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[Glloyd]

So, I blitzed through the whole "Time" comic today. The game makes a lot more sense now. An amazing comic too, everyone should definitely go through the whole thing.

[andrea]

how do I unlock river?

[Falknor]

My question relates.. How do you unlock the ladder?

Also, I don't know how to unlock the river.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

You need something like 8 flags to unlock the ladder, and 16 waves to unlock the river.

[Falknor]

Thanks, I noticed that as well since I just recently opened both up. 

[andrea]

it is 4 flags for a ladder

[Elephant Parade]

Is selling off excess newpixbots during Judgement Dip a good idea?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Is selling off excess newpixbots during Judgement Dip a good idea?

They tend to produce more than they destroy at that point [unless you have like.. 80 Dip level, which shouldn't happen unless you're messing about with the time travel with impunity] so just hold onto them and wait for all the JD upgrades. More NPB you have at that point the better, as the JD upgrades boost all of your different tool production by the number of NPBs you have.

[Zorgn]

Alright, I'm at a point in the game where my progress is slowing, and I have some options that could get me up to speed, but I really don't know which ones to pick.

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I'm currently post Dip, and bring in something like 13G castles each newpic. Problem is, all my tools are getting seriously expensive, and the boosts I'm eying are even worse. Rivers are bringing in the vast majority of all my castles, with bags supercharging their output. I'm sitting on a trillion castles, but that is almost entirely due to synergy between the Blast Furnace and Fractal Sandcastles. If I'm blitzing at the time, it's even better.

Anyway. I have Swim Between the Flags as a choice. I can almost afford it, but I don't know how well it would compare with my rivers. There's also a bunch of Trebuchet upgrades that I can get to relatively quickly, but again, I don't know how well they'll measure up. The vast majority of them are also extremely expensive, multiple trillions of castles, and I still don't know how well they'd stack up. I also have Vitsagen, JA! open, but I tried it once, and was unimpressed with it. My castle income is low enough that I can't really justify a trillion castles for N+1 million castles every hundred clicks, and I sure can't afford further Swedish boosts.

Least favorite idea is dumping all my castles into pumping up my river income, and ignoring the game for a week or two...

[Mictlantecuhtli]

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I'm currently post Dip, and bring in something like 13G castles each newpic. Problem is, all my tools are getting seriously expensive, and the boosts I'm eying are even worse. Rivers are bringing in the vast majority of all my castles, with bags supercharging their output. I'm sitting on a trillion castles, but that is almost entirely due to synergy between the Blast Furnace and Fractal Sandcastles. If I'm blitzing at the time, it's even better.

Anyway. I have Swim Between the Flags as a choice. I can almost afford it, but I don't know how well it would compare with my rivers. There's also a bunch of Trebuchet upgrades that I can get to relatively quickly, but again, I don't know how well they'll measure up. The vast majority of them are also extremely expensive, multiple trillions of castles, and I still don't know how well they'd stack up. I also have Vitsagen, JA! open, but I tried it once, and was unimpressed with it. My castle income is low enough that I can't really justify a trillion castles for N+1 million castles every hundred clicks, and I sure can't afford further Swedish boosts.

Least favorite idea is dumping all my castles into pumping up my river income, and ignoring the game for a week or two...

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Buy every single upgrade. Every boost. All of them.

On Vitsaggen, Ja! you really need to get an autoclicker to get the most out of it. As the boost gets used the 'speed' of Vitsaggen increases [viewable by clicking 'stats and then going to the boost]. I got something like 2.4 Z castles every 100 clicks [15.6k speed] before it lost it's usefulness.

But, buy all the upgrades you can when you can. There's not much that isn't 'useful' in one way or another, honestly.

[Zorgn]

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Buy every single upgrade. Every boost. All of them.

On Vitsaggen, Ja! you really need to get an autoclicker to get the most out of it. As the boost gets used the 'speed' of Vitsaggen increases [viewable by clicking 'stats and then going to the boost]. I got something like 2.4 Z castles every 100 clicks [15.6k speed] before it lost it's usefulness.

But, buy all the upgrades you can when you can. There's not much that isn't 'useful' in one way or another, honestly.

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I suppose what I was getting at is that some boosts are less useful than others. I was looking for something along the lines of "_____ is particularly awesome, get it first." Which I don't seem to need anymore, because I just tried out Swim Between the Waves, and am muchly pleased. I was getting like 23k castles from each wave, and now am getting 1.5G or so. Dunno how exactly the math works out on that, but I don't think I'll worry too much about it.

[Toaster]

Spoiler: SBTF (click to show/hide)

It's a cumulative boost.  Therefore, if you have F flags, your wave production is multiplied by 1.06^F.  At 30 flags, that's 5.74.  At 100 flags, that's 339.3.  At 300 flags, it's 39 million and some change.

It's awesome, and you should get it.

Also, if you see a boost that says "Power X of Y," that's a hint that something good happens if you get X to Y.

[beorn080]

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When you unlock time travel, use it. You can get a lot of badges quickly, and if you use it while unable to pay for it, you unlock the flux capacitor, which is cheap. With that, you have a 1/4 chance of getting a free NPB, up to 30, whenever you time travel. Extremely useful, but do be careful, as time travel and the free NPB speeds up judgement dip.

[jellyman]

I found the game to be quite slow and confusing too at first, until after half a day I started reading through all the text boxes on the boosts and badges and a few aspects of the gameplay that had been confusing me became clear and I was better able to make progress.  At the same time I had my month long game of cookie clicker going, and didn't make a single purchase, while I had made at least a dozen or so purchases here, so in that way its odd that the game felt so slow.

I'm also finding it interesting that everytime I find a good combination for earning stuff, the balance shifts and I need to find a new combination.

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Dirty rotten Monty Haul problem.  I have got the goat now 4 times out of 4 (and another two times when I didn't save)

[Toaster]

I'm also finding it interesting that everytime I find a good combination for earning stuff, the balance shifts and I need to find a new combination.

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Same here.  After unlocking every Panther Salve upgrade, Not Lucky has become my best source of castles again.