Nice! updated.

I'm on #4

what the...? people are super asc multiple times in less than 2 weeks. how? buying a lot of powers? that's crazy.

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.

@Mr_Perfect

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

Super ascension sucks. You just go back to being a noob.

No, my 1st normal ascencion took 1 year, and 2 weeks after SAsc, I got to the new levels

@Mathematician

Many thanks for you detailed diary.
Could you please also add the order you invest the AP in advancements every time you super-ascend?

@Arcturus

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

no idle time invest ? u play with 2h cap?

My phase 3 advancements are:
+10 Skip Level (max)
+2 Tech
+17 Merc Camp Visibility (max)
+85% Money from Bonuses
+7 Market Visibility (max)

All the Phase 3 advancements are not very useful late-game regardless so I just took some quality-of-life ones to hit the requisite 25,000 AP (mine comes out to 25,061 AP).

Other than that I do pretty much exactly what Mathematician does. The one other difference is I rode Hex Earth until I ran out of Skip Level + Inspire Merc powers while he is saving his (for a future patch?). Probably good arguments on each side there.

Just did my 11th super-ascension. This time I'm planning to record my precise AP investment order along with level time.
+175% AP
4 extra artifact slots

0 for me

I guess the question is why do more than 1? Are you trying to get faster digging? Just for the lulz?

12.5 days 10th super, 1.5 extra days battling for IM power.

Updated

5e 8-10% nerf from rare to epic hospital boost sucks but why no time warp ivano ?

Most of my gameplay I have no fourth boy, so I hate giving up two slots to actives. That said. one just hadn't come up for me till now. TW is my next lego plan.

@knaan

Oops I missed your question. Yes I mostly play with 2h idle time cap. 2h is usually enough. I rarely need to wait for more than 2h. With the way I play, waking up with 10h of idle progress won't help me more than waking up with 2h of idle progress.

Just did my 12th super-ascension. This is my first sub-2-weeks super-ascension. As Arcturus suggested, this time I recorded my AP investments in detail. I also recorded the boosts I used for each level. By boost, I mean powers, active artifacts, clan request armies.

Boosts are recorded inside the brackets.
eSACa=my epic supercharge army camp artifact
iTWa=my insane time warp artifact
cra=clan request army
drFCp=daily reward door gave me free cache power, and I was forced to use it immediately due to having at least 5 already
similar for drSACp, drSMp, drSLp, drFBp

Short summary:
6th Jan: 11th super-ascension
8th Jan: reach phase 2
14th Jan: reach phase 3
15th Jan: first ascension
16th Jan: reach phase 4
19th Jan: 12th super-ascension

Detailed summary:

6th Jan 2023
11th super-ascension
+175% AP
insane time warp, army cache boost
legendary alloy value, army camp boost
upgrading-to-epic supercharge army camp
rare hospital boost

Collect clan war rewards: -30% artifact cooldown, +10% alloy sell value, -10% merc cost

Tutorial 0m
Huruey 1h35m (drFCp)
Joint Strike 0%->5%
Floating 1h17m (iTWa)
Joint Strike 5%->11%
War of the World 5h21m (cra:6.03M)
Joint Strike 11%->15%
Increased Army Camp Production 0%->20%
UrsaLuna 4h27m (cra:3.63M)
Joint Strike 15%->19%
Increased Army Camp Production 20%->30%
Final Earth 8h (cra:2.48M,iTWa)

7th Jan
Joint Strike 19%->21%
Drakemor 4h57m (drSACp,cra:27M)
Additional Mercenaries 0%->12.5%
Peloponnesian 4h4m (cra:2.93M)
Joint Strike 23%->25%
Additional Mercenaries 12.5%->17.5%
Increased Army Camp Production 30%->40%
KPX 9h (eSACa,cra:60M)

8th Jan
AddMerc 17.5%->25%
Increased Army Camp Production 40%->50%
Siege 6h (iTWa,eSACa)
Additional Mercenaries 25%->27.5%
unlock phase 2
autoconquer 0%->5%
get 100AP from challenge levels
Additional Mercenaries 27.5%->32.5%
Increased Army Camp Production 50%->60%
Japan 13h (drFCp,cra:6.96M,eSACa)

9th Jan
Additional Mercenaries 32.5%->42.5%
CCC 12h (iTWa,eSACa,drSACp,cra:321M)
Additional Mercenaries 42.5%->50%
Geopolitics 9h (iTWa,eSACa,cra:265M)

10th Jan
Additional Mercenaries 50%->57.5%
Breaking 13h (eSACa,iTWa,cra:288M)
Additional Mercenaries 57.5%->65%
Far Land 12h (drSLp,eSACa,cra:611M)

11th Jan
Mercenary Discount 0%->45%
Reconquest 8h (eSACa,iTWa,cra:433M)
Additional Mercenaries 65%->72.5%
Replay and quickly abort early levels to gain around 10 extra AP
Mercenary Discount 45%->50%
Fort Harbor 6h (eSACa,cra:761M)
Additional Mercenaries 72.5%->80%
Europe1066AD 5h7m (drSMp,iTWa)

12th Jan
Additional Mercenaries 80%->87.5%
AD1045 14h (eSACa,iTWa)
Additional Mercenaries 87.5%->97.5%
Old Town 5h43m (eSACa)
Additional Mercenaries 97.5%->105%
Orbis 7h (drFCp)

13th Jan
Additional Mercenaries 105%->115%
Scandinavia 2h11m (eSACa,iTWa)
Additional Mercenaries 115%->122.5%
Asiapop 9h (eSACa)
Additional Mercenaries 122.5%->130%
Increased Alloy Sell Values 0%->15%
Africa 7h (iTWa)

14th Jan
Increased Alloy Sell Value 15%->100%
Hardened Far Land 5h28m (eSACa,iTWa)
Additional Mercenaries 130%->142.5%
Rise&Fall 5h8m (eSACa)
Additional Mercenaries 142.5%->150%
Army Camp Discounts 0%->2%
Hardened Old Town 7h (drFCp)
Auto-Upgrade Army Camps 0%->5%
get 400AP from challenge levels
Increase Crafter Speed 0%->50%
Army Camp Discounts 2%->22%
Hardened Scandinavia 1h40m (eSACa,iTWa)
Increased Cache Resources 0%->30%
unlock phase 3
Can Skip Levels 0->4
Australia 9h (none)

15th Jan
Can Skip Levels 4->5
Increased Cache Resources 30%->100%
Increased Ore Sell Values 0%->55%
Europe Huge 5h31m (eSACa,iTWa)
Can Skip Levels 5->7
Hardened Scandinavia 5h11m (eSACa)
Can Skip Levels 7->9
Increased Army Camp Production 60%->110%
Hardened Old Town 5h18m (none)
Can Skip Levels 9->10
ascend
Japan 56m (drSACp)
Start With Tech 0->1
Scandinavia 52m (eSACa,iTWa)
Start With Tech 1->2
Hardened Old Town 6h (none)

16th Jan
Start With Tech 2->4
Increased Money from Bonuses 0->20%
Europe Huge 5h26m (eSACa)
Increased Money from Bonuses 20%->80%
Hardened Scandinavia 4h43m (none)
Increased Money from Bonuses 80%->100%
unlock phase 4
Better Hospitals 0%->25%
Hardened Old Town 40m (none)
Better Hospitals 25%->30%
Hardened Old Town 50m (none)
ascend
Japan 32m (eSACa)
Advanced Auto-Conquer 0%->5%
Hardened Old Town 1h31m (none)
Better Hopitals 30%->50%
Increased Army Camp Production 110%->250%
Scandinavia 17m (drFCp,iTWa)
Hardened Old Town 37m (none)
Faster Digging 0%->20%
Europe Huge 4h9m (eSACa)
Faster Digging 20%->35%

17th Jan
Hardened Scandinavia 8h (none)
Faster Digging 35%->50%
ascend
Japan 1h6m (none)
Scandinavia 1h41m (none)
Europe Huge 1h59m (eSACa,iTWa)
Hardened Old Town 41m (none)
get 100AP from challenge levels
Hardened Old Town 43m (none)
Simultaneous Levels 1->2
Hardened Old Town 29m (none)
Hardend Old Town 42m (none)
Increased Cache Armies 0%->10%
Hardened Scandinavia 2h30m(eSACa)
ascend
Increased Cache Armies 10%->45%
Japan 45m (none)
Scandinavia 1h51m (none)
Hardened Old Town 2h2m (none)
Increased Cache Armies 45%->65%
Increased Idle Time 0min->30min
Hardened Scandinavia 1h16m(drFBp)
Increase Cache Armies 65%->80%
Europe Huge 4h54m (none)
Hardened Scandinavia 4h9m (none)

18th Jan
Increased Cache Armies 80%->95%
Hardened Old Town 1h13m (none)
Increased Cache Armies 95%->100%
Statistics 0->4
Increased Ore Sell Values 55%->100%
Increased Cache Money 0%->100%
Increased Army Camp Production 250%->280%
Cache Visibility 0->5
Hardened Rise&Fall 2h (none)
Cache Visbility 5->50
Hardened China 1h39m (eSACa,iTWa)
Hardened Far Land 1h20m (none)
ascend
Japan 4h1m (none)
Hardened Old Town 20m (none)
Scandinavia 1h1m (none)
Hardened Scandinavia 2h5m (none)
Hardened Far Land 2h2m (none)
Simultaneous Levels 2->3
Europe Huge 4h28m (none)
Auto-Draft N/A->0.5
Cache Visibility 50->55
Hardened Rise&Fall 37m (none)
ascend
Auto-Draft 0.5->0
Cache Visibility 55>140
Japan 1h12m (none)
Hardened Old Town 11h (none)

19th Jan
Cache Visibility 140->200

12th super-ascension
+175% AP
insane time warp, army cache boost
legendary alloy value, army camp boost
epic supercharge army camp
rare hospital boost
rare territory money boost