u/jasonryu

I need like 250k purple cookies to unlock the next door (plus hit the level requirement).

How should I strategize my cookie factory upgrades? Is there a certain number I should never go past? (Like don’t ever go above 50/200 for any stove/factory/etc?)

How often should I be prestiging? Should I do it once I hit a certain cookie rate? Or once I reach a certain cookie amount? (I understand accidental prestiges are a big risk)

Aside from the permanent cookie rate upgrades, when should I start saving the purple cookies in order to open the door?

Assuming I check in periodically, how many months or so should this section take?

Other tips/strategies for this area? (Already unlocked the deliverer bots so I can afk, but I need a lot of arrows to upgrade their cargo capacity)

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?

Currently at lv 3 in Brain's lab. I know it will take roughly a year or more to max out the Vend o mat. (Which is beyond insane)

What should I be prioritizing or to what point? Like, should I prioritize getting to level five before going for the vend o mat? Or should I focus on certain upgrades in the vendo mat and then ignore rest until brain is maxed out or a certain level?

If it matters I still haven't maxed out james's shop yet. I haven't unlocked all the enemies yet or beaten the secret key

Ice market warm regen: 195/200

84/100 Heat resistance from red essence evolution

78/100 heat resistance from purple essence evolution

I can finally move around in the absolute zero zones without freezing anymore

Just unlocked level 15 too, but still not strong enough to take on the secret key boss w/o ping ponging for an annoyingly long time (and my catch radius is juuuust short enough that he sometimes escapes it

Been playing since beginning of May

Portal is open but I'm focusing on James Shop since I can actually afk, unlike in the lab.

Side note, any strategies for farming brains and black goo?

I was in first place the entire time. Watched it count down to 0 seconds still in 1st place

I get my event reward? 2nd place

Absolute BS

Just fully upgraded my furnace.

Should I focus on maxing out the 2000 catching speed upgrades or the stability upgrades for the portal reactor?

Factory and chem plant aren't fully upgraded yet, but they're not too far off. Maybe a week or 2 from full upgrade

I've had my phone running almost nonstop catching dragons. Started off in 1st place for a while, then dropped to 2nd, currently in 3rd and the amount to reach 2nd keeps increasing slowly

I don’t mess with time skipping, but yeah, pretty blatantly impossible to get 1st without spending money. And absolutely no shot at getting all the upgrades either

I just unlocked the 4 star upgrades (crab claws) that start at 36 and go up by 9 with each purchase (all 11 skills available)

If my math is right, I'll need over 141k blue eggs to max out all the skill trees before getting the final 5 star upgrades (red thorns)

How many eggs needed to max out the rest? 700k? Millions?