first nest created!

@connorbush i need 8000 more nests! give me some of yours!

@KDemo I'm earning 13.8514 million greater queens per second. I was screaming last night that I'd never have enough to get a single hive.

It's exponential!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!

@justbuyit i left it running at work over the weekend. then, when i go in monday, i can BUILD ALL THE THINGS!!

@carl669 You have to click man, you HAVE TO CLICK!!!!!

Maybe it is just my OCD.

Med check time.

@carl669 You don't even have to leave it running. It works while you are away!

@The_Baron - Oh no! Why did you say Cookie clicker? If Swarm Sim didn't suck enough time . . .
;-]

@justbuyit Spending energy now will bring the cost down, so once you get that fourth nexus start spending. (I can't ever seem to keep from spending it anyway, don't have a fourth nexus yet.)

@justbuyit - Red Bull?

@KDemo Please. Thanks.

@djslack Thanks, I'm basically in a holding pattern now waiting on the game. Wait a sec - what's that in the documentation? You can run one instance of the game in Chrome and another in a different browser? HELL YEAH!

I noticed that someone had a 150 day total game time in their forum (through 20 ascensions IIRC - holy shit, they musty never leave the house).

Yeah okay, the whole playing two games at once in separate browsers may not have been such a great idea.

@Moose

(More) Insects shall be sent to Meh HQ.

Believe it.

@Moose you should be! But at the same time, I feel like I should thank you. And then swat you. Etc.

@hollboll Yeah, I am super paranoid about losing progress, so I copy the link into a text file every time I visit that tab.

@The_Baron I use Dropbox and it auto-saves every 15 minutes and before closing.

@justbuyit I was thinking of just setting up another Dropbox account and doing that.

@The_Baron Well, if you save to Dropbox and then turn right around and import you get an achievement! So it is worth doing!

Yes, I actually broke down and RTFM.

(Okay, parts of it)

@justbuyit Like I said, entomologist school dropout writing shitty scifi stories.

@carl669 I told you that you had to click. But you have to learn the hard way. I'm 3 days in and have the hive empress and will do first ascent tonight.

I'm earning 379.364 billion hives per second.

YOU HAVE TO CLICK MAN!

@justbuyit
I'm still only earning 13 million hives per second, and I have been clicking. It is taking for-ev-er to get 10 billion hive queens to buy the hive empress.

@KDemo There is a strategy guide on /r/swarmsim on reddit if you want to get into it that deep. It's not the clearest writing but it does confirm some of the things i thought i figured out, and shows some things I hadn't considered yet. If you started a week ago you could be earning way more than that because everything is so exponential.

This game is far larger than it appears.

@djslack - Wow, it has been a week! Not sure I'm invested enough to do the research, but I am enjoying the colorful numbers and creatures. I have invested in the "faster" option a few times, and used the "buy all upgrades" feature. Anyway, I'll probably click now and then, and sit back and watch things grow. Thanks for the info, though, others will probably benefit.

Oh, and I think it's lack of larvae that's holding me back. Hmmmm - maybe I'll just peek at that site . . .

@KDemo @djsslack

I should get the Neuroprophet today or tomorrow, then I'm going to take the first ascension after my Empress count has recovered. The strategy guide helps some, but yeah, I get "larvae locked" from time to time also and then have to let the game sit a while. Also I want my mutagen higher, I'm only at 3 million.

@justbuyit There are levels past Neuroprophet (edit, i see below you've found that). I've had 100 neuroprophets and used them for twin upgrades (so i guess 111) and about to go make some more since I've been offline for 5 hours and ought to have some good larva numbers.

That strategy guide advises not to ascend until you have about 300M mutagen as it will help with your larva production in the next round.

@djslack that much mutagen is gonna take awhile.

@justbuyit @djslack - They make Mucinex for that.

Did some reading. Thanks to Conway and Guy, it will never have to make up names for the numbers. Boo.

P.S. a vagintillion is a thousand novendecillion, for those keeping track at home.

@djslack something about saying "vagintillion meat" makes me feel dirty.

@carl669 Well that's really saying something coming from you. :P

@justbuyit wait. did i say dirty? i meant feisty.

@justbuyit just wait until the Hive Brain.

@carl669

@justbuyit I've used 1,111 neural clusters to make my hive neurons grow twins. Still holding off on ascending though I hear it is easier after every ascent. I have 73.6B mutagen waiting for me so far. I'll probably ride it out until this weekend so I can spend time with the game when I ascend.

@Moose

Welcome back! While you were away for 2 months, your swarm produced:

14.8744 septillion hive networks
2.34406 undecillion neural clusters
9.91145 quinquadecillion hive neurons
337.444 quattuorseptuagintillion meat
4.89563 octillion larvae
668.002 octoquadragintillion territory 

@Moose apparently my swarm is lost to time. Or I did it on my old phone. I thought it synced to Dropbox before but that option is gone in the game and I don’t see a file in my Dropbox.

@djslack Your swarm is probably still multiplying without you. Better hope they don’t hold a grudge.

@Moose I’ll be buying my first Overmind IV later tonight. With bonuses, each swarmwarp is now approx. 7 months into the future. I can ascend and be back at Overmind in about a week if I pay attention to the game and check in daily (which I do not). I earn 2 energy per second and currently earn 4.86511e676 meat per second.

@Moose i think i’m on the last overmind (VI). i’ve ascended 17 times. my swarmwarps are long enough to gestate a human baby.

@justbuyit good…GOD. That is Texas BBQ levels of meat.

@Pantheist This takes way longer than the paperclip game, if you let it.

@djslack It reminds me of clicker heroes without the graphics so far. I like it.

@mflassy weird… the app doesn’t store a save in the cloud!? The web app does.

@UncleVinny

The app is still in development, so I suppose it’s possible that they’ll add it by the time it’s more widely released.

@UncleVinny @mflassy

At some point they added cloud backup.

I installed the app on my Pixel, and uninstalled it shortly thereafter.

A little while later I reinstalled it, and after it logged into my Play Games profile, it offered to restore cloud backup.

Installed the game on Nexus 5, and it offered to restore cloud backup.

So yeah. It’s safe to say there’s now cloud backup.

As to why I didn’t just clear data instead of uninstalling and then reinstalling:

Wasn’t intending to play again.

@justbuyit I’m still playing. I started in October, and I’ve ascended about 15 times, which is probably pretty slow. But I enjoy my little bug empire…

Are you going to start again?

@thejackalope
Oh, and this data too if y’all still care
save file size 10,773 base64 chars
start date a year ago - Tue Oct 03 2017
last ascended 23 days ago - Sat Aug 18 2018

@thejackalope I hate you and your necroposting. So much. Now I’m trapped.

@thejackalope aw man, Overmind VI? I’ve never gotten that far. I’ve only ascended 4 times, but you inspired me to ascend again. I know you can catch back up quickly but I still hate basically starting from scratch (even if you do get a ton of larvae to start with)

@Moose My main goal now is seeing how much time my swarmwarps can get me. Currently sitting on 1 year, 7 months per warp, but I’m about to ascend for the 14th time, so that should go up quite a bit soon. Combining the warp and bat mutations helped me a ton with this once I figured all that out.