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Author:  Ikabite [ 30 Oct 2009, 14:06 ]
Post subject:  Hints and tips

Hi! Im new to the game... the English version. I have some problems with getting color to stay alive. In the 1st time I tried I picked up all the color in Nameless Sister Chambers, used minimum possible ammount to grow a garden. In the 3rd cycle I finnaly was able to reach the other 2 sister main chambers, i ran out of color. I reloaded the game and tried to stay at Nameless Sister for a while and get more color, but the plants and the fireflies were not respawning anymore and my garden didn't provided me with color i needed. I died and started the game from the beginning. This time I used maximum color amount in my gardens. This time I filled the 1st heart of the sisters ( don't remember the name.. the one sleeping in the cave on the island... with the color dropping from the celling ). The 3 brothers apeared i was given a 1st task to mine out the color, but I was already running out of color, i ran to my gardens in the Nameless chambers, but the other brother took most of the color there, and all the predators respawned what was really anoying too. I reloaded and tried to explore the sleeping sisters ( don't remember the name >_< ) but the damn predators kept killing me by sucking me near them. I tried to kill them... with no sucess. I think im not the only one with problems like these, so could the veteran players add some hints and tips here?

Sorry for my bad english, Tom.

Author:  The LxR [ 30 Oct 2009, 14:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: Hints and tips

Good day, Tom!

You've reached one of the hardest spots in the game, but if you make it for just one more cycle, and get the mining quest from the Brothers, you'll be able to get a lot of Color from the mines.

Try going on "life support mode": remove Color from all Hearts, but one, and wait on the map. This way, you will spend Color slower, as each Heart converts Color simultaneously — i.e. you'll have 3x lifetime, if you had one Heart filled instead of three.

Author:  Ikabite [ 30 Oct 2009, 15:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: Hints and tips

Tnx for advice! Oh yea and im just wondering, what actualy heppens if I fill the 3rd hart of a sister? =D I want to make all the chambers look... more alive is there a way to do it?

Author:  ZIGS [ 30 Oct 2009, 16:17 ]
Post subject:  Re: Hints and tips

While we're at it, what happens if you kill a sister? (say Ava for example)?

Author:  Hicks [ 30 Oct 2009, 22:11 ]
Post subject:  Re: Hints and tips

I had the same problem with running out of colour far too early on and needing to restart. The only thing I found is that if you play REALLY fast and efficiently then you get ahead of yourself before fresh colour is spawned. Once I started to get slightly lazy and careless then the timing was fitting better and I wasn't running out of colour so much. Seemed more appropriate in a way, fumbling round in the void meant I lived longer rather than doing everything as fast and efficiently as possible.

Author:  Halfgild Wynac [ 30 Oct 2009, 22:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Hints and tips

Perhaps it may easily escape attetion, but all your hearts process hearts at the same time, hence the increased speed of lympha growing into nerva when you fill many hearts at once. It is not about effectiveness, but rather about planning how much colour you need to spend (in fact, sometimes you bubble is full, and you DON'T want to process this colour anymore), and when you might need to do it. If large amounts of lympha are necessary, there is nothing bad with filling all your hearts even partially. Just make sure to cease this as soon as you start running out of colour. In this case fill only one heart and wait for the next income ;).

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