EVIL GENIUS 2 OPTIMAL LAYOUT HOW TO
EVIL GENIUS 2 OPTIMAL LAYOUT FREE

EVIL GENIUS 2 OPTIMAL LAYOUT HOW TO

Granted I played the first one so I had a vague idea of how to structure things initially, but still. Like why would I? My first iteration does everything I need it to do. I just don't feel any incentive to rebuild my base or meaningfully interact with the base building elements after a few hours. I also built an extra inner sanctum and desk next to the area so I can quickly top off my stats so I can keep training. This way I can spam the 'Train Faster' ability on lots of units at once and really produce a ton of minions quickly.

I am using Max so I rearrange it so that my most in-demand minion type trainers are close together (depending on stage of the game, you will find you need certain types a lot). Executing your minions at key times (like in a crowd of minions just handled a bunch of body bags) can give a huge stat boost and lower your minions downtime, and make use of their ability. In EG1 I mostly just left my Genius around like he was a piece of loot, standing in one place and giving minions an AOE buff. You can play it safe and wait for them to leave which is safer, but it's downtime just waiting around.

Decide to trade attracting a super agent to complete an objective more quickly.

The editor is pretty good and it's not a big deal to come back to edit the room if you have to deal with a fight or something in the middle. I wasted a ton of time building while paused for really no reason.

Resist the urge to always pause when you are rebuilding/building, this way your research and world map operations keep progressing.

However, a few things that have made it more fun for me, that I really didn't do early on but started to do later: I am currently just doing tons of side stories and not progressing the main quest and I wish they were a lot faster. This is safe and maybe 'optimal' but once I figured this stuff out it made it more boring. And once you understand the world map mechanics and tricks (example: you can cancel missions right before they end to avoid activating super agents and still get most of the benefits), you can avoid getting super agents and keep low heat. Once you have a good setup of resolve-draining traps and a good cover operation, a lot of agents will be handled without you doing anything. Otherwise you are honestly just waiting for like 10 different types of progress bars and maybe controlling your henchmen now and then. If you play the game 'safe', it quickly just becomes a lot of waiting around because you won't generate much heat and your base will self-manage.

EVIL GENIUS 2 OPTIMAL LAYOUT FREE

I think the game gives you so much money so that you can feel free to try new layouts and don't feel penalized for making changes. You really have to enjoy base building (and re-building), since this is the core of the actual gameplay.

Evil genius 2 optimal layout