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This is not a game. This is a gameplay and balance tester for a game before adding the graphics and sound effects and music.
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@TravisGreen - once you configure your first hero, there should be a Start Game button that appears at the bottom. It's necessary to use all the available stats for this to happen.
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This is an archive of the guide from the now defunct Kongregate forum for Ascension Layer 2 and above. https://web.archive.org/web/20230531151532/https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1058760-incremental-adventures/topics/1891167-1-2-armory-trials-and-al2-guide
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@Wariat117 Do you have "Leaderboard" enabled in the settings? I turned that setting on and got the badge on my next PL2.
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I am slightly confused that the progress bar for the "Upward Climber Badge" only goes up to 2 when you have 100 floors to climb? Having got to floor 25 I'm at 1 on the progress bar?
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For those struggling with Highroller, you can just skip it for now and get 1 point in AL2. After recovery you have enough stats to make remaining AL1 challenges trivial.
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god i love this game but it takes a longgg time. i have one paladin focused on health, and 3 rangers focused on damage. basically not min-max
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Now I tried WPPPPP, but that seems to be even slower. And weirdly enough, none of the PLs seem to auto-prestige. I have to manually prestige all of them,despite having set up the auto-buyers.
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Now, I am giving Highroller another shot, but t's just as painfully slow as before. Already at PL11 it comes to a crawl. The strange thing is that it seemingly DOES auto-prestige at PL1, as the stats do go up. So, I really don't understand what's slowing me down. Without the trial, I just easily got to PL41 and could go on and on. I set PL3-6 to 4/3/2/x as the Steam guide says. The other PL autobuyers remain at default. Or do I need to do anything specific with them as well? I also buy the soft-prestige for each PL. Maybe it's my team composition? Though it's also as recommended in the Steam guide: WWRRRP.
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@rockydennis: That's also what I was doing (manually prestige PL1 and PL2 when possible), but it was still too slow. There are multiple ways to grind: Get more ascension upgrades, more ascension perks and more armory upgrades.
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@KeeperBvk - I could get to PL14 for Highroller 1 before I'd get stuck. What I did then was to manually prestige at PL1 if there were enough points to get an increase in stats. I'd inevitably get stuck and have to do it again - this repeated many times. It took some time, but I was able to finally finish it. I'm not sure you need to grind for upgrades - if in the game it recommends doing Highroller based on where you are, you can probably do it.
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@rockydennis: I had also been following that exact same guide, but it's too slow for me. I keep grinding upgrades before attempting it again.
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I've unlocked Ascension Layer 2. What are the Ascension AutoBuyers settings I should be using for this and future Ascension layers?
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@rockydennis Yep; I was following exactly that guide. I did not progress significantly for days, so I'll retry after getting Improved Prestige, and very likely 2 stat upgrades.
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Question for those who've progressed past Ascension Layer 1 - so far, I've been following the strategy from the Steam guide of skipping prestige layers (I prestige two layers at a time) until somewhere around PL24-27, where I then prestige one layer at a time. In the Ascension perks, there's a perk where I can automatically skip two layers (prestige three layers at a time). The guide only covers up to AL1. I'm ready to ascend to AL2 now - at what point and conditions would I be skipping two prestige layers?
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This is the guide to the game on Steam, which covers the game through AL1. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2208459897
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My strategy for Highroller 1 was to set Autobuyer at PL3 and up at 4/3/2/x (4-root/3-root/2-root/1.01x) with Lowest Layer Priority (LLP) (this is from the Steam guide), but I was still getting stuck. Whenever that happened, I would manually prestige at PL1, and eventually I finished the trial.
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Highroller 1 trial was tougher than I expected. I'm thinking that I will try again after getting Improved Prestige (and very likely at least one more stat upgrade)
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@rockydennis: Thanks! @GAMER_7: Keep prestiging. Eventually, there will be a counter in the top right indicating how much longer you need to go until you can ascend for the first time.
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Pretty Good Game Only Thing Is That The Thing Where When You Go Afk And returns the game speeds up? Make it Faster If you Haven't Played In A long Time.
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@norcekri: What do you mean "they were not archived"? You can still easily access the forum posts by clicking "Forum Posts" and then "Archive". Alternativel, there are also plenty of guides on Steam.
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Something's just not clicking for me here (no pun intended) in terms of what to do to progress. Seems like I've hit a plateau at Level 15 and I don't know what to do to increase more points and gold. I know that there is talk of guides and such in other places, but there's not enough intrinsic appeal in this game to do the "work" of research. So, is there a simple, short summary of advice to keep in mind at all?
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lower the ceiling, raise the floor//our skills are just a nested moor//one to the other, we can't combine, maybe someday we'll see clear each others' shine
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Recent comments reference game guides in the IA forums. Kongregate does not support these any more, referring us to the web archives. The forums were not archived.
(1) Is anyone at Kongregate maintaining the data integrity? If so, they missed this one.
(2) Are the referenced forums in existence? If so, please provide a useful URL.
adTHANKSvance
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Hi Gniller, I'm a dummy and feeling a bit lost. I haven't hit Ascension yet, I'm working towards PL10 I guess. My autobuyer settings are set to "log10(current)x" for layers 1-4 and disabled for 5 onwards. Default minimal 1.01x, prioritize lower layers, on small floor change. This seems to make sense to me but I can't say I understand why lol. Does it look okay to you? What would you change now or in the future and when?
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a little annoying when you are trying to build a balanced team. I have a warrior with only defense and hp, and he does no damage. good game over all but higher floors (for you) feel a little boring
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@Sagouain - I'm not sure what you're saying. eeN = 10^(10^N). So from the previous comment that gave an example of 1.0ee2345, that's 10^(10^2345) which is 1e10000000.... with 2345 zeros.
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@rockydennis it's actually ee5.xx where 5 represent the number of digits -1 and XX the first two digits of the e. So indeed it doesn't make any sense.
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For some reason my auto prestige stopped working. What exactly is the setting to turn it on and off? Maybe i messed a setting up?
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@yiupang9999 - the game does use scientific notation, until the numbers get too big. 1.0ee2345 that you mention in scientific notation would be 1e100000...... with a total of 2345 zeros.