@Krinid, go for smelting silver, gold and platinum, they should enable you to craft profitable alloys without being too much a pain. If you still have a mine power, use it to get silver/gold/platinum going (and upgrade the specific mine to at least 3)

Edited 4/14/2021 07:16:03

@Timi
What I find is that there is a lull in digging when starting a new level. The final dig of the previous level is still going, and when it finishes, there's a delay on the new level before (A) finding dig sites, and (B) getting enough money to dig them, whereas once a level is well underway, it's almost straight digging. So the "missing" relates more to constant dig time and keeping it going, and this takes a hit when starting new levels, so I try to time my completion of a level with getting at least most of the artifacts. I'm not fixated on getting 100% of them for the reason you stated, more of a blend of getting as many as makes sense with continuing to earn AP. But also have to keep the Tech achievements in mind ... it doesn't help me to finish the level quickly but still have Techs left to grab for the achievement, so the plan is to time the map completion to the Tech completion and keep the artifacts flowing the whole time. When I mess this mix up, I end up having tons of money and armies left over at the end of the map, but just waiting on those last Erbium, Terbium, Samarium, Dysprosium bars to finish smelting.

@Parsifal
I do have some IMs left but wondering if I'm going to need any more of them on this level. Guess it depends on how quickly I decide to rush through it ... I suppose it might be possible to use up my last MRs & IMs to finish both the Techs and have enough armies. I'm upgrading my hospitals even more, and I think at the end up it I may have close to 1.5B, so hopefully will be able to mow through all those empty territories in the northeast. Found a 90B territory as well plus a bunch of 20B and 30B ones. Fun! Makes the Active artifacts worth using.

@Olja
I do have some mine powers left, so will make use of them. Also have a Supercharge Mine artifact which I think is actually useful after the recent Active Artifact boost.

Edited 4/14/2021 08:51:01

@ krinid

better use all you Fog Busters to reveal the map. then you'll know how many merc.camps are left

I hope you have your TMB equipped and not BMB. on this map territories income is bigger than the bonuses
I say it becauseit seems like your 3rd slot is occupied with the Fog Revealer.... (why would you do that?....)

BMB is actually slightly higher than TMB right now. Depends on the map and progress within the map, sometimes TMB > BMB and sometimes the reverse, and right now TMT=219K/sec, BMB=226K/sec, no BMB slight higher but about the same. They're both Uncommon, so TMT 100%, BMB 40%. If I'm not cooling down any Active artifacts, I typically equip Army Camp Boost 20%, TMB, BMB. If 1 Active cooling down, typically TMB & BMB. 2 cooling down, the bigger of TMB & BMB.

Hell no, not using Fog Buster artifact in slot 3 (but I do have an Epic one) but it only reveals 24 fogged territories every 16 hrs which is garbage. Not worth a slot by a long shot. What you see in the image I pasted was the leftovers of using a fog buster. Big maps like this need too many to FB the whole thing from the start.

Btw ... is Ascension an automatic thing or do I have to activate it? I'm playing 2 levels now, USA + Europe Huge at same time, and once I finish Europe, I'll have completed all levels -- not sure if it just happens, or if I can push it off and active it later ... and if I do activate it, what will happen with my USA ongoing game.

Ascension is not automatic. You have to press a button and confirm that you want to ascend. As long as you don't do this, you stay with the current/already unlocked levels.

If you say "No, don't Ascend", do you lose the option or still retain the ability to activate it at a later time?

You can ascend anytime, i.e. the option remains

Thanks Olja.