Anyone doing 3 core customs?

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#1

Just as a disclaimer: Experienced user and I’m very aware this is not in the official recommendations. Wanted to check with the forum for anecdotal experiences versus a support question. And I know there are old posts with this question but don’t see any recent ones from the newest zp versions.

But I’m curious to hear from folks who’ve made 3-core customs and are using it successfully. How are you finding them? Any tips (keeping the module length to e.g. <10)?

I’d like to make a custom to run through 2026 with the 3 secondary titles in the Emperor line (Executive, Art of War, Will to Power) and a handful of modules (<10).

Thanks!

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#2

Experienced user here also (so for any beginner reading this please stick with official rules).
I am doing 3 customs with 3 cores each (15 modules in total each). Listening times: 1 to 3 minutes. Rest: 1 to 3 days.
I am doing very good with them, the best time having running them especially since the new antirecon tech has been included in the new cores.

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#3

Thanks for sharing, this is helpful to know! Especially your runtime as I microloop myself too and haven’t figured out the times for customs quite yet (so 1m+ does the trick it looks like).

For newer users and most of us in general, just to ensure this thread does not set unrealistic expectations (and get shut down), I will also caveat this along with @SubliminalWarrior’s note - there is a risk of looooong result times with 2+ cores (depending on your own personal factors; I’ve found personally my load from other subs, sleep state, mental fatigue etc to play a part). So, there’s no free lunch and especially, given the cost of a custom.

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#4

If you runned all 3 cores before and the recon is minimal on all 3 then let’s go.

I made a mistake to put Kahn st4 into a custom without running the other stages before.

Could never listen to this custom without sever recon for weeks.

in my experience it takes a little longer to get them all working, it’s more like a couple of days 1 core is dominant then it switches to another core and this repeats itself until everything runs smoothly together.

But if your cores alinge for one goal or let’s say flows in the same direction then your golden.

Example :Emperor, Godlike Masculinity, Ascension

Or Lovebomb, Lovebomb for Humanity , Genesis the Art of Happiness and Joy

3 spiritual cores

This doesn’t mean it has to be that way but it works.

Unless your name is invictus, then you can put in 20 cores and jump around

:joy:

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#5

My beefiest custom is all 4 stages of EoG (both older and the most recent EoG since I upgraded the custom) along with R.I.C.H.

It definitely pings my brain when I run it. money ideas and all. Just most of them are out of my reach currently. I’m remedying that soon by making some “cutbacks”.

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#6

yes i listen to two customs one with 2 cores and one with 3 cores.

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#7

All my customs are 3 core. It’s always worked totally fine for me.

I usually start with 3 cores and 7 modules.

If I like it, I add more modules over time iterating on the custom until it’s perfect.

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#8

I also follow this guideline. I always run them in a stack first to test the synergy before I commit to a custom build.

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#9

Do a toe in water for 3 or 6 mins. See how it feels then take break the followimg day. Three core customs can work very well if they supplement each other like LOTS/Spartan Apex/Hero Origins for example.

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