Cookie Clicker

[Brandi]

lol I'm sorry I insinuated it. I wasn't 100% honestly if you were using an golden cookie timer or not. Thanks for clarifying so I can be in awe of your dedication.

GUYS DRK IS NOT A CHEATER HE IS PURE TOO OK AND REALLY GOOD AT CLICKING GOLDEN COOKIES

[DeathRowKitty]

For a few days, I was tabbing out constantly during LoL games to make sure I didn't miss too many of them. I'm that lame.

[Brandi]

no you mean you are that AWESOME

I have <300 golden cookies D:

[Sudo_Nym]

I only have like 30 cookies and 0 golden cookies because I got bored with the game after like 30 clicks

[Ankamius]

I use Cookie Monster at this point mainly because the endgame is abysmally boring without it.

[saulres]

You have to

watch

it to get golden cookies?

Screw that. I'll just let it chug-a-lug on its own.

[Brandi]

Just reached my first quad, and at only 300 golden cookies too.

I think I will wait until I have 100 AC's before my first reset.

[NabakovNabakov]

This game is great for booting up, going to work, and coming home and feeling as if you've accomplished something.

Currently around 6b cps, buying the British cookies one by one because I'm too impatient to save up for the last kitten upgrade. I should be ready for a soft reset next week, hopefully in time for dungeons.

[saulres]

Damn, I'm not even making 1 billion / second yet.

I bought a lot of cheap stuff, that's probably why. Me and patience still not getting along.

[RayFrost]

Little more than 3 hours in or so. 4.5m cps. Got first AC.

Yay.

And a short time later I hit another AC thanks to gold cookie and now I'm at 6 million. Whoo.

[AGar]

Just reached my first quad, and at only 300 golden cookies too.

I think I will wait until I have 100 AC's before my first reset.

I did my first reset last night after reading up on ACs and finding out it takes nearly 30 quadrillion cookies to get 100 ACs. Even with golden cookie clicks, you're better off getting the heavenly chips once you have a decent amount. I was at about 20B CpS and I was getting one or two ACs a day on average.

[Antihero]

I hit about 6 million cps.

Then I realized that this game wasn't fun...

[AGar]

Post reset (with just over 9 quadrillion in the bank for heavenly chips, +270% CpS) I'm already back up to 1B CpS in just over 16 hours.

[saulres]

What's an AC?

[AGar]

Anti-matter condenser. The highest production building you can buy.

[saulres]

Ah, thank you. Yes, I'm familiar with them, as I have 53 of them chugging merrily away. And by the time I get home I think I should be able to buy the Big Bang Bake. Then I think I'm going to just let it keep running until I can buy all the upgrades before resetting 'cause that's just the way I am.

[Rhinox]

I have ~75m CpS...

[Brandi]

Just reached my first quad, and at only 300 golden cookies too.

I think I will wait until I have 100 AC's before my first reset.

I did my first reset last night after reading up on ACs and finding out it takes nearly 30 quadrillion cookies to get 100 ACs. Even with golden cookie clicks, you're better off getting the heavenly chips once you have a decent amount. I was at about 20B CpS and I was getting one or two ACs a day on average.

You are right, I decided to reset at 10 quad all time and I have gotten up really fast. I have 40 AC's already in less than 15 hours!

[CooLDoG]

is this game supposed to teach you about diminishing marginal returns?

[Brandi]

Not everything comes with an intentional life lesson
This is just about cookies

[CooLDoG]

No, I think it is.

[NabakovNabakov]

Well, increasing marginal costs, but it's really the same deal. If you wanted to, you could plot the intersection of the exponential marginal cost curves and the linear marginal production curves for each building, though this wouldn't actually tell you as much as it does in the standard theory of the firm. Because all costs are fixed costs and there's no depreciation, there's technically

no

investment that can't pay for itself over a sufficiently long time horizon, so there's no globally optimal level of production. If, however, you just picked a time horizon for which you'd be willing to play the game (one month?) and used it to calculate gross cookie production from a given building, you could lock in the ideal production setup. This is, of course, a simplified model of the game that ignores the multiplicative interaction of buildings/achievements/upgrades, the schedule of building purchases, shocks from golden cookies, and the quasi-exponential marginal production growth for late-game cursors and grandmas. Those would probably require some non-trivial numerical optimization routines to solve.

All of this is to say that the game is complicated enough to bring up lots of interesting issues in economic modeling beyond simple diminishing marginal benefits.

[Brandi]

Occam's razor

[CooLDoG]

Well, increasing marginal costs, but it's really the same deal. If you wanted to, you could plot the intersection of the exponential marginal cost curves and the linear marginal production curves for each building, though this wouldn't actually tell you as much as it does in the standard theory of the firm. Because all costs are fixed costs and there's no depreciation, there's technically

no

investment that can't pay for itself over a sufficiently long time horizon, so there's no globally optimal level of production. If, however, you just picked a time horizon for which you'd be willing to play the game (one month?) and used it to calculate gross cookie production from a given building, you could lock in the ideal production setup. This is, of course, a simplified model of the game that ignores the multiplicative interaction of buildings/achievements/upgrades, the schedule of building purchases, shocks from golden cookies, and the quasi-exponential marginal production growth for late-game cursors and grandmas. Those would probably require some non-trivial numerical optimization routines to solve.

All of this is to say that the game is complicated enough to bring up lots of interesting issues in economic modeling beyond simple diminishing marginal benefits.

yes, but after playing for 3 minuets that was the only thing that came to mind.

[NabakovNabakov]

And now none of you have the right to complain when economic models make simplifying assumptions.