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So completing my second run, the game is still pretty much pet shop boys ("go west" :p). I have more than 4000 farms, and pretty much all research I can afford at my level, and still my home food generation is contributing for 0% of y total generation (which is currently 1.7 quintillion).
But before going deep in west, you need to prepare. The game is all about setting up as much army as you can, by farming East first, for mega cash, and ramp up both your Weapon Facilities and Research facilities. Both need Tooling to be build, and tooling is used by the population. If you go too far west, you won't be able to build enough tool factory to make up for the demand. And since it's food generated by spoil of war, you can't reduce it. Once you are confident you build up enough research and weapon, you can go west like crazy and let the game run idle a while when you are at your roadblock. I again manage to multiply my genes by x10 00 (from 12 million to hundreds of billions)
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With medecine, the populations lives longer, fine. But wouldn't it make also sense to make people work longer as well? If average life rises to be in the 90s, could the population work up until they're 70 or so?
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The Year 41k after some very succesfull millitary campagnes i found that most of the country's knowledge came from foreign lands who had been conquered long ago, perhaps history repeats itself but maybe if i hire enough researchers i can stop this vicious circle...
"Taken from: thoughts of an Arch Patriarch"
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year 30.000 Sir we've found 4.5 genes. Blast it how long till we get 100? Don't know sir, but we estimate atleast a week in the god's time.
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It's mentioned that you get access to Genes at 100 mil population for genes...however, this is available from the start and thus I don't understand the answer given by the developer. Can you 'actually' customize the your population, or does this milestone just give a jump in genes available for mutation?
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Suggestion:Add Training for soldiers. So when you're idling, they can slowly build up their abilities.... if you sleep overnight....elite fighting force!
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Why is it that i was averaging 7 million pop, then all of a sudden I drop to 7 thousand? Now I can't even get past 3 million.
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i like to keep lots of unemployed people so there can be someone like me. 5 million are working hard to support my 1 million unemployed lazy moffas
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is it normal: I have 440 genes then I ascend and start with 0 in bank to dispatch. do I have to wait to go back to 100 Million people to see them?
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Explanation for why food seems to stop going up after a while, and what Better Foods does: Food that's gathered by farmers eventually expires. Due to that, once you've been producing food long enough for food to start expiring, your stored food changes based on what's being produced/how much is expiring. Better Foods makes it so food doesn't expire as soon, meaning you can have more food stored. That makes your population more unstable because it'll keep growing for longer past when your population requires more food than you produce, leading to longer periods of growth and decline. Hope it helps!
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My food production is 4500 and demand is 4200,then change is +300. production is more than consume. But my stoch dont increase as much as change,what is worse,my stock does decrease. what happened? bug?? i dont want to play this game anymore.
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What is a good building ratio(how many farms for every wood cutter) i always end up having to build more farms to feed my population and can never focus on building anything else.
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The game didn't save for me on safari. Anyone fancy giving me a save code? I was about 12 hours in if anyones around the same point now. Much obliged.
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Knowledge seems be a wall right now at least late game after the nerf of West, so make it so West gives the same knowledge as before or as someone else said let knowledge from war be affected with genes
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Really wish it was possible to filter away all but the most recent completed achievements. It would make that screen so much more readable.
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This game really needs a way to adjust priorities (Have cars fill up before wood or sth) and ratios (Distribute your people 5 farm:4 cars:3 wood:2 etc.)
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i didnt spend all my genes at once, but after i spent some few extra after a day or so, all my prior gene input got erased and only the new ones came into play D: I hope that's not how it was intended, bcs it rly just took 5 days of gametime away from me.
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I got -897.32 million men, absolute value still growing :) probably should disallow population of age brackets to go into negatives
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@duckiesrockzorz: got the same bug. After first attack, the same number of people and weapons does much less dmg (about 1/2 in my case). Going on hold for 1 year is enough to reset it and have high dmg again.
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Found a weird glitch - When fighting a country and failing to take a single tile, but doing damage to it, the attack power for my army falls drastically (about 40%) every time. It's not a lack of weapons nor lack of population, both of those numbers remain the same, only the attack power drops.
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if all your men die then your women die in war apparently the kids die automatically and you start over at 1000 people
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did something strange change with war? i can't keep a stable pop and my men are getting killed off. seams only women go to any other job but barracks.
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100 million people, start customizing your people? how, other than resetting, which at only 39.7 genes like hell if I'm going to do that.
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Using 8000 genes, I managed to conquer West 115 (food, 20 trillion), which gives me now about 40 trillion food. Now I am at a road block because I can't produce enough Tools and Car to catch up to buy more Research and Weapon facilities, to cope with the cost of research and weapons for war. As soon as you conquer too much west, you can't even kill your population enough (the west food is constant, can't be reduced and instability doesn't kill enough) to get some tools / cars. So you need to prepare as much as possible high level of research and weapon facility, and then throw all you can to the west, capitalize genes and ascend when hitting the road block. The first run might be harder now though ( I manage 8000 genes, with 4000 thanks to the pre-nerf condition). I will see if the diminishing returns hit hard or if I can continue to multiply my amount of genes by more than x100 000 per ascend (8000 -> 11 million)
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So finish my first run, 8000 genes piled up (about 5 billion population)
On the second run, I am now at 11 million genes pile up.
Both time, even with the nerf to the west population, it's still all about conquering far West contries. I have a population of 11 trillion inhabitant, most of which are feed by West countries. I am guessing the people who started to play pre-nerf with the same technique as I used, must be in the decadecillion genes (seeing that when the nerf hit, I got my population from 500 billion to 4 billion...). Whatever nerf will be thrown at them will never overcome the advantage build up from that time....
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played and played for days, had 1.5 genes saved up. Ascended. Rounded down to 1. 1 Gene only increased wood production by 0.5%. Rage flipped my computer desk. 2/5
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West food production reduction update was definitely something this game needed. I can't be mad about huge population crash afterwards. Game is going in the right direction in regards of balancing, great job :)
Hopefully we will see some new features soon.
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here's a tip, go to war, increase the size of your army and send your people to an early grave. the dead don't eat. get the hint? more dead - more new babies are born and you get genes even for loosing a battle. Another thing is that conquestrewards keep increasing - if you conquered enough countries your only source of income is going to be exactly that - WAR. so go out there to kill and get slaughtered both are beneficial.
on your second run you can use the "stupid" perk to keep your population in check or reduce them getting rid of all those unwanted unemployed that just waste cars and tools.
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Some suggestions: I am on 110mil population and would love to ascend now, but I only have 23 genes. I know the more birth I have the faster I get this genes and it goes faster and faster the more population I have. But as I play this game now quite a few days and progression goes slower and slower I feel like I need a restart now. Next thing is the war, or better the upgrades for soilders: Fr example West 32 has 1.29 mil soilders and 354607 attack and I have 4.36 mil soilders and only ~170000 attack means for me "West" got MUCH more soilders and weapon upgrades. I have soilders attack 3, weapon effectivness 1 soilder gear 1. The first 2 upgrades are so damn expensive that I never can keep up with the enemies. My suggestion reduce the costs of this upgrades. Then a little request: I would love to see how much people born each year, how much people died to illness and how much people died to age each year. You need this info anyway, if you could show them somehow, i would love that ;)
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Does increasing Stupid decrease the % of people who reach retirement? If so, I can see getting stupid/babies up to like 20% and having rapid reproduction with nobody reaching retirement age...
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Oooh! make a 'Daycare' building you can unlock with tech that each worker can take care of a base of the children of 5 women, increasing the working population by a net of 4/worker. Of course, production upgrades...
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@Zypheron: I just hit 100mil population. The war is a nice thing as long as you have the people to go on war. The best thing you get in early game is the extra knowledge. My tipp is dont go for medicine as long as you dont need the money (maybe produce around 10% from what they demand). Go for knowledge. Allways have enough cars and tools. Aim for 5 mil population, then you get 25% extra farm workers, that kicks you directly to 6.5 mil population. I am on 100 mil population (When you hit 60mil you get another +25% farm worker that kicks you to to 75 mil. So with the archivments and the research its not that hard. But I have only 20 genes right now. So its still a long way to my first ascendation. I think the game runs too slow. WAY TO SLOW