By now this is only a mainly theoretical article that tries to estimate the possibility of one of the last challenges of official devast.io game!
Maybe the practical side will add here in the future, but there´s no guarantee this will ever happen or even be possible at all.
The challenge in detail and why:
The aim here is to reach in official devast.io the highest tier in weapon/armour power (laser sniper, laser submachine, lots of ammo, tesla armor) addtionally or alternatively to sniper stage (sniper, AK47 & swat suit), in a reasonable amount of time (6 hours max.) by using a most unrisky strategy that can be learned and played by noobs and less skilled players. But lets assume that some kind of experience/routine in mastering the sniper stage is given.
Since this is one of the last challenges the official devast.io game has to offer at the moment (V0.30.1719), there´s some motivation given for one or the other true fan of this game.
The many problems that have to be solved:
1. Amount of players:
Is it possible for a single player (with some sniper stage experience), or how many players would you need to reach the aim in time? I would estimate that it will certainly be possible for a team, but 6 hours might be short if you try to master this alone: You will need about 3 hours for sniper stage, do the preparations for a resetting, completely rebuild the base and begin to craft all the wanted stuff. But in the end I think it will be possible for an experienced single player too.
2. The way to success:
Additionally to sniper stage and/or alternatively possible? What´s a possible way, what´s the best way? For a team, I´d estimate that going directly for laser could be an option. For a single player I think there´s no way like this, you will end up in true multiple resetting techniques by using no base, or at maximum temporary bases. So here would be the split for solo players: Direct march for laser via pure resetting, or additionally to sniper with stable base, resetting once, rebuilding base and at least going for laser.
3. The XP problem:
You´ll have to additionally unlock at least 8 items for the laser stuff or things you need to be able to collect mandatory items (see chart below). If you followed the sniper stage strategy for noobs, you will have already reached an XP level beyond 30. But from XP 30 to XP 40 (for having the needed laser XP points ready) it will take you a very long time (some hours).
This is less a problem to a player team of 2-3 players who can split/share the unlocking, but for a single player the only way to solve this is making use of the "resetting technique". All the equpiment-achievements (like sniper, AK47, ammo, swat suit, hammer, radiation suit and some RadAways & Bandages) have to be stored in a secret place inside the irradiated city. After dying you respawn, get back your stuff from the secret place, get rid of radiation (by using the radiation suit & RadAways) and heal yourself (with the bandages). Maybe also some base elements (2 metal full doors, 8 metal low doors, 2 pitfires, 3 lapabots, 2 fridges) should be made and saved before resetting. Now many things don´t need to be unlocked any more, and all the laser stuff can be unlocked smoothly. But there´s lots of time-consuming preparation needed here, and the handover process includes some risk that should not be underestimated. It´s mandatory to study the irradiated city in advance, and some handover-practice with dummy-stuff might be helpful.
Hint: To get a safer handover transaction during the resetting process, one option could be the usage of 1 or 2 HAL bots. First you have to craft them and place them where you will store your precious stuff later in a selected building of the irradiated city. Since the bots need some time to get operational, you have to leave the city and come back later. If fandom-wiki is correct, then after respawning the bots will still be there but unfortunately will attack you too. So you need a second, prepared cache in the city that provides only a rad-suit and some ammo (you respawn with a gun) to make it possible for you to take your own but disloyal bot(s) down. After killing your bots, you certainly should immediately place new, prepared bots from your cache in the city building, if you need to come back later. That´s a lot of needed preparation, but safety always has it´s cost!
Practice shows, that when you died with an XP level of 30 or more, ghouls are attacking you after respawning very quickly (no 16 minutes grace period). You simply don´t have enough time to:
- unlock the basic things after respawning (vision, inventory slots)
- take care for food (also food for the whole upcoming night!) & fire
- get all your precious and mandatory stuff back from the city - a problem for itself due to limited inventory slots: maybe it will take you 2 visits until you have all your stuff saved
- rebuild the base (strong enough), before you run into deep problems caused by attacking ghouls
Certainly you´ll have to chose the best point in time for respawning (beginning of daylight), but you won´t be reprieved more than one day (8 minutes). So at the moment I guess the best way will be to get the stuff back from the city first, survive inside a suitable house for the night, and rebuild the base later at daylight.
4. The thick wire problem:
For crafting all the laser stuff the big wires, only appearing in the irradiated city, are mandatory. So knowing the city well and having some practice in obtaining the big wires will be a very good idea, before you go grinding and investing only to fail due to avoidable trivialities in the end.