KarlGrenze, do note that Hardcore is only possible in challenge mode. Which means that once you get it, you’ll want to immediately ascend just to get out of challenge mode, which would otherwise be brutally crippling.
Oh, and one of those achievements that I said a few weeks ago would take years? The 400 cursor one? I just got it. And it also turns out that, as of this update, cursors are a lot more powerful than they used to be: They’re currently accounting for over 10% of my production.
The new Bicentennial (and corresponding dragon-training, new cookie flavor, and a couple of other miscellaneous bonuses) is still several resets away, though. At least now there’s a good solid rule for when to reset: Reset whenever you can afford the next prestige upgrade or two you’re saving up for.
A good one for the free upgrade is the highest level fingers one you have. You can get to millions of cookies in seconds with it which makes a restart far easier. I’m using the one one that adds 500k cookies per second per non cursor object so a single grandma gets things moving fast.
Eh, those don’t take too long to earn honestly, either, though, and with Starter Kit and maybe Starter Kitchen, restarts are already pretty quick. Currently, I have three perma-upgrades, which I’m using for the biggest kitten and prism upgrade I’ve got, plus Omelet, because it’s just so annoying waiting for all of the eggs.
400 cursors is super easy now, as it only costs something like 200 septillion, which is nothing now. 500 cursors is indeed a new achievement, but even getting there only costs a bit over ~50 nonillion cookies.
300 prisms on the other hand, which is also a new achievement, costs well into the decillions. I’m not sure of the exact figure because I’m only at 180 prisms, but for me adding 100 more would cost ~1.3 decillion, and the last 20 are probably quite a lot more (by the way, I love how you can now hold Ctrl/Shift to add as well as see the total cost of 10/100 more of a building). Although the achievement to bake an undecillion cookies may still be the “hardest” one, if 300 prisms can be had for less than that.
There’s also the matter of ascending 100 times, with new ascensions apparently only counting if you get at least 1 new prestige level. Since this can take a bit of time from the fresh start, I’m thinking about grinding out a bunch of them (with optimal perma-upgrades) before getting my prestige level too high (currently at ~117k with ~40k banked for the next ascension).
Oh and by the way, forget about eldeer, I realized why frenzy/click frenzy combo is now far more powerful than it was (and it was already quite powerful): there’s several new upgrades to clicking power. In my current game I’ve gotten the combo only one time, and my total baked for the game is ~2.3 octillion with 837 septillion of those being handmade. Almost entirely from that one single combo. It’s insane.
And if you can afford to play with sound on, the “Golden cookie chime” prestige upgrade thing is really super nice for those of us who play it semi-idle a lot: lets you keep the window in the background without constantly having to check it visually for golden cookies, since you get a little sound notification when they pop.
That is how I would do it once I got 3 perma upgrade slots! But I am going to spend the 44k HCs on fast wrinklers, pretty much the same motive.
Yah, I have noticed that the legacy cost increases forever. When I upgraded, a legacy level cost about 5 sextillion. Now it is around 25 sextillion. At some point it will become prohibitive to ascend 100 times.
This is a secondary math spike that reflects the insane degree of increase in cookie production. My first ascension was for 53k+ prestige points. My production approached 1000x what it was on Monday, well over if you count the times I had the Golden Switch on.
Well, now I have more than doubled my previous prestige level and am ready to ascend again, after less than 48 hours. I have 400 cursors and 1 octillion cookies baked, mostly due to the massive production increase.
If the update had not come out and I had to wait 6 months to make it to 1 octillion, it would have meant more. OTOH, I don’t have to wait 6 months
Best strategy for the Chocolate Egg IMO is to wait until you are ready to ascend, then sell ALL your buildings and buy it last. (That may be what you did, I don’t know, but just throwing it out there for anyone who doesn’t know)
OK, how do I get Challenge mode on one ascension just to get that achievement, and also, how do I even get to change seasions? The upgrade to change them has not shown up in my shopping list yet.
For challenge mode, there is a little cookie next to the “Reincarnate” button on the ascension screen. Click it to select it (wasn’t obvious to me either).
The season switcher is no longer a regular upgrade - it’s a prestige upgrade now which you also get during the ascension screen (on the left side, cost is 1,111 HC).
:mad: :mad: That ascension screen was dark for me and I couldn’t get to see much. I tried clicking on the levels but I guess I had no way of knowing? Currently I have about 34,500 HC.
And don’t forget, before you do that, to switch your dragon aura to the one that lets you sell back at a better price, and make sure to pop all your wrinklers. You should also stop buying new buildings for a little while before a reset. The payoff from the Chocolate Egg is scaled by how much you have in the bank at the time (I think it’s 5%), and at some point, the cash you’d gain from 5% of 15% of the purchase price of a new building will be more than what that building would produce before ascension.
And has anyone found a use for “egg”, other than padding your count for the “buy a whole bunch of upgrades” achievement?
OK, new optimal build proportions: Keep buying whatever’s cheapest until everything’s the same price, then buy 14 more cursors, 1 more portal, 10 more antimatter, and 23 more prisms. From there, buy equal amounts of everything. This is assuming that you have enough cursors to get Octillion Fingers, but that you do not yet have the upgrades for 200 time machines, antimatter, or prisms. Once you get that last upgrade, buy five more of the corresponding building (or, rather, once you get to 195 of that building, buy five more and then get the upgrade).
Strictly speaking, these numbers will shift a bit as your total number of buildings changes, but this should be good for the approximate vicinity where most of us will be playing.
No, the wrinklers still appear, but there is a way to optimize the Golden Switch. The price is based on the current CPS including any Clots or Wrinklers or Frenzy. You should always click the switch when your CPS is hurting the most (clots+wrinklers). Conversely, don’t activate the Golden Switch during a Frenzy because the cost will be 7x higher.
