I'd also like to point out that at the top of the leader boards, multiple people have achieved 90,000+ buildings. Now, I haven't been on top with this idle game since release but I have been fairly consistent with checking it and started just under 50 days ago, which was only a couple of weeks after release. My progress has fallen off significantly even though I only have 22,000 buildings. I know the game has been unbalanced at certain points, especially when the antiparticles were first released but I don't see how people are making so much progress. Anyone have any real explanation?
Looking at the all-time fights in the followers tab, four people have 54000 points and above. That would mean that those people have collected 54,000 followers and above. I did the math on the claims and the highest possible value you could receive if you were claiming perfectly and getting 1,000 on the wheel every time since of each feature release would be about 31,447. The battles do give additional followers but the math doesn't add up. Is there something I'm missing? I don't know how these people are getting so many followers.
To make it clear for any first ascensions from my experience, you already have one of the 50 LP upgrades in your family traits so you don't have to try to get 50 LP for one upgrade before ascending the first time. I made that mistake and was the age of 75, after about 5 real days, before ascending. If you wanted to build up 50 LP for one of the first upgrades, just reascend at level 160 or so since by that point production slows down exponentially.
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