Previous: Theory 8 and R9
This is it. The final theory. The final story chapter. Good job getting here. Good luck with T9. Endgame awaits
When you've completed it, welcome to endgame. This page contains a some extra info for endgame, and strats further on in theories. Have fun seeing your rates slowly drop closer and closer to 0
Disclaimer: This is a simplified version of the guide. The guide will skip over things, and is not completely optimal. Click here for a more polished, in-depth, and optimal guide.
Do T9 before 50k f(t)
There is no guide for T9. The fun is in solving it yourself. Good luck!
There are no set grad routes past ee20k
The graduation calculator is a great tool to be able to find your next grad point. To use this tool, enter your phi and tau, and it will give you our next grad point. When you reach that grad point, enter the information again. It will give you a new grad point. Continue this until the calculator gives you your correct ft. That's where you should grad
If you overshoot your grad point the grad calc will often tell you to go to the next one, and the next one, over and over. The grad calc is not perfect. Use common sense as well
At later ft's (50k+) the grad calc loses accuracy. At ft's like those, you have to estimate good grad marks yourself. Using the student calculator can help you calculate bigmas and skipmas. Try to grad on bigmas and not on skipmas
A guide on how to use the grad calc is here
A bigma is a student that provides more phi then usual, usually over 1e9 more phi.
A skipma is a student that provides no extra phi
When deciding when to graduate, calculate your optimal student distribution with the amount of students you would have after a graduation. Then calculate 1 minus that amount. If the values are far apart (usually over 1e9) you are on a bigma. If the amount doesn't change, meaning you have unspent students in the optimal theory distribution, you are on a skipma
Here is a list of skipmas:
| Always skipped | 29.8k, 30.2k, 30.8k, 31.4k, 32.0k, 32.6k, 33.2k, 33.8k, 34.2k, 34.6k, 35.4k, 36.2k, 37.0k, 37.8k, 38.6k, 39.0k, 39.6k, 40.6k, 41.6k, 42.6k, 43.6k, 44.2k, 44.6k, 45.0k, 45.8k, 47.0k, 48.2k, 49.0k, 49.4k, 50.2k, 50.6k, 51.2k, 52.2k, 53.2k, 54.6k, 56.0k, 56.8k, 57.4k, 58.8k, 60.2k, 60.6k, 61.8k, 63.4k, 65.0k, 65.8k, 66.2k, 66.6k, 67.8k, 68.2k, 69.8k |
| High t (5x) | 62.4k, 63k |
| Mid-High t (1x +) | 64.2k |
| Low-Mid t (1x -) | 58.2k, 59.4k |
| Low-Mid t (0.5x) | 64.6k |
Past 70k you will need to calculate skipmsa yourself
Bet you didn't think you'd see this here! After getting all supremacy upgrades, the supremacy formulae changes. These new formulae do not require a manual supremacy. They are:
Past 48k
costUpS(1)<e52&&psi+dpsi>e52)||(costUpS(3)<e411&&psi+dpsi>e411)||(costUpS(3)<e511&&psi+dpsi>e511)||(costUpS(3)<e531&&psi+dpsi>e531) ||(costUpS(3)<e551&&psi+dpsi>e551)||(costUpS(3)<e571&&psi+dpsi>e571)
Past 52k:
(costUpS(1)<e52&&psi+dpsi>e52)||(costUpS(3)<e511&&psi+dpsi>e511)||(costUpS(3)<e571&&psi+dpsi>e571)
Past 58k - 60k:
(costUpS(1)<e52&&psi+dpsi>e52)||(costUpS(3)<e571&&psi+dpsi>e571)
You goal is to get the maximum tau as fast as possible. Before R9, it didn't matter what order you push theories in, pushing T2 to 1e100 and then pushing T5 to 1e100 thkes the same time, however, now that R9 boosts theories based on students, to maximise taudot you have to push theories as fast as you can to get R9 quickly.
Therefore, the greedy way to push theories is obvious, push the fastest theory to get more R9. This is immediately obvious and is not that bad
However, there is another way. R9 affects all theories differently. It affects some theories more then others. This means that the greedy way is not actually the best way to push theories. This is called overpushing.
2 initial points for distribution overpushing
So, if we pushed T5 now, it would be inefficient, because we could have pushed T5 later and gotten more speed. Pushing T2 now is still worse than pushing it later, but because it is effected so little by R9, the difference is smaller. So you should push T2 now and T5 later
Example:
| Theory | Now | Later |
|---|---|---|
| T2 | 0.1 \(\tau\)/h | 0.11 \(\tau\)/h |
| T5 | 0.1 \(\tau\)/h | 0.2 \(\tau\)/h |
Option 1: T2 now, T5 later
Rates: 0.1 for T2 and 0.2 for T5. average is 0.15
Option 2: T5 now, T2 later
Rates: 0.11 for T2 and 0.1 for T5. average is 0.105
Pushing some combination of T2 and T5 just puts you somewhere between these 2 values, thus you should push T2 now and T5 later.
Note that this isn't always true, eventually T2 will get so slow that it's actually better to do T5, because T2 just takes ages and you'll get nowhere, therefore, there are specific ratio's for each theory depending on how much they are affected by R9. Therefore, we have created ratios to tell you how much you should overpush each theory
The overpushing ratios are as follows
You should push the theory which has the highest \(\tau\)/h * ratio
A way to describe distribution overpushing is that overpushing "stores energy". Short term, distribution overpushing is terrible, as it just means you are pushing the wrong theory. Thus distribution overpushing "stores energy" that is used later. However, this is only good if you do use it later. As you get further into the game, the time it takes gets ridiculous, and you may want to cash in all that stored energy.
Cashing in refers to switching from distribution overpushing to pushing theories the greedy way. This is faster short term, but slower long term, however, the are more scenarios you'd want to do it:
There is a more advanced strat for T1 known as T1SolarXLII which is found here
Other than that, there are no new strats. T1ratio or T1SolarXLII all the way
Past full milestones you can either Autobuy all or, better still do the strat T2MC
✔️ - Always buy, ❌ - Never buy
| var | Pub Multi < 1150 | Pub Multi 1150-2250 | Pub Multi 2250-2900 | Pub Multi 2900-4650 | Pub Multi > 4650 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| \(q_1\) & \(r_1\) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| \(q_2\) & \(r_2\) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| \(q_3\) & \(r_3\) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| \(q_4\) & \(r_4\) | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
After 1e250 you should be doing the strat T3noC11C13C21C33d:
| \(b_1\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{8}\) of \(c_{31} cost\) |
| \(b_2\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{4}\) of \(min(c_{12}, c_{22}, c_{32})\) cost |
| \(b_3\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{8}\) of \(c_{23}\) cost |
| \(c_{11}\) | Never buy |
| \(c_{12}\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{13}\) | Never buy |
| \(c_{21}\) | Never buy |
| \(c_{22}\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{23}\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{31}\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{32}\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{33}\) | Never buy |
Finally at 1e350 you should swap to T3SNAX2, strat courtesy of the great helpers Snaeky and XLII. Note that this strategy was made for QOL theory compatibility, which is why we have these weird ratio's
| var | Recovery | Tau gain |
|---|---|---|
| \(b_1\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{10}\) of \(\rho_1\) | Never buy |
| \(b_2\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{3}\) of \(\rho_2\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{3}\) of \(\rho_2\) |
| \(b_3\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{5}\) of \(\rho_3\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{5}\) of \(\rho_3\) |
| \(c_{11}\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_{12}\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{100}\) of \(\rho_2\) | Always buy |
| \(c_{13}\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_{21}\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_{22}\) | Always buy | When cost is \(\frac{1}{8}\) of \(\rho_2\) |
| \(c_{23}\) | Always buy | Always buy |
| \(c_{31}\) | Always buy | Always buy |
| \(c_{32}\) | Always buy | Always buy |
| \(c_{33}\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{10}\) of \(\rho_2\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{10}\) of \(\rho_2\) |
After 1e275 the best strategy if T4d66noMod:
The pub multi for T4d66noMod is 3.5 - 4.5
| var | Recovery | Tau gain |
|---|---|---|
| \(c_1\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_2\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_3\) | Always buy | Always buy |
| \(c_4\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_5\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(c_6\) | Never buy | Never buy |
| \(q_1\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{15}\) of \(min(q_2, c_3) cost\) | When cost is \(\frac{1}{15}\) of \(min(q_2, c_3) cost\) |
| \(q_2\) | Always buy | When cost is \(\frac{2}{3}\) of \(min(q_2, c_3) cost\) |
With T5, the best strat is always T5AI
T6noC34d (or T6AInoMod) is the best strat from here on out, except for T6AI which is described here
after e300 you should do T7Playspqcey, which is equivalent to T7Playspqceyinfinity or the following chart:
| \(q_1\) | When \(\frac{1}{4}\) of \(c_6\) cost |
| \(c_1\) | Never buy |
| \(c_2\) | Never buy |
| \(c_3\) | When \(\frac{1}{10}\) of \(c_6\) cost |
| \(c_4\) | When \(\frac{1}{10}\) of \(c_6\) cost |
| \(c_5\) | When \(\frac{1}{4}\) of \(c_6\) cost |
| \(c_6\) | Always buy |
There is a more advanced strat for T8 known as T8Solarswap which is found here
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