This is coming from someone who played to the end of Phase 2, then came back when Phase 3 was out. I had everything unlocked up to that point.
Coming back, I'm mostly struck by how there really isn't anything active to do in Phase 3. Maybe I'm missing something. But there's the whole empty Fractured Void, where it costs 1 Million to unlock one of the hexes. That takes maybe an hour to accumulate. Then the reward is just 5% bonus? After unlocking a couple of those immediate 1 Million hexes, I thought maybe the 2 Million hexes would really start to be useful, but those are also only 5% bonus? So maybe once per hour at this point I can do something in the game. I don't remember the earlier phases being so idle. It's quite dull, knowing there are maybe hours/days to come of just unlocking these hexes for meager 5% bonuses? I don't get it.
Bug report: Offline gains are pretty messed up. If Auto-Converge is turned on, I will never get offline gains. I'll close and reopen the game later, and it will be as if the game had been paused the whole time, and no state change occurs. If I turn off Auto-Converge, the game applies offline gains as expected. This means I can't set the game to Auto-Converge at 2 Million, then come back tomorrow, because the game won't do offline gains if Auto-Converge is on. I think maybe it kind of works offline if you set the Auto-Converge amount to something very low, but it definitely doesn't work at all at higher values.
Anyway, I thought the first two phases were kind of interesting, but Phase 3 just slammed on the brakes and puts me off completely. I keep feeling like there must be some skill I'm not seeing that would make the start of Phase 3 not be a total slog.