# So I've found the most addicting game that exists on the internet. No, seriously **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 21, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356 "2013-09-21T00:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/21 "2013-09-21T16:02:42Z")
That feeling you feel the first time you step away for awhile, letting it run, to come back and find a large amount waiting for you. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/22 "2013-09-21T16:09:40Z")
Is it me, or are the upgrades not very good value? I mean for a 10,000 cookie upgrade I might as well buy a couple items that cost 10,000 in total. The upgrades are only worth it if you have, say, 20 grandmas? ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/23 "2013-09-21T16:22:52Z")
Yes, upgrades really aren’t good value. Wait until they’re 10% or less of the cost of buying another of the best thing you’ve already got, and even then, maybe wait longer. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/24 "2013-09-21T16:24:10Z")
Yes, the more you have of the items, the better the upgrades work. Also, the more achievements you have, the more milk you have, and sometimes some upgrades (like kittens) give you big boosts if you have a lot of milk…not to mention what you have to do to get some achievements (like you get one if you buy 50 or 100 of anything), also makes the upgrades help since you usually wind up having 50 or 100 of most things. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/25 "2013-09-21T16:36:36Z")
You bastard… ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/26 "2013-09-21T16:42:15Z")
Just to try, I bought 82 cursors and the million fingers upgrade (+0.5 cps for each non-cursor object, 50,000,000 cookies) and it only increased by cps by a few 1000, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/27 "2013-09-21T16:58:52Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > You bastard… How long you been playing now? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/28 "2013-09-21T16:59:37Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > Just to try, I bought 82 cursors and the million fingers upgrade (+0.5 cps for each non-cursor object, 50,000,000 cookies) and it only increased by cps by a few 1000, I think. The early ones don’t make too much of a huge change (since you’re still in the beginning stages)…but later on they start to do some heavy cookie making with each one. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/29 "2013-09-21T17:26:15Z")
Very fun. Perhaps not the most addictive online game I’ve ever played, but definitely lots of fun. I’m up to several antimatter condensers now. I am thinking about quitting but I guess I’ll just let it run in the background because… why not? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/30 "2013-09-21T17:28:16Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Ahhh, back in my early days in the game when 4 billion seemed like a lot. 😛 Nod. Now it takes longer to type “four billion cookies” than it does to make four billion cookies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/31 "2013-09-21T17:33:15Z")
Good thing I didn’t have anything I needed to do today. Some of the news items are pretty funny, I got one that said “_Cookie manufacturer forgoes common sense, lets OCD drive building decisions._” I think that’s from building in decreasing multiples of 10, which you also get an achievement for. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/32 "2013-09-21T17:48:40Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Very fun. Perhaps not the most addictive online game I’ve ever played, but definitely lots of fun. I’m up to several antimatter condensers now. I am thinking about quitting but I guess I’ll just let it run in the background because… why not? There’s a lot more to the game than meets the eye. There’s a pretty huge event that happens later on (that changes the course of the game some)…and don’t even get me started on explaining “Heavenly Cookies” to you (which you get if you “soft” reset your game and that helps makes your rise to power again go **twice as fast** in only _half the amount of time_ (depending on how many HCs you have)) But that’s still far away and the “Advanced Cookie-ing” for ya. You’re still in the low stages. 😛 Yes, even with a few Anti-Matter Condensers I’d say. 😉 Also, anyone find out about the “Golden Cookies” yet? ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/33 "2013-09-21T18:06:22Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Also, anyone find out about the “Golden Cookies” yet? 77sec spent clicking “in a frenzy” have never seem so long :o I still don’t know if it’s worth it to keep clicking when you get one of those though. I currently get 13millions cookies per click with the golden cookie effect, but since I’m also during that time getting 450 millions cps… I just know I’m bad at math. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/34 "2013-09-21T18:12:38Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I may be doing it wrong but my wrist does not like this game. > [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Actually clicking on the cookie is a non-issue after the first 5-10 minutes (or so) of gameplay, because the amount you get even without clicking gets to be a lot. > > Although you can always click on it anyway if you want to go for achievements. > [@dracoi](#): > > And for those of you wearing your wrists out: don’t bother. You have to click to unlock certain achievements, but if you’re clicking away at 8 cookies per click, you’ll feel really stupid later in the game when you can be clicking at 8,000 cookies per click. And then you’ll feel stupid again later when you can be clicking at 8,000,000 cookies per click. (And by that time, clicking is such a tiny percentage of your output, the only reason to click is to unlock the achievements.) So my advice is to pace yourself. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, you only click in the game for…about 5 minutes. Then the computer does the rest. It’s not just clicking. I have carpal tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/35 "2013-09-21T18:33:24Z")
Double-clicking fast on a trackpad tends to move the cursor off the cookie, but I have developed a nifty clicking technique on this laptop. Hover a finger over the trackpad, and then with the other hand, drum two fingers as fast as you can on top of that finger, making it “bounce” rapidly on the trackpad. Ten clicks per second easily. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/36 "2013-09-21T18:33:34Z")
> [@BleizDu](#): > > 77sec spent clicking “in a frenzy” have never seem so long :o > > I still don’t know if it’s worth it to keep clicking when you get one of those though. > I currently get 13millions cookies per click with the golden cookie effect, but since I’m also during that time getting 450 millions cps… > I just know I’m bad at math. I sometimes do… the one you want to definitely click for is when you get the (very rare) 777x frenzy (that lasts for 13 seconds). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/37 "2013-09-21T19:16:34Z")
At first I thought it was just the clicking, and thought the store was just a scoreboard. I was thinking it was pretty lame, and you’d have to be awfully bored to be addicted to it. Now, I’m trying to see if I can skip over a producer. My alchemy labs already cost double what a portal would, but I’m seeing if anything interesting happens if I just go straight to time machine (I’ll probably be able to afford one this evening, after I get home). ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/38 "2013-09-21T19:29:35Z")
I have a rule that 1000 cookies should buy me 1 cps, anything worse is a bad investment. Anyone else have rules or strategies? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/39 "2013-09-21T19:51:50Z")
I created a spreadsheet that calculates the “Dollars/CPS” cost for each new instance I buy of a particular producer. Right now, in order of best investment to worst investment, my list looks like this: Antimatter Condenser Cursor Portal Time Machine Alchemy Lab Shipment Grandma Mine Factory Farm The last 3 (mine, factory, farm) are essentially worthless and I will never buy another one. I bought up to 100 to get the achievements for them, and then never again. More than meets the eye huh? Hmm ok. I’ll keep going. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/40 "2013-09-21T20:39:16Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > I have a rule that 1000 cookies should buy me 1 cps, anything worse is a bad investment. Anyone else have rules or strategies? It’s just all about the your Cps to cost, for every decision you make. I’m finding that this is fantastic for my mental arithmetic, as I’ve got to estimate the value of everything to make the best investment. I’ve been trying to work out a good ratio to hold for the different producers, but nothing seems very efficient. It seems like farms, factories, and mines are terrible investments, though grandmas and cursors can be good investments after buying some upgrades for them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356.md?page=3)