Paperclips

adolf hamster · 7 Dec 2017 at 14:31

valve90210 said:
Everything was going nicely, then I noticed the slider for the work/think bit, I moved it towards think and the time for my swarm gift went from infinity to 2 minutes. I left it and when I should have received my gift I didn't get anything, the status went to x and everything stopped working. I reloaded the page to see if that would help and that's when the swarm options appeared but still nothing is doing anything....

the swarm gifts are trust, basically it allows you to generate trust if you need more to get enough ops for some policies, but if you put it all the way right it'll stop your drones working at all.

generally it's best to leave it so that your accumulated mass and wire are going up still (so your factories dont run dry)

valve90210 · 7 Dec 2017 at 14:34

yeah I realised that but now they don't work at all. and nothing is doing anything, seems it might be the end of this for me. ho hum

Greebo · 7 Dec 2017 at 15:01

make your swarm work more rather than think until your are harvesting positive matter and converting positive matter. Then your papclip production will go up. Build more drones and harvestors and factories until the univers is out of energy.

Flubble · 7 Dec 2017 at 15:02

keep running strategic modeling tournaments to get 5000 yomi and synchronize the swarm, that should kick them back into working

valve90210 · 7 Dec 2017 at 16:02

Greebo said:
make your swarm work more rather than think until your are harvesting positive matter and converting positive matter. Then your papclip production will go up. Build more drones and harvestors and factories until the univers is out of energy.

Even with the slider all the way over to work they won't do anything.

Flubble said:
keep running strategic modeling tournaments to get 5000 yomi and synchronize the swarm, that should kick them back into working

Tried that several times too, nothing happens.

Lakeland · 7 Dec 2017 at 16:21

Can you post a screenshot

valve90210 · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:16

I posted one on the last page

Greebo · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:19

feed, teach and clad the swarm?

valve90210 · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:20

Greebo said:
feed, teach and clad the swarm?

Tried all of those too, nothing works, even dismantling them all and recreating them...

Greebo · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:24

You definitely slid the slider all the way to work? Make more harvester and wire drones?

Greebo · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:25

There was a bit round there where I seemed to come to halt as well, just kept raising precessors and memory storage and buying the upgrades until moving the slider made them all start working again.

valve90210 · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:28

Greebo said:
You definitely slid the slider all the way to work? Make more harvester and wire drones?

Yep all the way to work Made no difference

Greebo said:
There was a bit round there where I seemed to come to halt as well, just kept raising precessors and memory storage and buying the upgrades until moving the slider made them all start working again.

I can't raise anything, got nothing extra coming in, all I can do is dismantle and remake drones, solar panels and batteries

Flubble · 7 Dec 2017 at 17:58

valve90210 said:
I can't raise anything, got nothing extra coming in, all I can do is dismantle and remake drones, solar panels and batteries

you need 10,000,000MW of battery and then disassemble everything which i think moves you onto stage 3

Lakeland · 7 Dec 2017 at 18:18

valve90210 said:
I posted one on the last page

I think you've made the same mistake I did first time round, too much memory and not enough processing power, so the creativity takes forever to increase. You need the creativity to get the bonuses so you end up waiting for an age to get them. It will be quicker to start again unfortunately.

NoNameNoNumber · 8 Dec 2017 at 15:10

Pho said:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/346900/AdVenture_Capitalist/

If you like that paperclip game, do not download this ^

Oh no... no... no NO

What have you done

valve90210 · 8 Dec 2017 at 16:38

Pho said:
When I'd unlocked ~40 trust I was able to pile a load of resources into speed / exploration in the Von Neuman Probe Design - about 8 I think. Doing that in combination with replication meant it went from 0% to 100% exploration in about two minutes.

How did you unlock extra trust? I'm up to my maximum of 20 and I'm not getting any more projects or anything, and seemingly not getting any wire made either, though paperclips still seem to be being made??

Pho · 8 Dec 2017 at 16:50

NoNameNoNumber said:
Oh no... no... no NO
What have you done

. Angel investors are your friend

valve90210 said:
How did you unlock extra trust? I'm up to my maximum of 20 and I'm not getting any more projects or anything, and seemingly not getting any wire made either, though paperclips still seem to be being made??

Hmm can you post a screenshot of your current set-up? I can't remember off-hand but that may help!

Greebo · 8 Dec 2017 at 17:00

valve90210 said:
How did you unlock extra trust? I'm up to my maximum of 20 and I'm not getting any more projects or anything, and seemingly not getting any wire made either, though paperclips still seem to be being made??

Up your combat skill and rack up your honour and spend honour in increasing the 20 max limit until you have enough trust to rake up the speed and exploration.

valve90210 · 8 Dec 2017 at 17:01

It's ok, I just needed to up the self-replication so I ended up with squillions of probes and it all started going nice and quickly again

AHarvey · 8 Dec 2017 at 18:35

My laptop ran out of memory and crashed it

8gb