Ah, there they are! Kind of cute. I shall name them Henry.
That’s not how you refresh. You click the menu button, and click the red “reset” button.
He wanted to refresh, not to reset. Refreshing leaves your game state where it is, but updates you to the latest version.
And I’m now going back into dormancy, as there are no goals left for me right now.
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Well, he was lamenting not having any heavenly chips, which is why I thought he wanted to reset.
I was figuring out how to get the wrinklers to appear- looks like refresh was it.
I’ll reset later and collect some heavenly chips then. I’m way behind though.
HCs will allow you to get back to where you are now much much faster…you could catch up pretty fast depending on how long you keep it running. 
As others have said, HC’s are based upon your all-time cookie count. They are granted at time of reset, and with them you will get a base multiplier. This multiplier is applied through a series of purchased upgrades in the new incarnation.
The effect of the multiplier is huge, so consider resetting whenever your all-time cookie count is 50% more than when it was at the previous reset.
I recently did a reset. The all time count was 69 quint (I know, I have a sickness), the previous count was 42 quint. I went from 9,185 HC (+18,370%) to 11747 HC (+23,494%) and was able to regain my cookie production in about 8 hours.
Brag: I’m now over 1 quintillion chips all-time (that’s above trillion and above quadrillion), and going from reset to 135/135 achievements now takes 16 hours. 
My brother (who admitted he cheated) has about 43,000 Heavenly Chips. He can get 100 Antimatter Condensers in about 10 minutes.
It’s at that point, though, that I believe the game has no point and loses being fun.
I’ve popped in this thread from time to time, amazed that people are playing this thing. It’s not my thing, I admit, but still, even when something ISN’T my thing, I try to understand why someone else would think it was enjoyable.
For this, I’m at a loss.
So, i will ask some questions that I’ve been wondering about.
How does the company that created this thing make money? You don’t pay to play, correct? So, can you pay for extra points or whatever is important, or is just letting it run all you need to do?
If this runs on your computer all the time, do you need to be on-line for it to run? And if you do, is it possible that the program is doing something else on your computer? Perhaps it is a spyware program, or malware program. Or, is it possible that it is running something else on your computer, i.e. stealing computing time somehow by running operations and returning the results to wherever without your knowledge?
I’m just spitballing here, obviously. But one thing that is true is that the people creating this program aren’t doing it for kicks in their spare time. They have to be making money somehow.
So, anyone have any guesses or ideas?
Thanks!
Why on earth would you think he (it’s just one guy) isn’t doing it for kicks in his spare time?
There are some ads on the page, but it does not seem to be a commercial endeavour. Just the effort of a young French programmer. A glance at the Javascript under the hood suggests to me that it is indeed the work of a solo enthusiast rather than a team of professional coders. Which is not meant as a criticism - I couldn’t have done it and it is impressive that he has, apparently by himself.
A huge amount of software is written “for kicks” in someone’s spare time. Particularly web games and such. Some folks value fame more than money, and lots of software developers are sufficiently funded from their “day jobs” to do this sort of stuff gratis. (It’s also not a very sophisticated app, technologically. The magic is in the concept and execution – I suspect the code probably only took a few days.)
Well, i don’t know. Maybe he or she is. But I’d find that highly unlikely. Would you do this for the hell of it? (Wait… Don’t answer that. You probably aren’t the right person to ask.)
Why would anyone paint a picture?
Wow.
I wasn’t attacking the programmer(s) or the concept of the software. If someone wrote this for fun in their spare time, they have much more spare time than I do. I guess that doesn’t mean someone didn’t just write this to see if they could do it, though. It just didn’t cross my mind. I would think that writing a software game that people were using, that took up resources on your own machine, and if any bugs are discovered people would expect them to be corrected quickly would become a pain in the neck.
Ximenean, you say you looked at the java script “under the hood”. Does that show everything? Or does it call some modules that are “black boxes” (ie, you can’t see the actual line by line code)?
I’m just curious if you can actually see everything that’s being run, or if there is any mystery code out there.
Like I said, you may not be the right people to ask this question to.
I’m not insulting anyone here. Clearly folks are enjoying this, so it’s no skin off my nose. People enjoy a lot of things I don’t understand, so enjoy.
But I can’t seem to equate this with painting a picture.
Why would there be any black boxes? He’d have to go out of his way to do that. As for pay, well, a decent web programmer could probably create that entire site from scratch in a couple of days’ worth of free time. It really isn’t that complicated.
It’s possible that the game could call on some back-end stuff that we can’t see, but the Javascript is entirely (and necessarily) visible to anyone who visits the website. Just view the source of the page and follow the links to the Javascript. The game logic seems to be all Javascript, as far as I can tell (there is quite a lot of it, so I haven’t read the whole thing).