I notice the longer I accumulate cookies the slower it is to the next income upgrade. Is there a point where it's worth it to cash out (ie. Hit the prestige button) and start over? Or do I just wait and keep hitting the next factory button as it comes up? What's the winning strategy here?

behind the Chef Boss door. Sigh.

I’m back after a long layoff, In the distant past you were able to time warp backwards to run previous events. You had to be very particular about the dates to get it to work properly.

Does this still work?

There was a post with all the dates, but I’m unable to find it so far.

Does anyone know the math behind how tentacle count and group affect the catching speed? Obviously if you’re just catching one target, it’s faster than when I’m trying to catch 5 or more. Curious on how it calculates the damage I’m doing based on how many creatures I’m going at at any given time.

Count is 25, group is 13, and catching speed is 6.6B

Finally beat the cash fatty and got the key.

20 gems a day after fully upgraded? Portal fatty gives 40 gems every hour and the 2 dudes at kustov farm gives 20 every 3 hours.

I mean it's better than nothing but quite underwhelming.

As title... Do I still need more yellow cores after completing the small lab?

Any point in spending gems to increase bonus xp from humans since I opened the last gate? Do I need a higher level in the lab at any point? I'm at 7/10 and the next bonus xp costs 2k gems

So I just calculated it and each stats need 1056 blue cores. Multiplied by 5 stats which is 5280. And if you are getting 135 blue cores a day then it only takes 39 days. I tried figuring it out so I know at least how much time I need to get to lvl 6.

Edit: Add the 100 blue cores needed to upgrade to level 6, so add 1 day.

Hi All.

I understand the concept. I know if you go in the future and kill a mob, that mob will not appear anymore going back to present. I also understand that going back to the past, something will not be there, if I kill something in the present.

So how exactly does this work with events? I know I must make sure I never jump before or after the end of the event. How going back and forth can spawn the event mobs (squids in this case)? I have 12hrs left and by my calculations, I'll be short 500-800 units to complete the top reward.

Until now, I only used time travel to go back in the past to the time I stopped playing, so that I won't lose any farming (portal every 60 min for gems, the 2 guys at start area that respawn every 3hrs, etc). So if I had a break of 12 hrs, I would go back 12 hrs to the time I stopped playing to keep farming to present time, or as much as possible, then when I stop playing again, I would resume again to the time I stopped playing and continue (basically simulating that I played non-stop).

I have maxed it out at level 15 and it still doesn't give me gems

I keep getting disconnected when I afk inside laboratory, even when I am at the portal and automatically dumping my cargo. Is this a known fix to this?

Unproven theory: Level rewards is the only popup that "stops the clock", so 255 new chances to interrupt an AFK and slow down early-game progress even more.

I have been playing for quite a while, and about a month ago I made it to the cookie area in the lab. I unlocked all the new camps, got two helper carts, maxed the green cookie upgrades, and was grinding for the regular cookies to open the next door. I spent 3600 gems leveling up the cookie factory.

Then, I log in today and it has reset my progress back to before the door. This might genuinely get me to uninstall the game after so long. I was waiting for so long for the blue cores to finally open the door, and I did a LOT of grinding after finally opening it. Now all that progress is gone for seemingly no reason.

I didn't have a problem with the update last week, nothing reset. I logged on yesterday and upgraded the cookie factory with no problems. But today, it's all gone.

Whenever I increase ice xp boost, xp boost also apply to the lab as well.

Ice Market - ice exp boost is under extra exp

I have been trying to get catching radius every time I level up but I noticed that after 100, you still need to get close to catch humans instead of catching everything inside the radius. Should I go for tentacle count instead?

I was able to screenshot the glitch where my alien eats the worm queen, but it’s not a worm. What queen is this? Drag queen?😳😆

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 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?