8 minutes for hard rome, how does that work. I mean just getting to the markets and running them through, never mind clicking to the merc camps etc, Also how much of that you figure is starting with such high AP and how much from artifacts. I'd assume that 8 hours of SAC and TW makes the first market a breeze compared to without but still.
New bonus: +1 slot Kept: Legendary AV, TW, SAC, A$B, ACampB, CB and HB, Epic RCB, TS and FH Bonuses: +8 slots, +75% AP
More AP makes a big difference! I was able to do L2 hospitals for most levels starting from FL, which really helps. I was also able to skip China and AEG this time around. Even though I slow played this one again (no CW bonuses), I still hit the AP requirement for SA in record time for me (14 days, compared to 20 days for the last slow played SA). I had a slight delay at the end for digging and artifact crunching as I had some quite lousy luck with high % UC digs this time. The P4 grind at the end is still painful, albeit less so than before.
Well that's interesting, it stopped working for me and others long ago. Maybe you had old Idle code cached that you were still running (left Idle open always, never hit F5?) that let you still get the bonus up until now.