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Title: Clicking, so much clicking....end the pain.
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 05, 2013, 02:58:14 am: I just can't help myself.

It seemed so innocent at first.........

I tried to leave...............................

But it always calls me back................

I just can't stop myself......................

I don't know how long it's been............

My soul has been made forfeit,.................

.........................To the cookie gods[\url]

[attachment deleted by ninja] (http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/)
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Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on September 05, 2013, 03:39:28 am: Oh come on it's just ... a strangely engaging game :P

OK, I just found my game for the day. You happy? I can feel my soul starting to drift ...
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 05, 2013, 03:58:30 am: One day just won't be enough......
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Post by: Polpolion on September 05, 2013, 11:35:35 am: Classic is better. I managed to get to 1,000,000 cps in a day in this version.
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Post by: Phantom Hoover on September 05, 2013, 11:42:28 am: optimising this is so hard
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Post by: Phantom Hoover on September 05, 2013, 12:09:43 pm: why did i never learn spreadsheets #cursedbymyownhubris
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Post by: deathfun on September 05, 2013, 12:52:58 pm: Where's Turbo when you need it

EDIT: Man, this is strangely addicting
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 06, 2013, 01:19:05 am: :yes: :yes: :yes:
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 06, 2013, 01:27:59 am: This reminds me of Candy Box (http://candies.aniwey.net/).

Gorram it, must click coooookies.
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Post by: deathfun on September 06, 2013, 02:49:54 am: 57 Upgrades
61 Achievements

Getting there

Haven't actually closed the tab for it the entire day
Seriously, I get addicted to games way too easily
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 06, 2013, 03:53:43 am: 150 time machines.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 06, 2013, 07:59:30 pm: Yesterday: This is retarded, who thought this was a good idea?
Today: Oddly satisfying. Will run in background and click casually.
Tomorrow: Goddamnit I hate you dekker.
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Post by: An4ximandros on September 06, 2013, 09:04:46 pm: Got cursor and left, hehe. The trap is that you will keep clicking. You just most, not click...

:clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickcl ickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclic kclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickc lickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick:
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 06, 2013, 10:22:33 pm: for extra fun, read "cookies" as a euphemism in those headline things at the top.
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Post by: headdie on September 07, 2013, 07:35:11 am: this should be illigal.

damn it not enough cookies in the world :hopping:
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 07, 2013, 11:01:16 am: Thank you for sharing this.

I will now spend many years plotting my revenge, which will involve some form of confection. :mad:
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 07, 2013, 06:27:09 pm: Save yourself a little bit of pain: get a macro program or something and bind left-click to mouse wheel.
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Post by: Phantom Hoover on September 07, 2013, 06:48:06 pm: you can just open a javascript console and manipulate the game that way, you know
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 07, 2013, 09:38:42 pm: this game is already pointless enough without cheating at it.
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 07, 2013, 10:04:24 pm: Quote from: Klaustrophobia on September 07, 2013, 09:38:42 pm
this game is already pointless enough without cheating at it.

I get the sneaking suspicion that the game itself is a weird psychological experiment to see if people will actually spend time on something so blatantly pointless, and to see how many of them cheat at it. I bet that everybody who 100%s it gets their name on a list somewhere.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 07, 2013, 10:56:59 pm: i had the same thought, but it doesn't take too long before it becomes self-playing and it's not really much of a time sink at all.
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Post by: TrashMan on September 08, 2013, 04:58:52 am: Meh. You guys actually find that interesting?
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Post by: deathfun on September 08, 2013, 05:01:40 am: Quote from: TrashMan on September 08, 2013, 04:58:52 am
Meh. You guys actually find that interesting?

Yes
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Post by: Phantom Hoover on September 08, 2013, 07:30:58 am: it's not 'pointless', the flavour text in the upgrades etc. is the main hook to get you playing and keep doing so
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 08, 2013, 04:39:16 pm: I think if you don't actively watch for the red cookies (and then get really lucky), it will take roughly three weeks to get everything.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 08, 2013, 08:07:59 pm: hint: grandmas will be better than everything up to portals when upgraded.

though apparently they also rebel or something, hasn't happened yet but that may **** you up if you've got a lot of them.
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 08, 2013, 08:14:16 pm: Definitely don't get more than 150 grandmas (100 might be the magic number). They'll never pay for themselves after that.
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Post by: deathfun on September 08, 2013, 08:44:33 pm: Three more portals, forty five more time machines, and thirty five more cursors till I can call it good on those achievements
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 08, 2013, 09:35:53 pm: Quote from: deathfun on September 08, 2013, 08:44:33 pm
Three more portals, forty five more time machines, and thirty five more cursors till I can call it good on those achievements

Sweet. I've got 10 portals, 35 time machines, and 40 cursors to go. Except for the hidden achievements.
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Post by: An4ximandros on September 08, 2013, 10:41:27 pm: God dang it Dekker. This game is as addicting as skydiving on Jupiter. You will own me the wrist surgery costs. :P

EDIT: DEKKER> DEKKER<> WAT U DON>
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/598/667/2e5.png)
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 09, 2013, 02:34:12 am: :shaking:

Kill them all now b42L8ii!!ii
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Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on September 09, 2013, 04:41:31 am: Quote from: BloodEagle on September 08, 2013, 08:14:16 pm
Definitely don't get more than 150 grandmas (100 might be the magic number). They'll never pay for themselves after that.
That's nice ... I already had 150 of them when I read this :P

~~Do the red cookies have any positive effects? So far I've only had production halved.~~

EDIT - nvm, just had a regular bonus.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2013, 12:10:19 pm: Quote from: BloodEagle on September 08, 2013, 08:14:16 pm
Definitely don't get more than 150 grandmas (100 might be the magic number). They'll never pay for themselves after that.

I made a spreadsheet. At my current numbers of all the things, grandmas are the 3rd fastest to break even with 150 of them. Ahead of them is time machines at 58 owned and portals at 77 owned. The cursor (at 155 owned) is only about 2x longer to break even than grandma, and everything else not mentioned is in the neighborhood of 10-15x longer at 100 owned.
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 09, 2013, 12:11:54 pm: Red cookies are more... random than the standard brown ones. Sometimes, you can get clots or ruin, and sometimes "elder frenzy" - a x666 bonus for 6 seconds.

Now, what should I do? I'm at a point where it will take almost 99 hours to earn the next cookie upgrade at the current rate, my next time machine will cost about 2 trillion, cursors no longer return investment so are only good for the achievement. The only plausible upgrade is
Spoiler:
"Elder Pact" which frightens me a bit. It's even got a note saying "this is a bad idea"
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2013, 12:27:09 pm: There are no absolute negative contributors in this game. It can just take a REALLY damn long time to see the return.

It looks like the gold cookies are always positive, and the red ones have a bit higher chance of being negative than positive. I'm pretty sure you still come out ahead by clicking all of them though.
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 09, 2013, 01:10:54 pm: Red cookies have a much higher chance of starting a cookie chain, which will net you over seven trillion cookies.

Spoiler:
Getting Elder Pact will make it to where you only get red cookies, and will give you access a new achievement (more milk for the cats); nothing bad actually happens.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2013, 01:23:31 pm: cookie chains go for a random number of clicks. unless i'm completely blind. i've had two. one went to 666,666, and the other just to 666.
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 09, 2013, 01:27:18 pm: I've gotten four chains, only one of which terminated before reaching 6,666,666,666,666 cookies.

I think the longer it goes, the less chance of it failing.
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Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 09, 2013, 01:53:43 pm: Quote from: TrashMan on September 08, 2013, 04:58:52 am
Meh. You guys actually find that interesting?

My thoughts exactly.
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 09, 2013, 01:58:15 pm: You know, if they put in updating banner advertisements, they'd be rolling in dough.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2013, 02:28:21 pm: maybe. i for one wouldn't keep going if it shoved ads in my face.
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Post by: deathfun on September 09, 2013, 02:33:44 pm: For everyone and your questions about red cookies

Here
http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Cookie

They have a wiki for this game
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Post by: BloodEagle on September 09, 2013, 05:42:45 pm: Quote from: deathfun on September 09, 2013, 02:33:44 pm
For everyone and your questions about red cookies

Here
http://cookieclicker.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Cookie

They have a wiki for this game

This is disturbing.
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 09, 2013, 08:45:33 pm: woo finally got a full chain :cool:
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Post by: An4ximandros on September 09, 2013, 09:37:42 pm: I found the perfect sound description of the cookiepocalypse.

Now I just need to make a mod that replaces the fractals with cookie and add a giant cookie that replaces the GD.

[attachment deleted by ninja]
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 10, 2013, 01:00:03 am: Quote from: An4ximandros on September 09, 2013, 09:37:42 pm
I found the perfect sound description of the cookiepocalypse.

That's pretty awesome.

Now I just need to collect 136 trillion cookies to get the last 30 cursors (to 200), and 951 trillion cookies to get the last 30 time machines (to 100). At my current pace (500 million CPS), that should only take 25 days of non-stop cookieing! That's if I don't get any more golden cookies.

Plus 300 trillion cookies to get the last three 15% cookie upgrades. Plus 77~ trillion for the golden cookie upgrade, plus whatever other upgrades unlock.

Why am I doing this to myself????
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 10, 2013, 03:02:50 am: My work here is done.
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 14, 2013, 11:04:21 pm: Cookie Monster help us all, it's updated...
Spent about 50 trillion cookies to buy 62 antimatter ~~colliders~~ condensers and increased my production from about 1.3 billion CPS to 4.3 billion CPS.
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Post by: deathfun on September 15, 2013, 01:04:20 am: I stopped playing
Had 5 cursors and 22 more TMs to go before getting the last two achievements, but meh. Lost interest
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on September 15, 2013, 01:55:00 pm: i was 12 time machines and a few hidden achievements away from being done. :ick: