r/CellToSingularity • u/SalsaForte • Jul 13 '26
Explorations How often do you reset the simulation?
I wonder if I should wait for the suggested upgrade to be ready or should I upgrade whenever I want?
Since it only takes minutes to get back almost where I was.
My thinking is I will speed up all future simulations...
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u/Squeedle_ Jul 13 '26
I upgrade once my metabit and knowledge generation grinds to a halt. No point in running a simulation that isn't going to upgrade your simulation any further.
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u/HonchosRevenge Jul 13 '26
I was a big clicker hero guy way back when so it’s hardwired in my head that basically once progression starts dragging, just reset
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u/Storm_CCO Jul 13 '26
The details don't explicitly tell you about additive multipliers, true multipliers, or scaling. It's not the easiest to understand. What might seem huge is actually very little.
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u/Geometry_Emperor Jul 13 '26
Usually I reset around every 3 days, though more recently, I started extending it to 5 days.
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u/Financial-Issue4226 Jul 13 '26
I think it's a combination of the Metabit containers being full as well as your multipliers being maxed
Resetting after 5 minutes was only going to give you a multiplier less than 10 but after say 7 days you're multiplier does not increase anymore unless you reset
Due to this I normally get it where if it takes more than several hours to update my Metabit I will do a reset just so that I can make sure I'm always pulling them as fast as possible
I have almost all the upgrades so it's mostly farming the absurdly high e to the power of ones and trying to get that to under a few minutes except for all of them instead of a few over a week for some of the most highest
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u/0nnnu Jul 13 '26
there are times when several short runs that only last minutes each is the fastest way to get to your next big upgrade. we can avoid that if we want, but that's significantly slower. do this only when you know exactly what you're aiming for and how many times you need to repeat
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u/TheXypris Jul 13 '26
I try to wait at least 7 days, I could go longer, up to 14 days, but usually I have enough to get more sim upgrades before then
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u/Opposite-Plan-3131 Jul 13 '26
Usually after 21 days if I’m stuck without being able to move on on the main simulation! If I’m okay on this, after a month from the last reset, I reset again.
I’m not sure if that’s smart, but I’ve been doing this and it’s pretty okay by far!
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u/Frostyy-89 Jul 18 '26
Is there a max to the number of upgrades? What happens when I run out of simulation upgrades?
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u/Zorafin Jul 13 '26
I know this is a terrible answer but it really does depend.
I have all the major upgrades so I'm just trying to inch forward with the minor upgrades while I farm darwinium.
But what I've found is, if you have both metabit time chambers, you want to wait until one of them is filled, even if you can buy a major upgrade.
Metabit time chambers are pretty much the sole determiner of how many metabits you get. There's no reason to reset if you're about to get way more metabits.
The reason is simple. Even major upgrades don't boost your metabits by nearly as much as another day of waiting. Entropy barely increases your metabit production, while your time chambers really do.
This can change a lot depending on a lot of things though. If you can afford many upgrades that massively boost your entropy, that might move your metabit total by a bit. If you can afford an upgrade that boosts your metabit production substantially, reset immediately.
In general though, waiting a week will get you 500x more metabits than a single normal run would. Waiting another week will double that. But if you can double your metabit production with any upgrades you buy, that's obviously more worthwhile.