Hutch
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Samwise
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Pennilenko
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Merusk
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Goddamnit.. There went an hour.
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Viin
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Someone unplug it! Ahhhhhhh  |
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schild
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Sigh. Can't stop. Must swarm.
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Triax
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Ironwood
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You're not sorry at all, you bawbag. |
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schild
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Yea, you bunnahabhain.
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Paelos
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I've taken to playing it while watching basketball games. It's just a nice background game to other stuff.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Ironwood
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It's cookieclicker with wasps and no pictures.
How odd.
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Pennilenko
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Pennilenko
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Teleku
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Hmm, yeah. While I lost a hunk of time to this, don't think it will really stick me like cookie clicker and hero clicker did. The graphics and other mechanics made those more engaging.
Though I'm sure some psycology student could write a good paper on why these particular type of stupid 'games' are so damn addicting.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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schild
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Every upgrade level is the same base math. It's actually pretty fucking boring.
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Pennilenko
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I was finally able to close the browser tab it was open in. I feel like I have won or something. I don't know.
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RhyssaFireheart
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After a certain point, any upgrades are pretty useless and it's best to just let it run until you gather enough items to buy another (greater) queen in order to eventually get a hive. Not sure what else there is to do.
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grebo
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Larvae seems to be the bottleneck for most of the time. Buying those upgrades is priority.
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Why don't you try our other games?
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Samwise
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The fact that the resource at each level is a producer for the previous level gives it a bit more of an addictive power creep quality than Cookie/Hero Clicker have.
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Merusk
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Larvae seems to be the bottleneck for most of the time. Buying those upgrades is priority.
Yep. Also the Larva= 2 or 3x spawns upgrades seem to be only sinks after the first tier or second tier. Watching your purchase vs spawns per second on the Drone, Queen, Hive side it seemed I wasted more Larva and bugs doing anything beyond the 1st. Your production/ second overtakes the purchasing power pretty quickly. Larva seem better used on the territory side, climbing that ladder. ed: Oh, Rhyssa said that already. And goddamnit I'm Min/ maxing a number counter. |
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Engels
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I've left it running overnight at work. I'm gonna beat all of you!
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Samwise
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Apparently it "remembers" your progress and gives you full credit for time elapsed even if the tab isn't open.
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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lamaros
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The cookies got me last time, but this? Fiddled for 5 mins, said 'I've done this before' and moved on to other ways to spend my time.
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RhyssaFireheart
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 Hmm, gonna see if there's anything worth doing with this today, otherwise it was an amusing distraction for sure. |
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Ironwood
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I don't get Cocoons. What's the point there ?
And don't say Wilfred Brimley.
EDIT : Nevermind.
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Pennilenko
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Ironwood
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Nope, done. Hive Empress was bad enough, but now with Swarmling II it's just recycling content.
Done.
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Engels
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Meat
Meat is delicious. All of your swarm's creatures eat meat.
You own 474.709 decillion meat.
You earn 537.410 nonillion meat per second.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Samwise
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I mean, since we're measuring... Hive queens oversee the production of hives in the largest swarms.
You own 6.06720 million hive queens.
Each produces 24 hives per second. (×4 bonus)
In total, they produce 145.612 million hives per second.
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Meat is delicious. All of your swarm's creatures eat meat.
You own 6.88597 quattuordecillion meat.
You earn 55.2434 tredecillion meat per second. No hive empresses yet, but I'm close. |
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Ironwood
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Why ? Why are you close ?
WHY ??!
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lamaros
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Ironwood, this is Samwise. I hope you enjoy to be meeting him. This is not abnormal behavior for him and you should expect more in the future.
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Samwise
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Ironwood, this is Samwise. I hope you enjoy to be meeting him. This is not abnormal behavior for him and you should expect more in the future.
You're just jealous of my meat. It's understandable. |
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Ironwood
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Ironwood, this is Samwise. I hope you enjoy to be meeting him. This is not abnormal behavior for him and you should expect more in the future.
I'm well aware. But given the sheer amount of time he's spent putting the dick in Minethings and some seriously head hurting other distractions, I literally have no clue how he has time for this nor how he can manage to put in the effort time and time again. |
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Samwise
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The amount of effort it takes to click a couple of things a few times a day or so literally does not register on my effort-o-meter. That's the entire appeal of this type of game for me, in fact; it's the same illusion of achievement over time you get from a MMO, but with a tiny percentage of the actual time investment and expended effort.  What I can't fathom is how any of you have the patience for stuff like WoW. |
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