candid heart
I finished the Tea event in much less than 24 hours, and finished it first in my group. But for some reason the leaderboard shows 6 days and someone who finished after me is shown with 3 days. This seems obviously wrong, but if this is for whatever bizarre reason correct, it should have some rules explanation.
stoic dome
You used 4x boost and maybe nanobots. That's the entire explanation, they increase your time.
frail dove
Same for me!! I finished first, in a few hours, and today the second more advanced is.... above me 😂 so yesterday I was the first, and now 2nd. What's the explanation ?
steady hedge
I just finished in just under four hours (yes, I was using darwinium), but it gave a time of 4 days.
Is it possible that it is tracking all of the time that I have spent in this simulation combined?
I started a doubling boost when I started the simulation today. And it still has 13:43 left on it in the screen shot. This is why I am saying that my displayed time should be around 4 hours.
candid heart
You used 4x boost and maybe nanobots. That's the entire explanation, they increa...
If that's the explanation then
a) it's completely backwards -- we're competing for being the first, but we can't use any tools that make it faster? That makes zero sense.
b) It's not explained anywhere. Don't we all immediately start with a boost on every new event? It's silly not to.
c) It doesn't seem to add up. I finished the event in much less than a day, but it shows more than 6 days for me, so 4x boost wouldn't explain it, and nanobots don't do all that much.
stoic dome
a) It does make sense, if it weren't this way new players would never have a chance at first place
b) Correct, it's only explained within the bug report channel on other reports. I don't understand your next two sentences though, so I can't respond to them
c) Nanobots might be the reason, based on the limited information I have, as it seems the time increase they give is unpredictable
d) I'm not a dev. I can't give full answers, and I could be wrong, as I'm using what I remember from the minimal information given.
e) This seems completely broken right now, so it might be reworked, but again, I'm not a dev, so I don't know.
split lotus
The Nanobots counting as time spent is the only thing that makes sense in my case. I wound up with 8 days 8 hours or so, and the only thing I used was the nanobots. Didn’t 2/4x or do any double away awards. Didn’t even do the monetized (Darwinium/ad) floating gold teapots - only the totally free ones.
Unless ANY floating gold teapot also counted as a time boost.
Didn’t use time flux at all either.
Edit to clarify: did not speed up delay time to next nanobot cycle either (darwinium or ad)
steady hedge
What is the multiplier for the nanobots? Because that would tell us whether that would make sense for a time multiplier as well.
split lotus
Based on general chat and the Price of Trust event findings I’ve posted there, I’m now convinced the nanobots didn’t add to the time calculation. I’m not sure of the nanobots calculation specifically but maybe like 5x or 6x or so production. I didn’t measure exactly.
stoic dome
I measured roughly at one point and nanobots + clicking was about x10 for me, and just clicking was about x3, so nanobots were about x3
I don't know the exact calculations though
Interesting how different our results are though
hasty pelican
I imagine filling the bins and pulling the levers will not boost your time, as that seems to be the “intended route”, but I’m not a dev, either.
stoic dome
I mean, nanobots and 4x boost are the intended route just as much as the levers
still wolf
same tho
i just completed my exploration about 2 days
it shows me 97 days 15 hours 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
hasty pelican
I mean, nanobots and 4x boost are the intended route just as much as the levers
In the sense that it’s Chekhov’s Button, sure, but at its heart, all idle games are “clickers,” and the nanos and boosts are ways to subvert the “work”, in order to go faster, while spending time out of game.
If you’re tapping the screen, you are speeding up the process through “work,” and spending more time in-game. It seems like the devs want to reward “work”, and put in the levers as a fun quirky bonus for this event.
I don’t have a horse in this race. I’m just trying to justify why they might reward some things over others.