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Stage 3 has totally confused me. I feel like there's more to it because everyone here keeps saying "you'll know for sure when you get to the end" but nothing ha

Stage 3 has totally confused me. I feel like there's more to it because everyone here keeps saying "you'll know for sure when you get to the end" but nothing has happened for a _really_ long time. I've launched maxed out my probe designs (20/20 max trust), launched 13mil (got a loop running just continuously launching them) but I'm still at 0% universe explored and no new projects in a while. Got a random limerick because my creativity built up to half a mil, but it didn't actually do anything. I'm just leaving it running in the background in case something eventually happens because right now I don't know what to do next. I'm about 6 hours into this bloody game so I don't want to just call it quits now lol

war1025 6y ago
I haven't actually found much useful on this site [1], but it's the thing I looked up that let me know I was on "Stage 3". Otherwise I would have had no idea that's what it was called. Maybe it has more in depth information available? [1] https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Universal_Paperclips_Wiki https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Universal_Papercli...
- jordanwallwork 6y ago
  Thanks, I saw this but still wasn't sure I was missing something. Evidently there's a project that kicks in when you have 10mil probes lost in combat. I've been at this stage for probably 2 hours now and have only lost 250k probes in combat. Given that people have completed this game in 5-6 hours I feel like I must be doing something wrong
  - garmaine 6y ago
    You need to invest much more in self replication. You’re not getting anywhere because you’re not growing your numbers.
davidivadavid 6y ago
Can you think of a way to get way more probes?
garmaine 6y ago
Dump as much as you can into self-replication as your goal here is more probes. And be careful letting it run in the background... you need to keep the drifters at bay, and they get progressively harder. Until you get over 20 max trust, you’ll probably have to be moving points back and forth between combat and replication. If they overpower you it can be a long slog to recover your numbers.
- jordanwallwork 6y ago
  Oh brilliant thanks, I didn't understand what drifters were and their numbers were just steadily growing. Took me about 10 mins after reading your comment to get the next project unlocked and increase my max trust a few times. Fortunately the game had been streadily grinding in the background so I had more than enough creativity / yomi etc. Phew!
  - garmaine 6y ago
    If you let the drifters get out of control they will just keep destroying you before you can build your numbers up. If that happens, invest 1:1 in speed and self-replication. Their problem is that they can’t replicate, so at least the number of drifters won’t increase. You’ll be able to dodge them in combat until your numbers surpass theirs, then go back to the regular strategy of a balanced but replication-heavy profile. With 30+ points you should be fine though.
crazygringo 6y ago
Having just finished it... there's really no point at which you have to let things run on their own for more than a minute or two. If you are... it means you're missing a setting that will boost your next stage of exponential growth. In your case... well since you need to explore more, that means either making your probes explore more, explore faster, or more probes to do that... It's all in the probe design! :)
- war1025 6y ago
  I feel like I must have messed something up in the last section because it took an hour or two longer than I feel like it should have. But now I have won the game. So that seems good.

war1025 6y ago

I haven't actually found much useful on this site [1], but it's the thing I looked up that let me know I was on "Stage 3". Otherwise I would have had no idea that's what it was called. Maybe it has more in depth information available? [1] https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Universal_Paperclips_Wiki https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Universal_Papercli...

jordanwallwork 6y ago
Thanks, I saw this but still wasn't sure I was missing something. Evidently there's a project that kicks in when you have 10mil probes lost in combat. I've been at this stage for probably 2 hours now and have only lost 250k probes in combat. Given that people have completed this game in 5-6 hours I feel like I must be doing something wrong
- garmaine 6y ago
  You need to invest much more in self replication. You’re not getting anywhere because you’re not growing your numbers.

davidivadavid 6y ago

Can you think of a way to get way more probes?

garmaine 6y ago

Dump as much as you can into self-replication as your goal here is more probes. And be careful letting it run in the background... you need to keep the drifters at bay, and they get progressively harder. Until you get over 20 max trust, you’ll probably have to be moving points back and forth between combat and replication. If they overpower you it can be a long slog to recover your numbers.

jordanwallwork 6y ago
Oh brilliant thanks, I didn't understand what drifters were and their numbers were just steadily growing. Took me about 10 mins after reading your comment to get the next project unlocked and increase my max trust a few times. Fortunately the game had been streadily grinding in the background so I had more than enough creativity / yomi etc. Phew!
- garmaine 6y ago
  If you let the drifters get out of control they will just keep destroying you before you can build your numbers up. If that happens, invest 1:1 in speed and self-replication. Their problem is that they can’t replicate, so at least the number of drifters won’t increase. You’ll be able to dodge them in combat until your numbers surpass theirs, then go back to the regular strategy of a balanced but replication-heavy profile. With 30+ points you should be fine though.

crazygringo 6y ago

Having just finished it... there's really no point at which you have to let things run on their own for more than a minute or two. If you are... it means you're missing a setting that will boost your next stage of exponential growth. In your case... well since you need to explore more, that means either making your probes explore more, explore faster, or more probes to do that... It's all in the probe design! :)

war1025 6y ago
I feel like I must have messed something up in the last section because it took an hour or two longer than I feel like it should have. But now I have won the game. So that seems good.