READ THE GENERAL GUIDE PAGE Page: Guide BEFORE READING THIS
READ THE GENERAL GUIDE PAGE Page: Guide BEFORE READING THIS
Previous: Progress 1 - ee2000
Disclaimer: This is a simplified version of the guide. The guide will skip over things, and is not completely optimal. For a more polished, in-depth, and optimal guide, read https://exponential-idle-guides.netlify.app/
Some terms that are used here
Some terms that are used here
Research upgrades are the upgrades in the graduation menu that costs students, they are numbered from top to bottom
Rn means research upgrade n. this is from top to bottom, so R1 would mean research upgrade 1, which is the one that says phi1 = dt^n
What is the star symbol in phi3? It means total stars, including spent ones
What upgrades should I buy? Read below, but, if in doubt, use the student calculator
Can I respec my research upgrades? Yes.
Graduation main equation explanation
Graduation main equation explanation
Just like the main equation, it looks intimidating but isn't that difficult. The capital Pi notation means product and is like sigma notation but for multiplication. For those who don't know what I'm talking about what the equation means is this:
phi = phi1 * phi2 * phi3 ...
Basically, your main phi, the one in the main equation is equal to all the other phi's multiplied together. For example, if your phi1 was 6 and by phi2 was 7 and all your other phi's were 1 (1 is the minimum), your total or main phi would be 42
Because of properties of exponents, the multiplication is very simple. This property is 10^a * 10^b = 10^(a+b). For example, 1e10 * 1e20 = 1e30. This effectively turns the multiplication into addition.
For example, if your phi1 was 3e7 and your phi2 was 2e8 (and the rest are 1) your total/main phi would be (3*2)e(7+8) = 6e13
New main equation explanation
New main equation explanation
The equation has changed from f(t+dt) = f(t) * e ^ bxdt to f(t+dt) = f(t) * e ^ bxϕ𝜏dt.
The phi you get from buying research upgrades
The tau you get from doing theories, which you unlock at 5k f(t)
What upgrade should I buy?
What upgrade should I buy?
Note: There are some pre-set distributions in the progress sections, so check there for some quick distribution (though may not be 100% optimal)
Just like the variables and upgrades in the main equation, use can use the little i button to look at how much phi each upgrade gives you, and how much power it has. You can use this to pick the upgrades that give the best phi/student. Note, that costs increase as you purchase more of them, so you're looking for best phi/student, not just best phi.
Remember, you can respec your student upgrades so don't be afraid to experiment
The star is R3 is your total stars, including spent ones
What's the phi exponent upgrade?
What's the phi exponent upgrade?
Honestly, this explanation is terrible, read https://exponential-idle-guides.netlify.app/guides/2k-5k/#phi-upgrades.
R1-6 are simple, they provide phi directly. R7, the phi exponent, increases your phi's exponent. This is easier with an example:
Lets say your phi is 1e100. After buying R7, your phi is now phi^1.1 increasing it's exponent by 10%, Your phi would now be 1e110. Buying another level increaces it to phi^1.2, which now means phi's exponent is now increased by 20%
Because the i doesn't show you how much R7 gives you, you have to kinda work it out yourself, if not for the student calculator!
What are these "grad routes"?
What are these "grad routes"?
Graduation routs, or grad routes for short, tell you when, optimally to graduate. This is shown in f(t). For example, if the graduation route tells you to grad at 4k f(t), than once you reach 4k ft, grad.
Graduation routs are written in an arrow notation, with each grad as a number. For example:
2k -> 4k -> 4.8k -> 5k
means the graduate when your f(t) is 2k, than 4k, than 4.8k, than 5k
Auto-prestige
Auto-prestige
There are 2 autoprestige formulae. This first one works for progress 0 to ee2000, and the second one works for all stages of the game. At this point you should use the second one if you aren't already
Fomula 2
((timer(pt * d(ln(ln(db / b + 1))) < 1)> 3 * tr && db > b &&((d(smooth(10^10^10^(phi * tau), 1)) > 1)&& timer(abs(d(log10(phi + 1))) < 50) > 15))&& phi > 1) ||((timer(pt * d(ln(ln(db / b + 1))) < 1)> 3 * tr) && db > b &&((phi >= 1 && phi <= 1) ||((0.8 * log10(log10(lf)) > log10(log10(gf))) ||(0.8 * log10(log10(gf)) > log10(log10(sf))))))
Autoprestige explanation in the actual guide:
Formula 2 (builds off formula one so read that first): https://exponential-idle-guides.netlify.app/guides/intro-to-grad/#autoprestige-explanation
Student calculator, and how to use and read it
Student calculator, and how to use and read it
Just like organising your star upgrades, you can organise your student upgrades. The use the student calculator, use !sigma in the #bot-commands channel in the exponential idle discord server, or use the one online at https://conicgames.github.io/exponentialidle/students.html. This will give you the most optimal star distribution.
The use the student calculator, enter you current values of students (not in theories), t, and ft, and your total stars, including spent ones. (also ad bonus and accel but those are pretty self explanatory.) If these values are changing too rapidly, now is not the time to use the student calculator, wait a bit until it settles. You should do student calculations regularly, one per graduation and once every few hundred ft's if anything has changed.
The student calculator outputs some info, as well as a student distribution, as a list of numbers. for example, consider the list 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0. This means to put 2 levels in R1, 2 levels in R2, 1 level in R3, and no students in the rest. The seven numbers correspond to upgrades 1 through 7. You should always have R8 (theories) at the maximum you can get it, exception at ee12k ft.
If you can't afford R8 and don't know what theories are, don't worry, they're post 5k (unless you are post 5k in which case, buy theories now!!!)
Other Miscellaneous Info
Other Miscellaneous Info
Turn off autoprestige at ee5 below a graduation point. As this point it's faster to push than recover. However, never turn of autobuyers. Graduations are based of graduation ft, which doesn't decrease when you buy variables or upgrades.
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