Why The 7777x Platinum Boost Isn't Good Enough

[The Shadow Rose]

Thanks to this event i got it but not before i engineered a way to exchange 10 vigillion dollars for a mega buck for $5 to get me from 49 to 50 to get the boost before the next event. Now of course i got the 7777x boost and after finishing a few things on earth im now and im stuck at 4600 newspapers haha. I thought hey if i get this at least things might progress at something besides a snails pace right?

Wrong.

By the look of things the current game i abandoned for 5 months due to it not being completable it back to being not completable. It would take weeks to get to the next 100 newpapers much less anything else. I knew it would costs trillions of dollars to complete earth early on since people actually calculated it but it would seem that a 7777x boost wont do it.


Its dissapointing that ill have to wait another half year before they introduce something else that will actually let me complete earth and thats assuming they dont just abandon it to make another game.


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[Adrian]

Of course it is still unbeatable... sure, those few boosts helped a bit, but if it would have been so close to beatable before, it would not have been impossible to beat in a lifetime before (even with cheats)!

I really hope that they implement some adjustment on top of these few boosts otherwise it will just tease even more, but stay in fact unbeatable... an they have just announced that they are doing a new game... so this game might stay abandoned ...

[SuperTim]

It's good enough... to keep you busy for another month.


Which reminds me of a joke:

Q: How can you keep a fool busy for another week?
A: I will tell you next week.

[Running-Target]

wait for the next event in june to earn more megabucks and gold, i have finished the moon just now, might be able to get a few more megabucks off the moon. I am done mining Mars for megabucks.

[The Shadow Rose]

Originally posted by Running-Target:

wait for the next event in june to earn more megabucks and gold, i have finished the moon just now, might be able to get a few more megabucks off the moon. I am done mining Mars for megabucks.

But megabucks are udeless now that i maxed that plat booster lol.

Even with that multiplier i put the amount that you need to finish the earth within a reasonable amount of time at around 777,777 lol

Anything less just peters out the farther you get.

[saul_silver1337]

okay, the platinum update isn't good enough, yes. But it isn't the biggest problem. And your next "weeks" for the next 100 newspapers isn't that boring:

Achieved with:
Maxed platinum boost, 33xmultiplier, 3xflux, red suit

8. May 150 sept. angels, 4500 newspapers

10.May 450 sept. angels, 4600 newspapers

15.May 17 oct. angels, 4600 newsp...

17. May 55 oct. angels, 46...

19. May 100 oct. angels, 46...

23. May 200 oct. angels, 46...

now i just got to 4700 newspapers:

27. May, 200 oct. angels, 4700 newspapers!

The biggest problem now is the big jump for the upgrades (angels and cash)

money:
Oil 555 octogintillion -> everything 1 treoctogintillion

angels:
lemonade 2 octotrigintillion -> 1 duoquadragintillion (+25 for one investment)

As you can see, we don't need bigger platinum boosts (right now), but a better upgrade system, where you can get upgrades with a reasonable higher number and not x1000000 away!

I think when they made this game they didn't spent much time on levels this high!

[Emile]

how about this?

The Ultimate Platinum Boost: 70/77 MegaBucks = 77777.77% boost

[The Shadow Rose]

Originally posted by Arch Enemy Phenomenon Weapon:

how about this?

The Ultimate Platinum Boost: 70/77 MegaBucks = 77777.77% boost

Considering that each new level of boost is just a 10x modifier you would need at least 3 more to get near the end and i dont think that would be enough to hit the end in under a year.

[Aerius]

Originally posted by Arch Enemy Phenomenon Weapon:

how about this?

The Ultimate Platinum Boost: 70/77 MegaBucks = 77777.77% boost

I'm sure that's probably where they are going eventually. Have outrageously expensive boosts that look impressive but are not. 77,777x is only 10^1 more than 7,777x, which is basically nothing even though it looks impressive.

Expect that next time they fix Earth, no, really this time. You can spend 500 gold bars to get 777,777x! (too bad that's only 10^2 more than the existing boost).

[krishpi]

I sent a ticket because I didn't see the 7777x making any change...Also I can't restart the game because it looses all the advance of a month or two (incredible!). So you surely are right, this will take 10 years or forever. These are my stats:
- Lemons: 8200
- Newspapers: 4500
- Cars: 4700
- Pizza: 4900
- Donnuts: 5000
- Shrimps: 5250
- Hockey Team: 5750
- Movie Studio: 6250
- Bank: 7000
- Oil Company: 8000

I should wait to restart the game after I have upgraded all of them at least once, better twice... this will happen maybe next year.
Btw, I'm playing in my smartphone, I count with the x2 ad booster... so.....forever and ever

[Nimplex]

yea i also feel kind of ripped of... saved for weeks to get thes 50 megabucks... i thought "7000/ boost?? wow now it has to keep going.... but NO... seems like this 7000 boost didnt work at all... oinly the megabucks are gone but i dont see that i make 7000x more money?? so low!!!!

[krishpi]

I copy the answer to my ticket, it may has sense for somebody, for me I only expected a rain of money that never happened... LOL

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Hi there!

If you have purchased the 7777.77X bonus and you aren't able to purchase it again, I can assure you that it is working as intended. Multipliers in AdVenture Capitalist are additive and combine as you progress through the game. For that reason, things like a single x3 multiplier or x2 ad multiplier will have more of a drastic effect on your profits early on, as the scale of your investments is smaller.

However, as your profits grow, the addition of small value multipliers will have a seemingly lesser effect and won't be as noticeable, due to the additive nature of multipliers. For example:

Investment Price: 100 - add on a x 3 multiplier and it's 300 - add on another x3 and it's 600 - big difference!
Investment Price : 100 - add on x27 multiplier and it's 2700 - add on another x3 and it's 3000 - big difference to start, but minimal bump with an additional x3 added on.

While examples may vary, I hope this helps to clarify to nature of multipliers within the game! Please let me know if you need anything else.

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And I say a 7777x should be noticeable!!!

[zin]

I too got all plat on Earth and x7777.77 from tickets, currently just got 4600 newspapers. It takes about 1 minute to get 1 Novemseptuagintillion. So to go from 4600 papers to 4601(yes, +1), it would take roughly 6 hours.

I hope they make Earth beatable soon because it gets tedious to see so little progress in so long time. As of now, it's only worth checking the game once, maybe twice a week while waiting for the next event.

Though it will take three events to get enough gold to actually be able to use it at something that will speed up the game. Considering we've been trough only 9 events so far, I'm not holding my breath.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by krishpi:

I sent a ticket because I didn't see the 7777x making any change...Also I can't restart the game because it looses all the advance of a month or two (incredible!). So you surely are right, this will take 10 years or forever.

This is the sunk cost fallacy.

Most of the complaints people are making about Earth being "impossible" are fundamentally systematic errors in thinking. Think about it this way. Imagine that you have this situation:

1. You have a certain number of angels.
2. You have gathered just as many angels waiting for a restart.
3. You have been playing for a month.
4. You will reach your next goal in two weeks.

The choice you face LOOKS like this.

Choice A: Wait two weeks to reach your next goal.
Choice B: Restart and reach the goal in three weeks.

The choice you ACTUALLY face is this.

Choice A: Reach your goal in two weeks, restart, and wait three weeks to start the next.
Choice B: Restart now and reach your goal in three weeks, then start the next immediately.

So while Choice A appears to be choosing two weeks instead of three weeks, in the long run it is choosing five weeks instead of three weeks.

But most people are going to make choice A, because they are too emotionally attached to the goal they're pursuing. They will flush two more weeks down the toilet because they don't want to lose four weeks, but those four weeks are already lost. They're not even part of the decision, because you WILL need to restart, so you WILL need to throw them away - either now or later.

And throwing them away now will get you to your END goal of "completing Earth" faster.

[Matthew]

Originally posted by cdarklock:

Originally posted by krishpi:

I sent a ticket because I didn't see the 7777x making any change...Also I can't restart the game because it looses all the advance of a month or two (incredible!). So you surely are right, this will take 10 years or forever.

This is the sunk cost fallacy.

Most of the complaints people are making about Earth being "impossible" are fundamentally systematic errors in thinking. Think about it this way. Imagine that you have this situation:

1. You have a certain number of angels.
2. You have gathered just as many angels waiting for a restart.
3. You have been playing for a month.
4. You will reach your next goal in two weeks.

The choice you face LOOKS like this.

Choice A: Wait two weeks to reach your next goal.
Choice B: Restart and reach the goal in three weeks.

The choice you ACTUALLY face is this.

Choice A: Reach your goal in two weeks, restart, and wait three weeks to start the next.
Choice B: Restart now and reach your goal in three weeks, then start the next immediately.

So while Choice A appears to be choosing two weeks instead of three weeks, in the long run it is choosing five weeks instead of three weeks.

But most people are going to make choice A, because they are too emotionally attached to the goal they're pursuing. They will flush two more weeks down the toilet because they don't want to lose four weeks, but those four weeks are already lost. They're not even part of the decision, because you WILL need to restart, so you WILL need to throw them away - either now or later.

And throwing them away now will get you to your END goal of "completing Earth" faster.

That probably would help somewhat, but considering the calculations that've been done, it still would take an insane amount of years to complete Earth.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Matthew:

That probably would help somewhat, but considering the calculations that've been done, it still would take an insane amount of years to complete Earth.

Well, in my own experience...

First, I did similar calculations and realised I could never complete the game in my lifetime unless I spent a lot of money. But I didn't want to spend money, so I shrugged and said "I guess I don't get to complete it then."

Today, I get to 4,000 pizza delivery businesses in less than an hour with each restart. Then it takes me a couple days to get to 4,100. I've never gotten to 4,200. And I've played the game for well over a year, but I've still never spent money on it.

If you had told me a year ago that in a year I would have 4,000 pizza deliveries within an hour of restarting, I would have called you an idiot and showed you a bunch of math proving that was impossible and would take at least five years.

Now, it doesn't matter whether my progress was made possible by changes in the game's equations or not. No matter how you slice it, I'm making progress today that I would have called impossible last year. I don't care whether I'm making it because my math was wrong, or because the developers altered the system.

Obviously, I would rather SAY that the system was altered, because of my ego and stuff. But objectively, I can't prove that the system was altered. I can't prove my math was wrong, either. The thing is, the evidence to date suggests that you can make more progress than you think.