# So I've found the SECOND most addicting game to exist on the internet. No, really. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 14, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917 "2016-09-14T07:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/642 "2017-08-07T13:08:26Z")
So, on my latest run, I managed to push through to 171 to unlock the damage achievement and the Bionic Wonderland bonus. In so doing, I’ve unlocked the Devastation challenge. Any tips on how to go at it? Am I capable of doing it right away if I can get to this point, or do I need to grind a few more runs until I can reach higher zones? Any tips on how to deal with it aside from “have lots of health”? How important is the Overkill perk anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/643 "2017-08-07T13:21:52Z")
The overkill perk means that you zoom through the early zones at high speed. It will help you pick up some speed bonuses that would otherwise be unobtainable. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/644 "2017-08-07T13:37:09Z")
Oh, and on maps you can gather resources twice as quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/645 "2017-08-07T16:02:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Any tips on how to go at it? Am I capable of doing it right away if I can get to this point, or do I need to grind a few more runs until I can reach higher zones? With your new bonus, you should be fine. It’ll take a little longer, since the Overkill may slow you down a bit - but there’s no additional obstacle. And if you can’t beat Imploding Star at 170, just grind a few more levels and try then. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/646 "2017-08-16T19:18:45Z")
I’ve just reached zone 230, and the dimensional generator has appeared in the buildings tab. There’s a bonus available for “use the dimensional generator.” What do I do to earn it? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/647 "2017-08-17T01:10:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Just the other day I was able to finish the last speed challenge for Prison (1 hour 30 minutes) with _twenty seconds_ to spare. I ended up pumping metal into my gear like crazy in the home stretch until my arbalest was something like level 45. 🙂 Wait Arbalest? What’s an arbalest, and why don’t have one? Is it because I’m a girl?!? :o ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/648 "2017-08-17T01:16:19Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Wait Arbalest? What’s an arbalest, and why don’t have one? > > Is it because I’m a girl?!? > > :o You get 2 new equipments when you complete the [Slow](http://trimps.wikia.com/wiki/Slow) challenge, unlocked at zone 130. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/649 "2017-08-17T03:29:18Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I’ve just reached zone 230, and the dimensional generator has appeared in the buildings tab. There’s a bonus available for “use the dimensional generator.” What do I do to earn it? Get at least 0.5 fuel (3 cells is enough) and wait until the timer on the generator completes a loop. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/650 "2017-08-17T03:50:05Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I can’t believe I missed this by one minute: [60 \*&$% seconds !?! - Album on Imgur](http://imgur.com/a/wPxkB) > > [Shatner voice] Trimmmmmmmps!!! [end Shatner voice] I’m not sure if you missed it by one second, or by 30 seconds, but I got an achievement despite being a few seconds over the time limit. So apparently a few seconds over at least still counts as “X minutes or less”, but it’s hard to know whether it goes to the next minute after the full minute is up (like with Magmamancers/Meditation) or after 30 seconds (like with the time elapsed in the zone). Since I have all of the speed achievements now, I can’t exactly test and try it out. I suggest to others to wait until you get both Blacksmithery 2 and Ultraspeed (or whatever it’s called) 2 before trying to do the Spire in an hour, even though I’ve proven the former isn’t absolutely necessary if you’ve gotten to Zone 300 before, because it was damn close and I was scrambling the last few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/651 "2017-08-17T04:01:39Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > 110 for the first gigastation seems too far the other way in my opinion, you’re leaving a lot of Tauntimp population growth to waste by waiting so long to upgrade. I usually won’t go past 50 or so before upgrading the first time. Always more is a good plan, though. I don’t think the Tauntimp bonus is really relevant compared to getting more efficiently costed Warpstations. You want to get guys sooner than later mainly if you need to read more Coordinations, which will be the case for a while, as well as get more guys to work so you can read more prestiges, which will pretty much always be the case near the end of a run. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/652 "2017-08-17T04:05:58Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Didn’t think of that. I’ll try it. > > I’ve got 261 million helium and 280% challenge2 bonus. My highest zone is 223. I definitely didn’t complete the Spire until I was in Lava. I had at least 300m He, if not more. Looting 2 is not that big of a deal to waste a bunch of time on. It will eventually be a big deal, but when you first get it you won’t have enough spare Helium to do much with it. The only other reward is to say you did it, and I guess read some more of the horrendously lame story that kinda ends there. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/653 "2017-08-17T07:14:22Z")
Meanwhile I’m working on a world record Youtube video instead of playing games with no graphics haha. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/654 "2017-08-17T07:49:41Z")
> [@TheSundial](#): > > Meanwhile I’m working on a world record Youtube video instead of playing games with no graphics haha. …and? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/655 "2017-08-17T07:52:34Z")
> [@TheSundial](#): > > Meanwhile I’m working on a world record Youtube video instead of playing games with no graphics haha. What ?!? are you in the new [576 hours of “Shame”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyzS46enc4) ? 😉😛😉 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/656 "2017-08-20T02:27:29Z")
> [@Rhodes](#): > > You get 2 new equipments when you complete the [Slow](http://trimps.wikia.com/wiki/Slow) challenge, unlocked at zone 130. Thank you! I have established that running Slow as a challenge2 will not, in fact, kill two birds with one stone. :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/657 "2017-09-13T23:26:53Z")
My new favorite Daily Challenge: > [@](#): > > You have the 2017-09-10 Daily challenge active. > > - Trimps have 180% more attack on even numbered zones > - Enemies gain a stack of Bloodthirst whenever Trimps die. Every 5 stacks, enemies will heal to full and gain an additive 50% attack. Stacks cap at 20 and reset after killing an enemy. > - Enemies have a 22% chance to dodge your attacks on odd zones. > - Enemy health in maps increased by 90%. > - Equipment is 45.0% cheaper. > - Enemies have a 80% chance to reflect an attack, dealing 80% of damage taken back to your Trimps. > > Challenge has no end point, and grants an additional 334% of all helium earned before finishing. The cheap equipment and extra trimp attack more than make up for the negatives. Bloodlust is no big deal - just run a map and the world enemy’s bloodlust returns to 0. The Reflected attack kept things slow for the first hour, but eventually my health is orders of magnitude higher than my attack, so it has no effect on late gameplay. I’m 30 hours in, and about to reach a new Highest Zone Ever with the challenge still running. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/658 "2017-09-23T17:25:18Z")
Can anyone explain the [Blacksmithery II Mastery](http://trimps.wikia.com/wiki/Mastery) to me? (No, I’m not there yet, just reading ahead.) Does it mean you only have to run the map once to get all the available upgrades? ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/659 "2017-09-23T17:34:33Z")
The blacksmithery masteries allow you to get prestiges without running maps; they just show up among your available upgrades when you reach a new world zone, allowing you to speed through the zones without pausing for map running. The effect is limited based on the highest world zone you have ever reached: if you’ve ever reached zone 300, then Blacksmithery I gives you prestiges automatically up to zone 150, and Blacksmitery II up to 225. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/660 "2017-09-26T08:03:22Z")
The update that dropped today includes a new achievement for completing Dimension of Anger within _1 minute_ from the start of the run. I don’t wanna _know_ how many levels of Overkill you’d need to make that happen. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917/661 "2017-09-26T08:35:52Z")
I think you’d need Hyperspeed I & II on the Mastery tab. Maybe Portal Generator, too. Overkill doubles your speed on lower zones. Increasing it won’t make you any faster, but it will make the double speed last to higher zones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-second-most-addicting-game-to-exist-on-the-internet-no-really/765917.md?page=34)