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Got a Good ULTIMATE PICK +24. P=446 876 265. Quality=2661.24% off of a base with 16 791 978. anyone get something better than that?
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some upgrade ideas for this game. When you finish an ore there is a chance you get 2 gems or double what the ore is worth. upgrades that increase your critical damage and critical chance.
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That moment when you leave the game running all night and get 1000 gems and craft duds and only inspire the blacksmith for him to no doubt make a dud again. All 1000 times.
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Mah game wus awtosavin while Blacksmith wuz magnificent or somthin, so I haz got "Game saved. ...and crafted a masterpiece!". LAWLZ
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If anyone wants to calculate the most efficient thing to mine, I made a calculator: www.kongregate.com/games/steelgiant/idle-mine-calculator
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Have they nerfed the quality of pickaxes? I remember getting like 6000-9000% quality and now i can barely get above 3000 wiht 300 000 gems
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Lv.2237 Hellstone is not the relative maximum, the relative max is now set at about 10^47 money, which when tested got me to around Lv. 1290, before my flash crashed, it would not go above 1.4789 x 10^47 money.
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@JH34D Costing gold is one reason... but the main reason mass-crafting (using 11+ gems at once) isn't worth it, is because it goes through the process the full, let's say 39 times.
The chances are high (more than 50%) that the best pick will be created in one of the first 20 tries. But it goes on with the other 19, even if you have a pick of 1.000% quality (which wouldn't happen if you were clicking manualy, you'd stop when you got a satisfactory pick). Hence, it literaly wastes gems that you'd keep if you went through each of them in turns. In addition to costing gold.
Then again, it saves you 39 individual clicks, which is boring and takes time off mining... so I still do it.
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By the time you get around hellstone 50, wasting your gems may actually be worth it. It simply takes too long to get a sufficient upgrade to the blacksmith, and you are better off trying for a higher quality pick in the meantime.
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@flameaim: No, using more gems *is* worth it, especially at the higher levels. Just be sure to max out the blacksmith's skill/expertise as well! (Once I upgrade my pick, I raise my blacksmith skill quite a bit before trying to make a new pick. It's slow, but you'll be wasting gems if you don't.)
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@flameaim as of what I've read, it just takes the best out of N tries if you use N gems. They say it probably isn't worth it because it costs gold. I think it can be usefull tho, if you're farming gems while on another tab, having to click craft 250+ times isn't really great