Hello all I'm wondering how to achieve extremely high scores like some of you guys do (I saw posts from vesperbot and others mentioning very high level gems, millions of points from super high HP monsters, maxing out mana pool etc). I'm not a noob at gemcraft - I got the gem of eternity, I anger monsters etc, so these tricks I do know, but even so I cannot really figure out how to take it to the next level - I see posters here mentioning hours long games, but I can only manage to play a game for under an hour or so.. any tips on how to succeed at getting those insane scores?
well, the main tip is - do what you are already doing, but twice more in any component. Say you build a mana farm - build it twice bigger. You anger monsters - anger them twice more (well, at least two to three time more each wave), and with bigger gems as well. You build towers of grade 8-9 - build these, and when you'll have the mana, build them 10-11, or higher. And last, but not the least - use mana pool spell to the topmost when you have made yourself a steady mana income, and 200+ monsters run your playfield.
thanks guys, this is useful advice I will give it a try once more, haven't really been using mana farms much so far so I'll do that. I never won more than 15M exp on a game so I have a long way to go it seems ...
Lankhr, congratulation on the new PC I usually try to get O/S separately from hardware, which comes with drivers for all O/S, so I can choose what to install onto my new PC. So far both my home PCs run Windows 2000 Professional so when I'll get me a new PC, I will install XP Pro on it, I have a licensed copy of it. Or I might go with some sort of a Linux instead, or both at once.
w000rz, well, it's a good time to start mana farming
Well, I took your good avice and I scored 35M on a single game, 3 levels at once, w00t ok that's still pathetic next to you guys but it's already three times my old high score!
Say on levels like level 45 - where the level design makes high scores easy, but there are no red or orange gems. Just what you start with and a tower to turn the colors of the gems in your inventory. Should you make red-orange gems immediately and what's more efficient when, changing gems via gem bomb first and saving the tower for later or vice versa. Any input would help.
How can you get 5,000,000 EXP in one level, that is insane. I cannot get more then 6,000 in more level. I get how you can increase the scoring by summoning, but When I do my attempts are useless and do not help me achieve much at all.
Diablohell, you probably lack mana for building up defences against that big mob you need to get such scores. Try building mana traps to the excess until you will repeatedly get more mana than you can spend, including mana pool skill. After that, anger is the way to go, about to the extreme. You will earn at least 100k exp the very first time you will get a steady mana trap and a big bunch of mobs running the line, perhaps even a 1M at once.
Concerning flash running too fast on vista, now that's gotta be the first thing I hear someone complaining about vista being fast at anything hehe
Something else I am wondering about, I see you guys are bing fans of certain gem colours. Me, I always work with the gems I have on the map, plus one or two mastery types I like like blue (and sometimes green for swarms). Should I always use the same combo on all maps, like R/O, even if the level has none and it means I need to transmute constantly? if that is the case then that might also explain why I'm having trouble reaching your scores...
as for games running for several hours if not days, now that really baffles me! you guys really took this to the next level
@Lankhr, I'm on the last level. What bug are you talking about? I wanted to end my last over angered wave then wait to check the level of the last monsters to plan for a better game. This one, i've not farm enough mana and i've under angered waves too much at the beginning.
