what the...? people are super asc multiple times in less than 2 weeks. how? buying a lot of powers? that's crazy.
Ivan0 is doing the Hex Earth strat, which involves using a few Inspire Merc powers on the Hex Earth map in each super-ascension. I guess that there's no need to actually buy the powers yet. There're plenty of Inspire Merc powers to grab on the maps.
I never played Hex Earth. I super-ascend every 2-3 weeks without using powers. It is achieved just simply following the market strat and getting familiar with the maps. After super-ascending for a few times, with the help of a good AP bonus from super-ascension and the insane army cache boost artifact, market strat works pretty early on. Like starting at Fort Harbor or Reconquest I already have enough mercs to clear the whole map.
Here's my diary of what's happened between my 9th super-ascension (1st Dec) and my 10th super-ascension (19th Dec). The dates are the starting dates of the levels, not the ending dates. A day ends when I sleep (so 2am 5th Dec counts as 4th Dec). In case you wonder why the level time of the last few days became a lot longer, it's due to real life duties related to university semester ending (and also waiting for digs so I can upgrade my army camp boost to legendary).
Probably Ivan0 is doing similar things, but using Hex Earth instead of Hardened Old Town+Hardened Scandinavia to grind AP.
1st Dec Super ascend 9: +125% AP insane time warp insane army cache boost legendary alloy value epic supercharge army camp upgrading-to-epic army camp boost rare hospital boost
Tutorial 1m Huruey 1h8m Floating 3h27m War of the Worlds 1h3m UrsaLuna 9h
2nd Dec Final Earth 5h31m Drakemor 7h Peloponnesian 1h40m KPX 12h
3rd Dec Siege 6h Japan 7h CCC 15h
4th Dec Geopolitics 13h
5th Dec Breaking 10h Far Land 14h
6th Dec Reconquest 7h Fort Harbor 5h52m Europe1066AD 9h
7th Dec AD1045 5h44m Old Town 9h Orbis 8h
8th Dec Scandinavia 8h Asiapop 4h22m Africa 12h
9th Dec Rise 7h Australia 6h Netherlands 15h
10th Dec Hardened Far Land 3h35m Hardened Scandinavia 6h Hardened Old Town 7h
11th Dec Afroeurasia 9h Europe Huge 5h2m Hardened CCC 4h12m Hardened Old Town (replay) 14h
12th Dec Hardened Scandinavia (replay) 5h12m Hardened Old Town (replay) 46m ascend Tutorial 0m Japan 39m Hardened Old Town 11h
13rd Dec Scandinavia 4h34m Hardeed Scandinavia 4h14m Europe Huge 11h
14th Dec ascend Japan 37m Scandinavia 5h49m Hardened Scandinavia 3h5m Hardened Old Town 1h23m Hardened Old Town (replay) 52m Hardened Old Town (replay) 1h26m Hardened Scandinavia 3h34m Europe Huge 59m ascend Japan 5h16m
15th Dec Scandinavia 59m Hardened Old Town 47m Europe Huge 5h21m Hardened Scandinavia 1h6m ascend Japan 20m Hardened Old Town 31m Hardened Old Town (replay) 50m unlock simultaneous levels 2 Scandinavia 1h11m Hardened Scandinavia 4h34m Europe Huge 6h Hardened Old Town (replay) 2h3m ascend Japan 1h11m Hardened Old Town 52m Scandinavia 1h7m Hardened Scandinavia 19h Europe Huge 20h
16th Dec Hardened Old Town (replay) 1h9m ascend Japan 1h29m Scandinavia 2h19m Hardened Scandinavia 6h Hardened China 23h
17th Dec Hardened Old Town 6h Europe Huge 7h Hardened Old Town 5h13m ascend Japan 36m Scandinavia 8h Hardened Old Town 8h
18th Dec Hardened Scandinavia 13h Hardened Old Town 12h Europe Huge 1d1h
19th Dec ascend Japan 2h36m Scandinavia 5h17m
Super ascend 10: +150% AP insane time warp insane army cache boost legendary alloy value upgrading-to-legendary army camp boost upgrading-to-rare supercharge army camp uncommon hospital boost
I never recorded the investment order in detail. Maybe I shall start doing this when I super-ascend again, which shall happen within a few days.
The rough order is usually something like: 1. Joint strike 25% and increased army camp production 80%-100% 2. Additional mercs until unlocking phase 2 3. 5% auto-conquer 4. Continue on additional mercs until I start running out of money 5. 50% merc discount 6. Additional merc 110-120% 7. Alloy value 100% and additional merc 120-140% 8. Unlock phase 3: 5% auto-upgrade camp, max resources cache, army camp discount, crafter speed 9. Max can skip levels and additional merc, maybe statistics as well 10. Start with tech 4 11. Max increased bonus money 12. Max better hospitals 13. 5% advanced-auto-conquer 14. Simultaneous levels 2 (maybe faster digging first if I need artifacts), and push increased army camp production to 300%-500% 15. Max increased army cache 16. Invest in whatever I feel like for the super-ascension requirement
