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Here’s what I do. There are probably better ways to do it, but I’m too lazy to figure them out :p
1. If you can, always run 8 hour and 12 hour missions. 24 hour missions take too long, and although I haven’t kept track, I get the feeling that the output of one 24 hour mission is worse than that of two 12 hour missions or three 8 hour missions. Also, the 24 hour Hard missions don’t always pay out in Super Rarium (SR).
2. Avoid Easy and Medium missions that pay out a lot of Birdium (BI) and Pig Iron (PI). These are almost always the 4 hour missions, some of the 8 hour missions, and a few of the 12 hour missions. You can’t avoid them entirely, but you can minimize the impact. Also, the longer missions will sometimes pay out in Anger Chips (AC) and Badness Processors (BP)!
3. Hard missions: avoid the 4 hour missions, as they never give you Super Rarium. Avoid the 24 hour missions, for the reason I outlined in (1) above. Most of your Hard missions should be 8 hours, with a few 12 hours from time to time (these appear rarely, but they do).
So to summarize (1), (2), and (3), you only want to do missions that will give you SR, AC, BP, Auto Cogs (AG), and DeceptiGears (DG).
These are the “spins” I do in the Lab:
4. If you have 1, 2, or 3 SR spin: AC+BP+SR and try to get either 14 gems or 3 SR.
If you started with 1xSR and end with 3xSR: Spin AC+BP+SR again to try to get to 5SR
If you started with 2xSR and end with 4xSR: goto (5)
If you started with 3xSR and end with 5xSR: goto (5)
If you started with 1xSR and end with 0xSR: goto (6)
If you started with 2xSR and end with 1xSR: repeat (4)
If you started with 3xSR and end with 2xSR: repeat (4)
If you started with 4xSR and end with 3xSR: repeat (4)
5. Spin either 1xDG + 2xSR or 1xAG + 2xSR and try to get 14xGems. Go back to (4) and repeat. If you’re unable to go back to (4) because you don’t have enough materials remaining, then go to (6). Usually you’ll be short SR and (6) will help you get more. Spinning 3xAC or 3xBP is an inefficient way to generate SR as the best you can get is 1xSR out of those. If you’re totally out of either AC or BP then you’re out of luck and will have to wait until you get more (either by completing a mission, or a node run). Or go to (7) in very limited cases.
6. Spin 1xDG + 2xBP and try to get either 10 gems or 3xSR. If you get 3xSR then go back to (4).
7. If you’re totally out of either AC or BP, then you can try to spin 3xAG or 3xDG, but only do this if you have a large surplus of AG and/or DG remaining.
As you become more experienced, you can also try other recipes, such as:
– 1xAG + 2xAC to regenerate AC quickly (the catch is that there is no possibility of earning SR – this recipe is NOT the equivalent of 1xDG + 2xBP which we discussed in (6).
– 3xSR which gives you a 40% chance of winning 20xGems on the fist spin and a 50% chance of winning 20xGems on the second spin.
Also, there’s always the option of respinning by using gems, but don’t do this unless you know what you’re doing, and only respin once (5 gems); never respin a second time as the total gems spent (5 + 10) will exceed the total gems you can earn (14). The exception is when you’re brave enough to spin 3xSR, as the potential winning is 20xGems.
Hope this helps. Hope this makes sense!