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[Ianflow]

I've noticed we have a few threads, but the last one was 3 years ago
http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/

I think it updated since the previous thread....
I'm actually pretty bad at the game, and I play on Very Easy

I'm mostly hoping for any help I can get

[Aoi]

Just beat it on Very Easy after about 2 years of gametime.

Early on, one of the major bottlenecks is the cost of construction-- once you start opening offices, start hoarding money until you can pay for everything in a single lump sum. Put all your cycles into jobs until you've made enough to recoup the cost of the base, then go back to researching.

The game continues to run after the end, so you can watch as your wealth climbs astronomically-- I'm at 7 sexdecillion right now. XD

Edit: Okay, OW. Doesn't work nearly as nicely on Normal.

[Ianflow]

I found a guide after a bit, after having 6 failed games, using the guide got me a win.

I went until I had a Quintillion,a nd then quit.

Though yeah, haha.

[Aoi]

Finished it on normal.

Pretty much the same strategy-- use small stuff until you can afford an office, buy it in a lump sum, save up, repeat, etc. Once you have at least 3 offices up, start pumping the research. If they all get knocked out, drop back to using data centers/servers until the "heat" cools down a bit and you have money again. Once you get the Lunar bases up, it's basically over.

Though I DID get Science up to 80% while constructing the final base. Whoops.

[LoSboccacc]

I love this game.

There is a guide on the hardest difficulty and also an android port

[Singularity125]

Hm... any chance for a link to either of those? I do enjoy this game but the best I've managed is a win on Normal. My only qualm with it is how long it takes for the final base... there's nothing to do but to stick it on the fastest speed setting and wait. As for an Android port, now that I finally have a smartphone that would be nifty. I don't imagine it's big enough to be on Google's app store but I'll search around and see if I can find it.

[a1s]

I think it updated since the previous thread....

Download 0.30b/c, released 07-28-2010

So, not really, no.

[LoSboccacc]

Hm... any chance for a link to either of those? I do enjoy this game but the best I've managed is a win on Normal. My only qualm with it is how long it takes for the final base... there's nothing to do but to stick it on the fastest speed setting and wait. As for an Android port, now that I finally have a smartphone that would be nifty. I don't imagine it's big enough to be on Google's app store but I'll search around and see if I can find it.

Sorry i was at work.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r6appz.ESII&hl=it
http://brededor.narod.ru/text/Endgame-Singularity-IG/Endgame-Singularity-IG.html

Cannot guaranter links to work

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anyone else have that hilarious bug where the game won't accept typed numbers into the field where you tell it how many computers to build in the base?

[scrdest]

Anyone else have that hilarious bug where the game won't accept typed numbers into the field where you tell it how many computers to build in the base?

It seems it's not a bug. You're just short on funds, but not the normal ones but some sort of calculation the game comes up with for funds. Try building them in twos or threes.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anyone else have that hilarious bug where the game won't accept typed numbers into the field where you tell it how many computers to build in the base?

It seems it's not a bug. You're just short on funds, but not the normal ones but some sort of calculation the game comes up with for funds. Try building them in twos or threes.

Heh, I tried. I tried building them in ones. No number you can input will be read by the game. If you erase the default "25" for the small warehouse, for instance, and input a "2", it will tell you it's not a number. If you just erase the "5" or the "2" instead, leaving a "2" or a "5", but without adding any characters, it will accept.

It doesn't care whether or not you have the funds for it anyway.

[Omegastick]

Ha, what a coincidence, I just re-downloaded and played through this game a couple of days ago. It's a really fun concept and a fun game until you figure out that it's WAY too easily cheesed. To be give the game any semblance of difficulty I have to restrict myself from too many things (researching arbitrage, making more than a couple of bases in the grace period at the beginning, spamming Quantum Computer Mk. 3s, etc.).

If someone remade it with less opportunity for cheese and some more options for how to achieve victory (if I can make super-advanced robots then why can't I use them to take over the world?) it would be amazing.

[gimlet]

Heh it's been a while since I played this, shortly after the 0.3b version it looks like.   Anyway I won on normal, probably by getting a bit lucky 'cause reading a guide afterwards (the one with all the math for "Impossible" - that one was awesome ) it turned out I had done some VERY high risk stuff in the mid game - it was like whack-a-mole with my warehouses,  I was spamming em out to keep 2 per region, just about as fast as I could.  I never laid low at all, and I think it was only the grace period that kept me from going out in a burst of glory 'cause some of the indicators on the bottom were getting pretty fiery colored...

A few notes, a BIT spoily I guess:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This was just about at the point I had clusters then mainframes, I went mainly with Small Warehouse+Cluster because Large were too much in one basket (plus higher detect) and Mainframe and even the higher one - Quantum 1?  either took too much longer or were tooo expensive when they were going down so fast.   I only tried for a quantum filled warehouse once in a while, when I had enough cash accumulated to pay for it AND wasn't too far behind on Cluster warehouses.    I think I even tried building a few half full to be able to afford them, it was still a DAMN  nice increase when they survived a few days.

I would trickle research while doing this, pumping it up if I was way ahead and dropping it if I had to rebuild warehouses fast.  And I'd make sure there were at least 2-3 Dedicated Servers as emergency fallback at all times, I SHOULD have turned off power to them, AND all the non-quantum warehouses when a couple of quantum warehouses were cranking.  I never quite had to fall back to only those, but it was damn close a couple of times.

I never went back and improved CPUs, that was probably a mistake - the old ones would still keep working and the new ones would have been a HUGE increase for as long as they lasted.  It would probably be enough to drop down to 1 warehouse per territory with a huge decrease in detections and heat.

Anyway, I got enough ahead on whack-a-mole to accumulate money for a sea base, once I had quantums in there it was pretty steady progress after that - I decreased the land based warehouse construction rate a BIT, started another sea base and covert bases, SHOULD have turned off power on the covert bases - another oversight.  Anyway the seabase + surviving warehouses generated enough cash over a day or 2 to easily be able to burn through the intermediate research AND crank out quantum warehouses AND start another seabase and once a couple of the warehouses stuck around for a bit it was really off to the races.