At the moment, I barely have unlocked phase 3 (i.e., SL 6) when I go to HEX. And then I finish the super on HEX, without ever ascending or going back. The total time where I have phase 4 advancements is usually less than a very few hours before resetting everything to zero ;)
I am pretty close to being able to super again, pushing it like a "mad lad" but damn it's so exhausting and like last time I question why the hell do I bother. Again seriously thinking of going full achievement whoring more and forgetting about any more supering.
Gotta love those phase 4 things, massive clam requests, 100 percent Army Cache better hospitals etc. Pretty much can ignore the tech tree on all levels except for Trisk and probably the last 3 hardened [plus super levels which seem near impossible to get anyway.] and can pretty much ignore hospitals or at most do one level. Life is good.
About 18.5K to max out additional mercs, +100 for army camps, triple strike and max out money cache Say 10.5 for maxed out AV, discounted mercs and AP bonus on level 2 13.2 to max out skip levels 42.2 total to get there, he is close.
But he gets 30X AP on every level, At that point he could do a level that has a base of about 100 AP and he is there, another level perhaps and do some hardened to super and he is done son. With all those AP and artifacts he should be able to rip through levels pretty fast.
Or... don't max out additional mercs all the way right away, get the 10 skip levels, do a level or two, then max it out AM then hit hardeneds.
I guess by this point he has enough that more +100 APs won't make an actual difference in terms of speeding through levels. Until he can hit maxed out army cache and improved hospitals.
I guess the big push now is to start with enough AP to super right away, it's been done. That seems to be the big end goal.
I start with skip 6. After the tutorial that gets me to Peloponnesian War. Skip 10 would get to Copper Creek Castle, but that is a much slower level, and I only need to make it to Far Land to be done with normal levels. Then I don't need skip10 till after Hardened Old Town.
Tutorial x 3 (while spending start ap) Peloponnesian War 0.10 hr Far Land 0.40 hr Hardened Far Land 0.52 hr Hardened Old Town 0.45 hr Hardened Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 0.28 hr
Next bump in speed will be enough start ap to skip Hardened Far Land (9000 more).
