To all the people asking why they're losing ascension points:
It's either your guild losing some guild levels or fortress levels due to stone shifts or players leaving.
Fast medium badge
Go to social -> codes -> codes? and copypaste the codes from the past 7 days to the codes screen. Go to activities -> cards -> card packs and use them on mobs to reach milestones ( 10/25/50/100/250).
Open the event ( top left of the screen just under activities ) and play that to get resources for more upgrades.
Use diamonds to upgrade gold VIP a few levels and then use everything on VIP xp, can be done by going to upgrades -> vip.
Spend gold and ap on a few gold upgrades at start and then start upgrading time extend, hp reduction, auto and click upgrades only.
When you hit level 10 go to activities -> mining and use all the free dynamites to clear the mines to get a little stone, after that donate the stone to a building ( social -> guild -> any building that isn't grayed out -> drag the scrollbar to 100% -> donate) after that spend the guild xp you got from donating on personal altar ( social -> guild -> altar -> personal -> upgrade).
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