Heavenly Hints for Afterlife

Some Frequently Asked
Questions Get Answered

Question: I can't make any money, it seems I'm always in the red. Can someone help me out here?

The only way to make a profit is to build slowly. You pay a lot of money for roads and demons and angels. Just lay down 3x3 tiles for each color, one training center, one karma station, one gate, and one topia. Then set your tempo to mortal plodding so you can respond quickly when you start to lose SOULs. SOULs will only leave when all of the buildings in a certain colored fate is full, or if your gates or Karma stations are full. You can look at the graphs to find out if they are close to being full, but don't build more until you start to lose SOULs. Smaller fate zones will force the buildings in those zones to evolve into better structures. You get more money per SOUL if you have better structures on your zones. The only way that the zones will evolve is if they are under at least moderately good (or bad if you are running Hell) vibes and you keep the structures on those zones balanced. If you ask Aria and Jasper, they will give you suggestions about what to do. If you are playing in easy mode and everything is properly balanced, you may start making money around year 1000.

Special Note: Don't worry about losing SOULs too much while the game is young. It may take 1500 years to become profitable, so don't panic.

Question: Aria and Jasper keep telling me I need to balance. How do I do that?

There are two ways to balance. One is to do it manually. Hit pause, and then click on the Heaven or Hell symbols at the bottom of your remote control so you just see all the colors where your structures are laid out. Then use the magnifying lens on each structure to get the Microview window. Click on the icon of the scale in the window. You will see a bar at the top. You need to move the slider so the bar is completely white, then your structure is balanced. Doing this is free of charge. An easier, but more expensive way of balancing is to use the Macro Manager. That's the green icon with the two "m"s on it. When you bring it up, you can click on the scale that's balanced, and then click on whatever color you want, or all of the colors, and then click on the penny symbol at the bottom to balance.

Special Note: Unless you're playing in Difficult Mode, you probably don't have to worry about balancing your tiles for the first few hundred years.

Question: Aria keeps mentioning that Heaven is not diverse. What does she mean?

The SOULs in Heaven like to mingle and visit SOULs in other reward structures. You need to make sure that one fate structure is not surrounded by the same color on any side. Usually if you put four different colored 3x3 squares together and then build a road all around them the SOULs will be happy.

Question: Help! I'm losing souls!!! What do I do?

Talk to Jasper and Aria. They will tell you why you are losing souls. When you first start a new game, set the tempo to Mortal Plodding so you have time to keep track of what the souls are doing. A lot of times you will get colored spikes which will tell you what color souls are leaving your Afterlife. They will also leave if your gates or karma stations are too full.

Super Duper Special Hints

The Money Cheat

Type in $@! at any point in the game to automatically receive an extra 10 million Pennies. You can do this up to five times in one game with no repercussions. Do it more than five times and you're in for a, shall we way, deathly surprise. No kidding.

A Secret Fun Thing

At any point in the game, type SAMNMAX (all caps) three times in a row and see what happens. It's funny. Really. But save your game before you do it. Really.