Originally posted by /u/edible_soup
I’m not in midgame yet, but I think I’m in the late stages of early game. I’m on run 5, working on saving paragon up to buy Renaissance (which is the only price-reduction Metaphysic I have left), and I’m pretty much sitting here grinding mansions and space stations (huts and log houses are maxed out).
What I’m wondering is, what run do y’all normally start getting into time crystals and such? that seems like the obvious next step, it just also seems like waiting a billion years to have enough alicorns to make some isn’t the smartest thing either.
XenosHg
A) Unicorns depend on religion.
Your plan with religion every run should be:
B) Established that, once you casually reach 300% solar revolution (production bonus from worship) in a run, it’s feasible to prolong it past where you would reset for paragon, and instead assign your priests again and spend time praising, and once in a while, do the cycle again fill faith to cap, transcend-adore-praise again, start accumulating worship once more.
As a rule of thumb, I would do TAP (transcend adore praise) every new 50% SR, so at 300, 350, etc until close to 700-750, after which just do it whenever you have a big number of Worship, enough to make a difference in your praise bonus.
Eventually, once you start maxing your solar revolution in just one immediate explosion from 0 to Max, it will be theoretically better to transcend often, but before that, when you actually need to grow your bonus, it’s better to spend time on nurturing that.
C) Established that, if you do unicorns/alicorns while you’re spending time praising, by the end of the process you can have enough alicorns + multipliers to make ~20 TCs, with which you buy upgrades and several chronospheres to speed up next run and learn how it all works.
D) A few runs after that, you can go full power and repeat that, and get Megalomania, summon leviathans, trade with leviathans, accumulate 100+ TCs, buy Anachronomancy to preserve them, and with the relics you get from trade also research tiime travel, shatter 1 time crystal and unlock 1000 year challenge that will eventually double your profits later on.
E) to get into relics you want to finish all metaphysics except malkuth, another 1000+ paragon at least, and preferably black sky/1ky challenges at least unlocked, so you can win them both during the run. Or win at least one of them in advance, and turn the second one into relic run.
I think black sky is easily repeatable, and the reward is good.
1ky is not easily repeatable.