LOE: Rebirth, Life Tree & Other Thoughts

Back to Life on the Earth (LOE) ... I figured out what the Rebirth button does.  It looks like there is no way to level up the robot until you do at least one Rebirth so,  BOOM.  Blew up the planet and had to start over.  It keeps a few things, like your creature cards and some amount of growth.  But it wipes all epochs, all creatures, and you start fresh.  It's fun watching the world explode, though.

It's not such a huge setback, though.  I was back up to the Silurian ages in only about 15 minutes, with 127 F and making 7 E/second.  

I also went ahead at bought the $11.95 package, mostly because it offered no ads and a "golden tour".  Comically, I pictured the golden tour being a walkthrough of the crazy, undocumented interface of the game, but no.  The golden tour is on the Rewards page, "Tour" tab, where like so many games, there is a bonus track for non-subscribers and a bonus track for subscribers with tons of extra goodies.  In this case, you can walk through all the bonuses by spending diamonds: first it's 50 diamonds per row but you get back up to 300 diamonds depending on the row; further down it's 150 diamonds to unlock each row and some rows have 11X bonus chests and I ended up with over 5000 diamonds by the end of it.  Fun to figure out.  I don't think it would be a net gain of diamonds without that golden tour pass.


Looks like I have to unlock oviparity for 1.01 G before I can unlock the next epoch.  I'm at 402 F with 226 E/s coming in.  Ooh, lucky wheel -> super lucky -> skip one hour for 267 F of DNA and 306 E of the purple stuff.

(10:23) Came back after doing some other things.  Got my 1.01 G for oviparity, and unlocked the Carboniferous era.

The game is hypnotic, and I am starting to learn the nerdy facts again.  Some are easy, like whether paramecium is the most primitive thing out of a list of three, but trying to remember which 50 million years was the Cambrian era, or where some tongue-twister creature lived ... those are harder.

LOE appears to have a much smaller player base than other games on my tablet, where the rankings can number in the millions, and it is just not documented anywhere -- the only wiki I could find was very limited.  It is very tempting to try to find every feature and unlock every species, and poke at it for an hour or two.

I could technically use my own ScottVee gaming website to sort these blog posts by game and expand into large articles or tutorials, but that just adds more time to the time already spent.  It's not like anyone reads either one of these things anyway...

 

Golden tour ...

 

And this is what it's like opening the large chest X11

Over on the Life Tree page, some tinkering showed how most of it works.  The tiny jagged crystals are meant to be clicked on to score as a kid of currency for getting more crystals.  The large space is for a large crystal and the three smaller spaces are for small crystals, and all crystals give one boost or another, from DNA production boosts to bio-cabin cost discounts (whatever THAT is).  Click the bottom left icon to see where you can buy crystal chests.  This is where I could use the crystal tickets I won from the weekly event.  I got an advanced chest, and here's what was inside ... a variety of funky crystals, of course!

 

Back on the Life Tree page, click the icon at lower right to get to the page where you can modify existing crystals.  Click crystals to see what their buffs are, and pick the one you want to enhance.  Click the Strengthen button to put it in the middle of the diagram, then place three more crystals using the "choose material" button, to get a layout like this:

 

You will see a % chance of success.  Hit the Strengthen button here to potentially improve the central crystal.  It is a fairly intensive way to gain small boosts, but like everything else in this game, it is probably deeper and more powerful than it seems at first look.

More tips as I demystify the rest of the interface for myself.  Figuring out the patterns and logic of a game like this is a great deal of fun for me, and then the optimizations of how to get the most out of the various in-game currencies and options.  One grand puzzle, slowly unfolding.