@Morg’th It looks like it took me about 5 months to clear those levels. I had time to kill while building my Insane artifact, so I decided to just start playing them and see how far I got. Honestly didn’t expect to beat them all, but since I have also maxed out all useful advancements (and some less useful ones) while waiting for the digs, that definitely helped.
I do have Simultaneous Levels at 3, but I wasn’t using it for those levels. I was playing one of them at a time, and then using the other 2 slots to play other pre-Europe Huge levels to dig in and so I wouldn’t get bored. Now I am using my 3 levels as: 1 sitting on Hex Earth simply for all its Digs. I also happened to complete the Build All Techs achievement since I had the time. 1 cycling back through the post-Europe Huge levels working on Build All Techs in those. 1 playing pre-Europe Huge levels just for fun
All this to kill time in building an Insane artifact that I don’t even really need unless I just feel like slogging back through it all again with no real purpose.
"All this to kill time in building an Insane artifact that I don’t even really need unless I just feel like slogging back through it all again with no real purpose. "
Yeah after that first super, the rewards of pushing harder seem kinda pointless. Get more stuff so you can more stuff so you can get more stuff.
Finally feel like I have enough slots to make progress on AP% again. It’s taken ages to get to a place where I can carry over 4 Legendary + 2 Epic before knocking the remainder back down for the next Insane.
as I'm approaching my first super ascension (35k more ap points) I realized I belong on this thread cause taking years for the first SA must be a record ! And I am the holder of thus record,
New bonus: +1 slot Kept: Legendary AV, TW, SAC, A$B, ACampB, Epic HB and CB. Bonuses: +5 slots, +50% AP
Chucked another two Epics, which is sad. This should be the last time for that though. Two spare slots for Epics should allow me to alternate between +%AP and +1 slot, making a new Legendary every other SA without having to chuck Epics. I may take one more extra slot first before doing so as SAs are getting fast enough that digging for one Epic has become the bottleneck, and doing so would allow me to avoid that problem. A problem for future me to solve.
The difference having a HB makes is not to be underestimated. For SA6 I just didn't have one because RNG said no. For SA7 I carried over the Epic HB and that singlehandedly shaved 6 days off of my SA time (from 23 days down to 17 days to hit the AP requirement), which was substantially more impactful than I expected it to be.