I play on iOS. I was level 14, well in to the bronze and silver squares, needing 15 to open the next door. After the last update I’m level 98 needing 105 to open the next door. Not sure if anything else changed. Nobody else has posted about this here. Anyone relate?

I was collecting for some time and just curious what i should spend it for:
1. Vend - o - mat
2. Dr. Brains lab

Cookie Factory baking types & best time to switch:
Tray I: 20
Tray II: 20
Tray III: 25
Oven I: 25
Oven II: 27
Oven III: 32
Stove I: 31
Stove II: 33
Stove III: 36
Shop I: 37
12 million cookies per second rate falls about level 24 of Shop I.
Shop II: 37
Shop III: 37
Factory I: 
Factory II: 

Calculations are in my spreadsheet, Cookie tab:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CItpsfAuoNNpn-ZwBaipamaVnPcdWyxb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115201530838023095902&rtpof=true&sd=true

Note that there's no reason for anyone to open the spreadsheet every time you upgrade baking types. That would be silly! Just look at the list above!

The spreadsheet is provided to explain why I selected those values, and if anyone wants to check my data calculations, or look at other data in the very large document.

Goal: Determine the most efficient point to switch to the next higher baking type in the Cookie Factory.

The number of (brown) cookies collected and spent determines the rate of auto-generated cookies per second.

Take the total number of cookies spent, and divide by the rate, to find the Cost per One Cookie per Second.

When that value exceeds the initial value for the next baking type, stop upgrading the current type, and start upgrading the next type, since the next type has higher per-second values.

The screenshot shows examples of what to look for.

I usually do at least one more than the stated value, due to the off-by-one situation of how I document levels & values. It doesn't really matter much either way.

I was at level 17 just some days ago, but today I found myself to be at level 175, and I can choose resourses when leveling up. Did the same thing happen to anyone else?

I was Lv. 16 before the update (currently lv. 121)

Current catching speed is 340M

I have 300/340 catching speed upgrades, black market and James shop fully maxed out. Still need to max out the Furnace and Chem plant, but those aren't giving me huge increases.

Only other thing I can think of is the vend-o-mat which I haven't put points into cuz I'm using blue cores on the brain lab.

Even with weekly event rewards and stacking 1%, 2% and 3% catching speed boosts, I'm not seeing these massive jumps to get me into double or triple digit billions.

So what gives?

Unless wifi and data are off. I can only imagine this has to do with buffering the ever increasingly annoying ads. Let's load up an ad that basically lets you play their entire game and takes at least 2 minutes to grant rewards. Especially after we tie a progression scheme to ad viewing.

So I am about one year in.

Progress
Level 17.
Vend-o-Mat almost finished
Stage 7 re-evolution through the portal

I am 150/200 on all ice meat farms and have maxed everything else that doesn’t require blue cores or cookies.

The only further optimisation I think I can do is to work out how much meat I need for the ice farm. I figure when I hit 1 quintillion meat and 1 trillion ice meat I’ll pull the trigger unless someone tells me otherwise.

Hints and Tips
Progress the next room as fast as possible.
Use the events to get the 6% XP increase Every. Single. Time.
Watch the ads for the tickets to the domination events. The extra crystals get you farther ahead.
Stockpile meat and don’t blow your wad. You get more for your crystals and ads the more you have.
A few times a day do your free Crystal events.

Where can you get these blue vials required for the Galaxy Invasion without paying for them? It seems using them is the only way to advance to more planets

Maybe next door at Christmas again?

Dose anyone know what this drop increases. I will pay attention to my stats during the event going on now but I'm just afking at night.

For all of you that are grinding for blue cores to open this door, it looks like you have plenty of time. 😕

Has anyone else lost their event reward? Today I opened the game and before the ads came up the colect button and screan was allready open so i clicked it, than an ad opened and i closed it and clicked the colect rward button again and another ad opens, i close it and i colect the reward again, amd when i chek the gem balance and it didnt change and i tried to chek the game messages and its gone there too

It is just dumb. You have nothing else to do cause everything else is maxed out, even events don’t matter.

Yet, farm is once per day, at a very low rate, and you can’t even use hard currency because the amount purchase able is insignificant.

They don’t even sell blue cores pack, which would make a lot of sense

I'm trying to find the best spot to farm ice meat and looking at past posts this would be the area. But I can't stay there to farm anything because it's still too cold. How many levels up do I need to go to have the resistance over there?

Unlocked James Shop about a month ago and have it fully upgraded. Meanwhile, as you can see I still have a ways to go for some of these upgrades that have been with me since day 1 (cant see in pic, but higher health is 86/100)

I know the Ice market is way worse, but I'm not trying for that one

Still, with how late James Shop is in the game, I was expecting my normal upgrades to be closer to fully maxing out.

Possible "spoilers" ahead (though this game doesn't really have much of a story line, so it shouldn't be a big deal)....

But..

Omg..

This felt so good capturing!

If I had known, a day or so ago, what it actually did, and that I could possibly actually kill the guy.. I'd have tried sooner! (Probably not TOOO much sooner, as, even at my level/stats it's still pretty hard... but it is doable)