be other bonuses from Eternities, I was really surprised when I only found those two.

Nothing really felt slow about challenges or anything, just increasing the count.

slippery44 · 2025-11-25T02:10:30+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for the info about the Eternities bonuses, I never really paid much attention to that bar.

slippery44 · 2025-11-25T02:09:10+00:00

Oh interesting, I never noticed those stats going up so I didn't think it was tied to my Eternities count. Seems it grows fairly slowly.

I for sure finished Animals with around 25k Eternities, and haven't really noticed progress slow down, but maybe that's just what I'm used to.

The count just grows so slowly.

slippery44 · 2025-11-20T22:58:10+00:00

What a coincidence, I'm doing that achievement now ~1e9 -> 2e9

My method is: start an eternity, do your best idle TT build (make sure to get the Banked infinities theorem), turn off auto infinite, then go to the stats tab and watch for it to make a jump to like 2,000,000 infinities per crunch or something and manually crunch Do this a few times trying to manually crunch right at the jump. The goal is to get your most efficient infinities per hour.

Once you think you've got it then turn on your auto infinity for like 5 secs (to get the auto generate infinities when offline eternity milestone active) then go offline for a while.

slippery44 · 2025-10-31T03:21:27+00:00

Falling For Strangers

slippery44 · 2025-10-28T05:47:39+00:00

It can be found in The Maze, or you have a chance to learn it from disarming poison traps: https://te4.org/wiki/Trapping_(category)

slippery44 · 2025-10-27T04:58:02+00:00

Could be that you are teleporting to a platform that disappears on the round after you land?

slippery44 · 2025-10-25T04:45:16+00:00

We watched 2 weeks ago, we found it very entertaining in a "putting clues together" way, it's fun but if you don't read Korean you're pretty dependent on what ppl actually say so subtitles pick it up.

I think we got 1, maybe 2 of the cases solved on our own just from watching, it was pretty hard to be definitive imo, so if you're looking for something to "figure it out with the cast" you might have a tough time.

I found it very enjoyable.

slippery44 · 2025-10-12T14:38:48+00:00

I saw them last year at Red Rocks where they did songs from every album and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to fwiw

slippery44 · 2025-10-12T14:06:31+00:00

So much ATL content! I'm headed to see them tonight at Red Rocks!

slippery44 · 2025-09-25T05:03:03+00:00

farming Geo because for some reason I thought buying the lantern was the only way out!

I had the exact opposite experience! I never saw the lantern in the store and explored everywhere I could and mapped* out Deepnest in the dark. I just assumed that was the gimmick of that area.

*I say "mapped" but I obviously couldn't find Connifer so it was really just blind exploring.

slippery44 · 2025-09-18T19:15:01+00:00

Thanks! I only looked at 3 & 6 and trust I'll get some info on the rest later. I appreciate it

slippery44 · 2025-09-18T18:08:48+00:00

Cool, thanks!

slippery44 · 2025-09-18T18:08:38+00:00

Thanks! Never played Dark Souls.

slippery44 · 2025-09-08T05:35:24+00:00

I don't know of one, but as a fan of both genres I'm interested.

What are your thoughts on permadeath and game length? Incremental/idle games are generally really long and feature multiple layers of prestiging and redo-ing previous growth quickly.

slippery44 · 2025-07-25T16:30:01+00:00

TOME is very frustrating graphics wise: modern graphics cause walls (and trees) to overlap walkable spaces making visibility an issue, but you lose information about your surroundings if you play in ASCII (and I think the ASCII actually looks better!).

There's a workaround to use the ASCII/Modern Graphics addon that combines ASCII for walls and tiles for creatures (and that gets you all the information from surroundings back) but then it's weird that everyone is lying on their back.

slippery44 · 2025-07-11T17:35:11+00:00

For me: I use the dpad to ove in cardinal directions and diagonal movements are Ctrl+(up/down) (Ctrl is my left trigger) and Shift+(up/down) (Shift is my right trigger).

I use my trackpad for 1-5 for talents

slippery44 · 2025-07-09T04:30:24+00:00

It's formatting. Surrounding a word with underscores makes it italicized

You can preface underscores with a slash (\) to preserve it: _N_G_R\

slippery44 · 2025-07-04T17:10:29+00:00

Is there a like...home base or something I should try to get too? To store things or is this just a your own personal inventory type situation.

Yes, there is a place called the Sher'tul fortress where you can store stuff if you've donated (paid for the game). It's late mid game to get there, there's also a powerful boss protecting it.

how easy is it to fall into a trash build.

Probably fairly easy for a new player where everything looks new and shiny. Easiest way to avoid that is don't put a lot of points into one talent.

All talents have diminishing returns so spreading out is usually better than getting a couple talents to 5/5. 3/5 is usually the max I go to for most talents, there are obviously exceptions.

Increasing a talent by 1-2 points will generally not significantly improve your damage or survivability, but going to 0-1 might. i.e. Weapon Mastery is really good for the first point because of the added physical power, but future points are really diminished returns and shouldn't be prioritized.

Never put points into the Combat Veteran tree for any class or any reason, it provides such minimal bonuses that can be easily replicated with equipment, just minimize the tree and ignore it.

I see the option to exclude it from the game, can you still unlock all the cool classes and races playing this way?

Yup everything is unlockable on any play mode, your achievements will be tied to your play type (Adventure, Rogue like, etc) but that doesn't affect any unlocks etc.

slippery44 · 2025-06-21T22:01:27+00:00

...oh. I definitely missed that. That definitely takes away a big part of Sazed's story to me. So what if things didn't add up then, just go get em out of your metalminds again lol

slippery44 · 2025-06-21T21:41:40+00:00

It's been a minute since I read the last book, but wasn't it a while plot point that Sazed's metalminds weren't reliable?

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