I'm only getting 30% for Couch Potato, but others have said it's 50%.

Wondering if it's just me or if it changed.

I'm only getting 30% for Couch Potato, but others have said it's 50%.
Wondering if it's just me or if it changed.

It's a 30% bonus. The reference to 50% is that it's a 50% increase. It used to be 20%, so +50% = 30%.

Has anyone confirmed that super power Inspire Mercenaries actually pays out?

Confirmed, using an IM consumes 5 IMs and gives 10x the value of the single target merc camp you select. So choose wisely!

And Hospital Boost never was way overpowered. 64% on Insane-level is still reasonable. Because that isn't 64% of all the armies, but 64% of the original savings.

Exactly . . . I felt it was underpowered tbh, notably in the lower levels. Rare now @ 8% means if you save 100M, you save 108M, which is pretty small imho.

Edited 8/23/2021 04:28:40

So, I'm just doing all the hardened levels for their special rewards. And so I now have the improved draft indicators. I clearly noticed the higher frequency of the indicator. But can someone point me to the answer, in which way they got "bigger"? Does that mean the line is now thicker (more visible on low zoom scales)? Or is the circle at its max covering a larger area? I can't say that I noticed either of these effects. So, to me it seems as if just the frequency got improved. I mean, the higher frequency alone is really nice and helps a lot (the animation starts every 10 seconds and lasts/grows for 6, so half the time you will see something moving, even at a short glimpse). And the rate of growth seems pretty much the same as before. Sadly, I never checked those timings on the original indicators, because I hadn't known back then that it would be good to know these details before I got the improved version.

3 differences:
- more frequent, every 5 secs instead of 30 secs
- circles move faster
- circles move farther

I didn't accurately measure the last 2, but I know on certain maps that certain pings simply didn't reach where I was looking, for example on Europe Huge, a draft ping in East Russia would never have reached Scandinavia before, now it does.

In order to facilitate the farther distance and repeat every 5 secs, it moves quicker.

Before I found I had trouble finding draft pings, now I have trouble missing them. (; They just appear on the screen almost regardless of where I'm looking - which is good, that's the purpose of the circles to begin with imho.

It’s a good thing that draft becomes easier to find but to be honest I really don’t see the point of having draft potions moving around the screen. Imo there should be a fixed button lightning up when you can collect.

can you add the tiny detail that stacks multiplied by x1.5 on average?

What do you mean?

i tried comparing the armies between old Orbis and new Orbis when I fogbusted the whole map and I discovered that the stacks went from 236.3B to about 350B .

Fizzer redistributed all the maps. It’ll be inconsistent across the board. No way to verify, and don’t want to post misleading info.

well, ok.

While playing an Idle level, the rewards 4 hour timer expired but the game did not display the icon to restart it. I had to close the game and restart it to display the icon. (It works fine if the timer expires while the game is idle. It displays properly when I return.)

I've seen all sorts of variants of that issue Marc ... sometimes it happens, sometimes it's doesn't.

Has anyone had success recently getting the "Achieve 50M money / sec in Idle" achievement? Fizzer dropped it from 100M to 50M with this update, but it seems to me that it is still impossible with the current levels.

From what I have seen, Hardened Triskelion is probably the highest income level, and I'm not even close to 50M. The highest I'm aware of on this level is about 19M/Sec with the following:
- Legendary Bonus Money Boost Artifact.
- Maxed Bonus Money AP advancement
- All Bonus/Territory Techs unlocked.

You may be able to get it above 20M with a good territory money boost artifact, but I don't see a realistic path to more than doubling that money/sec mark.

DELETED: sorry, I thought this was about army income ;)

EDIT: Are there Clan Wars rewards that improve money income? And: You can simultaneously use a Territory Money Boost artifact.

Edited 9/16/2021 12:06:43

@MWL

I think 49M money per second is theoretically possible with the following setup.

* Revision 16 United States
* +100% Increased Money from Bonuses advancement
* Insane Territory Money Boost artifact
* Insane Bonus Money Boost artifact
* Full Techs

It could be possible that some levels are even better than Revision 16 United States.

I have the "Achieve 50M money / sec in Idle" though I probably got it when it was 100M/sec and way back when money was different. It was easy then, think I was actually earning hundred's of B/sec at some points. Now it seems that it'd be pretty difficult. I've had a number of 9-10M/sec.

So maybe with some better artifacts & popping with SACs, you might be able to get to it. It'd only be briefly but should be long enough for the achievement to pop.

Edited 9/17/2021 08:14:50

@krinid, I had the same idea but then re-read the question and discovered that the topic was money, not armies. To reiterate what I deleted from my answer: supercharging an army camp should work to get any of the "x armies per sec" achievement (I think I earned one this way earlier on), but there is no such power that gets you more money per sec. And selling a lot of stuff doesn't increase your static money income, at least not when it comes to this exact statistics number. So, only chance is spend AP into the right advancement(s) and have both money artifacts at insane (or at least legendary) and then find the best level to do this in.

Edit: @functor: not everyone has the option to replay previous level revisions, so if there is no chance to earn this achievement in the current level revisions, then either this achievement has to be lowered even further or this achievement is some sort of promise for a level with way higher money income that then should come pretty soon. At least that's my opinion.

Edited 9/17/2021 09:12:09

so is it even possible

Yep, the 50M/ sec achievement looks unachievable atm. I finished Hard Triskelion yesterday which seems to be the highest money generator unless USA throws me a surprise.

With all techs, no artifacts, and 100% Increased Money from Bonuses (AP advancement) I was at 13.65 M/sec.
Rare BMB adds 1.71 M/sec.
Rare TMB adds 1.12 M/sec.

This implies that:
Epic BMB => 3.42 M/sec
Leg BMB => 6.84 M/sec
Insane BMB => 13.68 M/sec

Epic TMB => 2.24 M/sec
Leg TMB => 4.48 M/sec
Insane TMB => 8.96 M/sec

So with 100% in the advancement, all techs, and both artifacts at insane you are capped at ~36.29 M/sec.

It should probably be lowered to 15M/sec since 20M/sec requires a legendary artifacts while 25M/sec and above require an insane artifact.

Hmmm, not sure that should really be considered "possible". It's only even possible in a select few cases for someone with (a) lots of money invested to buy Legendaries to upgrade to Insanes, or (b) someone who has played the game for longer than it has been out to collect enough Insane artifacts [come back in a few years], or (c) someone who has INSANE LUCK and gets the 6% Rare and 3% Epic artifacts on every dig and is thus able to actually upgrade a get a few Insanes.

I'm doing HC, HT & HEH right now, and HEH at end is 1.44M/sec with +100% Bonus Money Adv, +80% Bonus Money artifact, +200% Territory Money artifact. So not even close.

HC also not in the ballpark. HT seems to be the highest money maker, and as per Xeno's note, it's not possible for most.

If money has gone down since the Achievement was created, it needs to follow suit.