Ex­po­nen­tial Idle Guides

ee2k to ee5k

Guide writ­ten by LE★Baldy. Con­tri­bu­tions from The Amaz­ing Com­munity.

This guide is cur­rently un­der­go­ing change. Keep in mind, strategies may change.

Table of con­tents

Auto­su­prem­acy #

Do not buy Auto­su­prem­acy un­til more than 118,840 stars. This keeps all vari­ables when you get auto­su­prem­acy. Here is the ex­pres­sion to copy: auto­su­prem­acy ex­pres­sion.

Gradu­ation rout­ing #

Re­mem­ber to fol­low our rout­ing ad­vice from In­tro­duc­tion to Gradu­ation.

2k → 3.8k or 4k
3.8k or 4k → 4.6k
4.6k → 5k

If you gradu­ate with 17 stu­dents (4.4k) by ac­ci­dent, next gradu­ation is 4.8k in­stead. For the 3.8k vs 4k de­cision you can also use the gradu­ation cal­cu­lator to find out where your phi lands at the end of your grad, but is not needed.

In­tro­duc­tion to stu­dents #

One stu­dent is at­tain­able for every ee200 max \(f(t)\) you reach start­ing with 5 at ee2000. Stu­dents are used to pur­chase phi up­grades and the­or­ies, both of which are found by cyc­ling through the new but­ton on the bot­tom of the screen. Some up­grades be­come avail­able through fur­ther pro­gres­sion of the game.

Phi (\(\varphi\)) and tau (\(\tau\)) #

Header

In the top left, we see \(\varphi\) = 1.00. This is the greek let­ter phi and is what stu­dents are used to up­grade. In the top right, we see \(\tau\) = ???. This is the let­ter tau and is grown through the­or­ies you will un­lock at ee5000.

Stu­dents row #

Students

On the left, our cur­rent avail­able stu­dents is shown by \(\sigma\) on the top. The total stu­dents we have is des­ig­nated by \(Total: 19\sigma_t\).

On the right, the amount of stu­dents gained for a gradu­ation at that mo­ment is shown by \(d\sigma\). The \(f(t)\) re­quired for the next gradu­ation is shown on the bot­tom.

Total stu­dents after a gradu­ation is equal to \(\sigma_t\) \(+\) \(d\sigma\). When a gradu­ation is avail­able, it will dis­play a mes­sage Tap to gradu­ate new stu­dents. You do not have to gradu­ate with only one stu­dent and is of­ten times bet­ter to gradu­ate for mul­tiple at a time.

Phi up­grades #

Phi Upgrades

At the top, we see the equa­tion: \(\varphi = \prod_{i}\varphi_{i}\). This is telling us \(\varphi\) value top left is equal to all the mul­ti­plic­a­tion of all the phi up­grades.

Here we see R1-7 also known as the phi up­grades. These are what de­term­ine what phi value you have in the top left. One strategy is press­ing the i and com­par­ing phi gain/​stu­dent cost. However, we have a stu­dent cal­cu­lator for phi up­dates.

When “↑ \(\varphi\) ex­po­nent by 0.1” is pur­chased, there will ap­pear an ex­po­nent in the equa­tion at the top (ex: \(\varphi_{i}^{1.1}\)) put­ting the phi value to that ex­po­nent.

The­or­ies #

Theory

These are un­locked at 20 stu­dents (ee5k). When you have enough to get The­ory 1, un­lock it im­me­di­ately.

For in­struc­tions of how to re­spec stu­dent up­grades please check back to the re­spec in­struc­tions.

The fi­nal push to ee5k #

First thing is to make sure you are ready for 5k push. You must have 18 or 19 stu­dents. If you have 17 stu­dents, gradu­ate at 4.8k for 19 stu­dents. If you have 16 or less stu­dents then gradu­ate at 4.6k for 18 stu­dents. Next is to make sure you have the ap­pro­pri­ate auto­prestige and auto­su­prem­acy equa­tion in and work­ing. If your auto­su­prem­acy is already in then leave it on and don’t enter the ex­pres­sion field to re­set it.

The fi­nal three steps are the most im­port­ant:

  1. Up­date your phi with the phi cal­cu­lator while you go and not just in the be­gin­ning.
  2. Up­date your star per­man­ent levels with the star cal­cu­lator at least once after ee4600.
  3. Men­tally pre­pare for a long push (it can take a while).

Ad­di­tional notes #

When you get to ee4995, turn off auto­prestige and just cruise un­til ee5000. Do not turn off earlier or it will be sig­ni­fic­antly slower or you won’t make it.

Never turn off auto­buy of vari­ables and up­grades. The f(t) used for gradu­ations can be found in stat­ist­ics and is cu­mu­lat­ive. In other words, it does not de­crease with pur­chases and is only speed up with them so it is in your best in­terest to con­tinue pur­chas­ing.

You can sell your auto­su­prem­acy dur­ing the 4.6k to 5k push after the fi­nal psi up­grade. This is be­cause you can use an ad­di­tional 100k stars for per­man­ent levels for vari­ables. The next psi 3 up­grade you will see at the bot­tom is only at­tain­able at ee9160+ so you will not get it for a while.