Paperclip Game (Don't Play this Game)

bawbie

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My screw up. So I was making good progress, and turned hazard remediation down to 0 to see what would happen. I lost all my probes. Now I can not make up ground and stuck in the 125 septillion range because combat cost me so much per battle, I cannot make up any ground.

I'd like some advise or I may just quit, if I can't speed it up, it will take weeks at this pace.

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How do you have zero unused clips? I'm at just about the same point and have 1.28 quattuoardecillion. I don't even know how to use clips at this point.

If you turn on harvester drone and wire drone briefly, it should create a couple quadrillion drones and finish off what you have left quickly. You should only be about 10-15 minutes away from the end
 

Redman97

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7 hours and 49 minutes. Still listening to the weird future music. Had a perverse desire for the exploration percentage to slow down after 2% or so.
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boone7247

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You got to 100% space exploration in under 7 hours? I must be doing something seriously wrong. I didn't even come close to starting space exploration in 7 hours

Yeah, I don't know how I did it. I guess once I got to space I figured the only way to make this thing work was to make probes, so I just held the enter key down till I made like 20k probes, by then self-replication had taken over, and I was making so many probes I really didn't have to do anything but keep maxing out the trust, when available. I also only used one trust to move between harvester, wire, and factories, and once I didn't need anymore I just put that to speed. I also turned my combat up to like 19 so I wouldn't lose any battles. That helped a ton.
 

Cyclones_R_GR8

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Yeah, I don't know how I did it. I guess once I got to space I figured the only way to make this thing work was to make probes, so I just held the enter key down till I made like 20k probes, by then self-replication had taken over, and I was making so many probes I really didn't have to do anything but keep maxing out the trust, when available. I also only used one trust to move between harvester, wire, and factories, and once I didn't need anymore I just put that to speed. I also turned my combat up to like 19 so I wouldn't lose any battles. That helped a ton.
When I first started space exploration I just kept hitting launch probe until I was able to get some decent wire production done. Then after reading some posts here I upped the numbers on speed/exploration/replication and then it really took off. Once I got to battle mode and was able to bump up my battle numbers I just let it go. Last night when I went to bed it was at 0.000000005%
I woke up to 100%
 

boone7247

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I did, now I'm out of material and can't do the space exploration because I don't have enough clips... **** this game.

Yeah you do. Do the "feed the Drone" and other such things in that box. You need to slow the work rate though so you can get some thinking done. Need more swarm gifts, will be especially key when you get to space. Once the wire drones work through the wire. you should be good. Note you only need 250 memory. so start giving your gifts from the swarm to your processor. I had it so I was getting gift everything 30 seconds or so. I am thinking that is why it went so quick for me. I had a ton of processing power by the time I got done.
 

cdface

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Disassemble whatever is going to move you past the 5octillion you need.

Correct. You have to have the material one way or the other because you start out with 6 octillion available, and it's only 5 to get into space.

But doesn't the project for going out into space include automatically "disassembling all terrestrial facilities"?
 

MNCYWX

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I have no yomi and haven't ever had any? What is it and how do I get it?

Run the tournaments to earn yomi. Also, there should be an achievement (project) to unlock via the computer to run tournaments automatically. Make sure that's turned on. Yomi will be needed once you reach space especially.
 

Playboi Carti

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I have no yomi and haven't ever had any? What is it and how do I get it?
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Like @Cybyassociation said dismantle all your factories, solar farms etc. That should allow you to go into space exploration and start a whole new level of suffering
Nothing changed. Click on "feed the swarm" nothing happens. I don't get why I'm not making clips when I have 1.77 octillion inches of wire
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IAStubborn

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Run the tournaments to earn yomi. Also, there should be an achievement (project) to unlock via the computer to run tournaments automatically. Make sure that's turned on. Yomi will be needed once you reach space especially.
man I am not sing any tournaments
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