Is there a good wish calculator?

[scott.bland]

I'm looking for something that I can plug relevant stats in to and it will tell me the bare minimum to put in to a wish for the lowest time.

[Hypertext Eye]

Not exactly what you're looking for, but the gear optimizer has a decent wish calculator.
https://gmiclotte.github.io/gear-optimizer/#/wishes

[scott.bland]

Thanks, but I really hate that page. It's too confusing.

[Hypertext Eye]

What's confusing about it?

[scott.bland]

I tried their augments calculator. Asked for a lot of values I didn't understand, I go to their supposed "how to" page and it just says "fill in the fields." I pretty much use it to suggest gear for harvesting ygg and things like that.

I'm sure everyone else knows all of this and thinks it's obvious, but this is something I'm really bad at.

[Hypertext Eye]

if you have specific questions, I will try to help.

[Elenoe]

you are asking the wrong question (or you may have a good question but you are asking wrongly). For the "lowest time" you want to use "the most resources you can".

Wishes however follow very simple rules, so stick to them and you will be fine:

• always use the most wish slots you can
  
• always split resources equally among wishes
  
• wishes grows with sqrt(resources) - so spending 4x resources means they will only be 2x faster
  
• wishes (and NGU and hacks) use power*cap formula, so the ratio where you spend the same XP on power as you spend on cap+bar is the best from now on.
  
• and because of that sqrt wish speed > ngu speed. So keep that in mind and never use "NGU*Wishes" in optimizer mindlessly
  
• (you really should use gear optimizer, the very first page is vital. Don't bother with the rest.)

As such spending as little as possible would be "the most efficient" way, although very slow. But it also means that if you need resources elsewhere even 1% of total makes wishes run at 1/10th of speed, so they should be ALWAYS running, even on hack/NGU runs (keep some useless wishes on "cap" for this purpose).

You will get the very good results if you divert about half of E/M to wishes and all R3. So with 4 slots, allocate 10% / 10% / 25% to each wish.

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Elenoe:

(you really should use gear optimizer, the very first page is vital. Don't bother with the rest.)

I find the hacks page is pretty useful too.

[scott.bland]

Sorry for not replying in so long, family things happened.

My goal is to not just throw all my resources into wishes. If I have 2 slots open, and I can get away with (example) 1 quadrillion / 1 quadrillion / 1 million in each and use the rest in NGU's / Time Machine, I'd like something to help me figure that out. I want to put the least amount in for the max amount of time.