@half_life, I can't say for certain (I restarted from scratch recently so I'm not to Insane yet) but the bestiary on the board in town mentions "Unique behaviors in Insane and Challenge mode." Also the mechanics mentions how Universals can reflect damage on Insane and missions.
I can not say for certain, but I believe at some point it becomes some sort of mathematical theory where you will always just divide by half without ever reaching 0. As for groundhogs, I think that is strictly the number of times you reset. The closest thing to adding more years is using the laser to fight back, and even then it's just a few years. I can get around an extra decade at laser level 1400.
@Genseitei I agree with the night mode, but do you mean the lack of offline progress? That is done in something like stored double-time (forgot what they called it). This way you can use the offline time, since in a game like this "you advanced x years" would really just result in skipping a life or two.
If you think about it... the aliens are probably the good guys. Us humans are already destroying the planet, and building a massive laser all over the earth to shoot down aliens in space before they arrive from earth has got to be hurting the atmosphere. And even if you built the laser on space stations or satellites the resources it would take just getting the materials, if not the whole laser itself to the location would be outrageous.
Going to face palm if that turns out to be the ending.
@Doom, I'm not a mathematician or anything, but from what I understand there is a term in math where if you constantly cut something in half it will never truly reach zero. I'm guessing it's like that.
If the dev removed the market to make the game open source, doesn't that mean that all the people saying it needs an update could potentially create the update? Or was the last update to prepare it for open source but dev disappeared before it actually became open source?
Came back to this after so long... seems either they still haven't fixed the saves or I haven't figured it out. (Having to download from cloud every single time rather than just leaving it at "while you were away")
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