At the end of every level one is attacked by what are apparently endless waves of enemies. But that got me wondering, are they actually endless waves?
Do the waves of enemies at the end of a level ever stop coming?
Is there any kind of bonus or benefit to fighting after reaching the elevator?
(Edit: got an achievement for surviving a long time)
Best Answer
Um...
My current team for this is: Gork (Solyent Green at Level 3), Skroig (SG at Level 3 and SG2 at Level 11), Nanor (SG at Level 7), and Opbot (Recycling at Level 5 and Recycling 2 at Level 12). In the farming room (ideally 5-7 small modules with 2-4 Autodoc, 1 Defense, 1 Tear Gas, 1 Attack) I give Nanor the crystal in floors that need repair, otherwise I have Opbot hold the crystal so every single kill nets food and industry.
Doing this I can achieve hundreds of industry and food each floor. Though some floors just don't work...you absolutely need a single hallway leading from your farming room to your exit, with no monsters spawning on that "side" of your farming room.
Just make sure to have a good exit strategy to get everyone out of the room when you need to, like saving Skroig's Red Plume skill to distract all the enemies at once. :)
Edit: Took a screenshot for y'all. You can see I'm on Floor 9 (on an Easy Armory Pod run) with way more industry than I'll ever be able to use (I still had over 1.5k at the completion of this run despite filling pretty much every room I could with stuff), and my heroes are already way stronger than they should be ehehe. :)
Also I used an additional defense minor module instead of an attack minor module because I was able to fill a number of other rooms with Tactical Huds.