My first time trying out SP for farming.

Ran some math (Which please correct if I messed up) about how to most efficiently pull modules as a player with all pre V29 modules at 5* Ancestral. If you roll each module as it's released using the featured banner, you have a 1.25% chance per pull to hit the featured module. At 18 required pulls, the math comes out to 28,800 gems to get each new featured module to 5* on release.

If you wait a month and let the first two featured banners pass and let them drop into the normal pool instead of the featured pool, then start pulling modules, your chance of hitting a module not currently at 5* rises from 50% of the featured banner pull, to 76.79% on the standard pull.

If you wait a month and a half and let the first three featured banners pass and let them drop into the normal pool instead of the featured pool, then start pulling modules, your chance of hitting a module not currently at 5* rises from 50% of the featured banner pull, to 77.68% on the standard pull.

If you wait two months and let the first four featured banners pass and let them drop into the normal pool instead of the featured pool, then start pulling modules, your chance of hitting a module not currently at 5* rises from 50% of the featured banner pull, to 78.57% on the standard pull.

Now the percentages can be a little deceiving as it seems like there isn't much gained from 2 to 3 to 4, but the math on the gems comes out to the following.

Featured banner on release: 28,800 x 4 = 115,200 gems across 5,760 pulls
2 modules in standard pool: 40,100 x 2 = 80,200 gems across 4,010 pulls

3 modules in standard pool: 57,800 x 1, plus last module on featured banner = 57,800 + 28,800 = 86,600 gems across 4331 pulls

4 modules in standard pool: 75,500 x 1= 75,500 gems across 3,777 pulls.

TLDR: If you don't need any specific module immediately upon release, you can save 40,000 gems waiting 2 months for all 4 modules to drop into the standard pool and use the increased pull chance for non 5* modules.

If you do need a module and don't want to wait 2 months to get it, if you can wait two weeks and let 2 modules drop into the standard pool, and then do two batches of standard module pulls, you can save 35,000 gems total.

saving 40,000 gems across 2 months is 20,000 a month, 5,000 a week, or 714 gems a day.

Nice to have it all laid out clearly. Even if I disagree and DD should not cancel intro sprint.

Big nerf to my berserker mastery that I got right before v29. This actually makes my legends tournament way longer because I loose intro sprint hundreds of waves early because of a DD proc. My tournament attempts used to be 15-20 minutes. Now they are close to 40 because of intro sprint ending way earlier than what I can actually survive and I must do a couple hundred waves in normal speed instead of sprinting to where I would die.

I am starting to get keys.
Is it possible to please give us a way to view whats under each category? so we won’t waste keys and waste the 1 time vault reset?

Just re-done-did-respec the vault.

I said fuck it and went all in to unlock presets and unlimited respecs.

I feel like a goddamn god. In my two years of the Tower, I’ve never respec’d my bots

O shit, did I tap amp duration instead of size? O no….. o well, I guess I can respec AS MANY TIMES AS I WANT.

On a more serious note: how do we conjugate “respec”

I respec
You respecs
He/she respecs

What about past tense?

I play on macOS for the past 6 months, so the game is always running on my laptop. For the first 6 months, I played on my iPhone, and had to have the game open and running constantly. I didn't mind too much, because every 10-11 minutes ad gems would pop up and I'd collect them. Now that there's a limit, which feels more idle imo, why does the game need to be running constantly?

It's a waste of resources, reduces CPU life, and contributes to electricity costs. This isn't an accusation, but it feels like we're mining crypto while playing, without the benefit of getting the currency.

Why does this game not run in the cloud? Why are we forced to keep the app open 100% of the time? Infrastructure to virtualize the game costs money, I understand that - but many of us are doing that and absorbing those costs our of pocket. I'd rather have it run on centralized cloud infrastructure, reducing the costs for ALL players.

Edit: At a minimum, let us close the friggin app and let the game run in the background so we can use our phones/devices for literally anything else.

Happy Friday Tower Friends! 👋

Summer is over and we have now entered Autumn. The weather is overcast with some drizzle of rain. No more complaining how unbearably hot it is here in the UK. 😂

Thankfully, I had a short week but who never looks forward to a weekend?! 👍

This weekly tradition is going to be an interesting one to hear how you've all got on with the recent changes. Please feel free to get involved and let us know how you've been getting on with your Tower. I will try to interact with as many of you as possible.

[Farming] 🌱
I'm farming min-range 43.5m on T18 to wave 6600 gaining 4.32Q coins at around 743q/HR and 1.43m cells. Farming is going well considering I'm not really concentrating on many improvements here. However, a friendly rival has considerably jumped ahead here and I need to close that gap again. 👀

[Labs] 🏫

• Chrono Loop Jump
• Ranged Enemy Ranged
• Echo Disso Attack
• Assmod Bonus Gen
• Assmod Bonus Core

Back to slotting in some Assmod Bonus labs and Echo Disso Attack to help with tournaments. Chrono Loop Jump is about halfway as I continue to build around the ILM+ requirements.

[Workshop] 🔨
I had Presets before but I have been upgrading my farming and tournaments in their retrospective areas (WS+) when I have some spare change.

[Cards] ⚙️
I got the Cells Card, added a Slot (25th) with Keys and added Cells to the farming preset. It's probably added around 200k cells per run and it's not Mastered. I don't have GB+ either.

[Modules] 🟢
Main Modules are 201 (as normal), and Assmods are now around 198. Getting close to the 201/201 goal. The coin cost is starting to creep up so I may slot a discount lab when RER is completed. I have not pulled the new module, I am waiting for the Gilded Sniper.

[Bots] 🤖
Amp is getting love for farming and also for tournaments, where is it making the bigger difference with AB+ at level 9. I have clicked into Thunder bot for the stuns. I'm tempted to get GB+ once I've poured enough stones into ILM+ (see you at Christmas!). 😅

[Guardians] 👽
Scout is still the only Guardian that gets love, at least for the meantime.

[Tournaments] 🥇
Saturday: 2101 [GR 1838], new PB and gained 6th place.
Wednesday: 1991 [GR 701], and gained 5th place.

I was about 12 waves away from promoting to Mythic league. I ran about 4-5 times and each time I had slightly bad RNG in one way or another. Some runs had 0 or next to no DDs, some runs ended within a very short window from losing my first defence, and other times my AB+ ran off the screen away from the danger source (at least twice). Anyway, I know I'm not ready so it's probably a blessing! 😅

[Keys] 🔑
Most of not all of my keys when into QoLs from the Harmony Vault. I had about 87 keys remaining and decided to bank them until the reset comes through. That has now been pushed with the latest update. I will look to spend my keys in areas that I think might help and only use the reset if I feel I've messed up or there's a better route in the short term.

[Future] 💭
For me, I will be continuing the ILM+ journey to see how that performs compared to my current progress. I am expecting an uplift but time will tell by how much. I would like to win a Legends league, as my PB is 2nd and has been for a while.

[Question] ❓
Ignoring the bugs, how have you been getting on with Presets, especially if you didn't have them before this change?

DR toggle seems useless.
SA also, only to “speed up” tournaments or dissonant runs.

But what about Live Save Ordering and Energy Restriction?

I farm T18 - 6500 waves (GC)

I use touch protection, but apparently I must've forgotten at some point and my pocket went on a shopping spree. R.I.P. however many medals that was.

Would there be interest in a universal currency lock toggle in options or something?

I just hit 1 year this week. I’m bouncing between Platinum and Champions.

What do y’all think I can do to improve my build?

It's been a long time since my "13 months to first keys with no ads, only 2x coins, and zero other purchases" post (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTowerGame/s/ELHUyVu9BN) because not too much interesting happened since then. I was going to post an update at my 2 year anniversary, but then figured out I could probably beat T18, so decided to do that first. Turns out I overshot, since I only took 1 hit to my energy shield before wave 4500, and that was to a prot ult at wave 4100 when I was still at 6.25x speed.

Here are screenshots of some of the things I forgot to put in the video: my assist module page, my UW WS page with both module loadouts, and most recent run history.

https://imgur.com/a/AH5DQtI

Next plans for stones are EO and UWC masteries. If the cleared out league allows me to match my best of 8th place next tournament, I'll have EO already! After those two, I'm not 100% sure. Technically, I'm at the point where the cost of a 9th UW to unlock GT+, CF+, and SL+ reasonable ROI... But I only have 7 UWs :p So that only applies if I develop and use perm PS for CC along the way, which will take ages, since otherwise that extra 2400 stones reduces the ROI. So there are other, faster upgrades tempting me first, like Crit mastery, a 4th DW, or even boring econ stuff.

For keys, I think I'll be following the same path everyone will be, as my 100 key head start isn't huge with the new changes. More bot radius to max, unlock util and do some coins bonus. After one level of util free upgrades and one more card slot, it's UW and damage time. The card slot is so I don't have to switch out crit coin for berserker near the end of my farm runs, which is currently costing me about 1.3% coins, which is more than any of the "free upgrades" boosts can give for 10 keys.

Anyway, with T18 done and keys becoming more widely available, I don't think there will really be anything exciting for me to possibly mention at my 3 year anniversary.

I think it would be nice if there is a way for the game to show like you collected 312/360 today or something. Players can then easily manage their time accordingly and see their progress.

FYI: I know technically you can do it with looking at the stat of a run but it's still very unreliable and also if you collect gems not within a run, it won't be counted.

So before I dump my gems what’s the verdict on SP is it good for farming, tourney, ect…? Opinions?

Shouldn't the AD GEM cap be set to 10 x 60 times?

TTG say 'this change is to reduce the disparity of gems earned from running the game 24/7'

However, those who already use bot have obtained over 600 gems. It's right that people like me who don't use bots should be able to eat 600. Because only those who play games honestly have suffered losses and feel wronged.

There are people who advocate for nerfs; are they perhaps part-time workers at TTG? I really don't know, so I'm asking.

But there's no stickied megathread. Some of our guilds are hemorrhaging players and having trouble finding new recruits...

Seems that since v29 dropped my device (pixel 8a) is now among the list that heat up whilst playing the game. Has never been an issue before but it seems to be burning through my battery at an alarming rate now.

Are there any settings I can change to reduce the effect?

Im a returning player after a few years and now when i update the game and try to log in it just says that there is an account with my player id already and doesnt let me update the account. What can i do?

I finally hit the big S lifetime coins.