Fixed.

I was thinking Polychoron Vault was build to all legion except Dysonian

Crap. We are all done with CTL discoveries (15 bps total). Last two discoveries sure are hell however.. Just a warning..

Wonder what the new one is, if you ever discover it lol i wanna know what it does.

Yeah, new item(s) just came in today. Not just us to discover those new ones. Other legions can discover those first in random as well. It's just matter of luck. Yes, many Dysonians are maxed out with research trees and have nothing to waste on so they focus on theory lab to keep busy so the "impossible" difficulty isn't THAT difficult if many of us combined are doing R&D at the same time. It took us 2 weeks just to discover 14th and 15th BPs.. I personally invested over 10M RPs in last two blueprints and failed all. Several other Dysonians invested a lot too in millions of RPs and it still took us 2 solid weeks. It's "hell". I figure that it might take us ~1 week to discover 16th if luck stays the same.. Wait and see how it goes..

We are 489 Tech parts from our CT Lab, so we would have a fresh slate and might discover it for our first creation for all we know haha.

Planet Flux - Tracer
An advanced Flux Probe that returns the names and
ranks of ships who have scanned the target planet.
Discovered by: Oscrix(20)flux probes (20)quantum flares (20)planet vortex deflectors
Create 25 energy

Thats not the new one, and its already on here like what 20 times now lol

We just hit the 14th item this morning and the odds are now "Nearly Impossible." I figured the research that would be wasted for that one item isn't worth it so we will just wait until more come out or Dan corrects the odds to something more equitable.

Phasic Chain Ionizer
50 ion storm charge
50 quantum flare
50 processing core chassis
100 energy
Transforms a gas planet into a Plasma world,
enhancing its size by 1, research by 2, and defense by 300.

nice! cost of more artifacts rising!

So whats the new stuff?

its the 16th pattern but we haven't made a breakthrough. As soon as someone gets it I hope that legion posts it here

So do the odds get easier when there are more undiscovered then get really hard/impossible almost on the last one not yet found ?

ORLY? It didn't even stop us for the breakthough of 14th and 15th. It's not even hard. It took us just 2 weeks to complete 14th and 15th on impossible difficulty.. I don't think that Dan would correct that odd cuz it seems is reasonable and keeps us busy wasting our RPs rather than converting it for credits and complain that we don't have anything to waste RP on. I'm so glad about theory lab that we finally have good use of RP to waste on that could last us for long time to play with.. I like "as is" for difficulty and it actually adds to leaderboard so nothing is really wasted. RP to credit is actually wasteful because it is not counted toward leaderboard..

It's at fixed interval for difficulty changes as it seems. 14th+ seems is on impossible difficulty. 1 week per discovery for us, Dysonians.. We haven't completed a full week of attempting 16th yet. I think we would have discovery of 16th on 3-5 days from now.. give or take..

I think the difficulty description should be fixed.

Very difficult, extremely difficult, ultra difficult, insane difficult... they all sound the same. What I think would be a better listing of difficulty labels:

Very Easy (#1 - 2)
Easy (#3 - 4)
Medium (#5 - 7)
Hard (#8 - 11)
Very Hard (#12 - 15)
Insane (#16 - 18)
Machoistic (#19+)

Or something similiar to these.

I thought you mentioned before that when your Base level increase the difficulty decreases a step, is that so?

i think we really need to have dan explain the mechanics of the collective lab discovery. otherwise everything is based on observation and speculation.

Who cares if the RP gets you on the leader board? More vanity of the foolishly egotistical.

If a research tree popped up and it cost 30,000,000 research points to complete the "Spy Probe - Governance" would you do it?

An arguably useless artifact taking 5-10 players spending MILLIONS of research points each to get is a waste.

What happened to the KAOS that i know that was asking for something better to do for the research points. Dan just gave us something to be busy about. it does not have to be easy otherwise everyone will have it.