Ex­po­nen­tial Idle Guides

The­ory Sim­u­lator: How to Read Res­ults

Guide writ­ten by LE★Baldy, Snaeky, and Gaunter. Con­tri­bu­tions from An­tharion for the sim­u­lator it­self.

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

Be­fore you start #

The sim as­sumes that you have all mile­stones and ad bo­nus! If you do not have these it will give you in­cor­rect val­ues for re­spect­ive the­or­ies.

Ex­ample out­put #

The top im­age is from the web­site ver­sion and the bot­tom from the dis­cord bot or when you re­quest a png from the web­site.

Column ex­plan­a­tions #

Manual #

This refers to the \(\tau/​hour\) that you will gain from the act­ive strategy of that the­ory. This is defined as \(log(\tau\) \(gained)/​pub­lic­a­tion\) \(time\) \(in\) \(hours\). For ex­ample, if you gain 1e10 \(\tau\) over a 2 hr run then your rate for that the­ory is 5 \(\tau/​hr\). Use these val­ues to com­pare to other the­or­ies if you plan to do act­ive strategies for that fol­low­ing pub­lic­a­tion.

Auto #

This is the \(\tau/​hour\) that you will gain from the idle strategy of the the­ory. This is defined the same way as Manual. Use these val­ues to com­pare to other the­or­ies if you plan to do act­ive strategies for that fol­low­ing pub­lic­a­tion.

Ra­tio #

This is the ra­tio of the manual:auto for \(\tau\) gain (2nd column/​3rd column). For ra­tios closer to 1, you should con­sider only run­ning these the­or­ies while off­line/​idle. For ra­tios much lar­ger than 1, you should con­sider only run­ning these the­or­ies while act­ively or semi-act­ively play­ing the game and not while off­line. This is the reason why T5 is con­sidered an act­ive the­ory and T2 is con­sidered an idle the­ory.

Multi Manual #

This is the op­timal mul­ti­plier that you should pub­lish at for the given manual strategy for that single pub­lic­a­tion. The mul­ti­plier can change drastic­ally between pub­lic­a­tions based on the­ory, when vari­ables are pur­chased, and more. You may want to do mul­tiple sim­u­la­tions after each pub­lic­a­tion for some the­or­ies but is not nessesary.

Multi Auto #

This is the op­timal mul­ti­plier that you should pub­lish at for the given act­ive strategy for that single pub­lic­a­tion. The mul­ti­plier can change drastic­ally between pub­lic­a­tions based on the­ory, when vari­ables are pur­chased, and more. You may want to do mul­tiple sim­u­la­tions after each pub­lic­a­tion for some the­or­ies but is not nessesary.

Strategy Manual and Strategy Auto #

This is the op­timal strategy for act­ive or idle play­ing (for auto) of that pub­lic­a­tion. See be­low for what each part means.

• The­ory name. For ex­ample, T1, T2. The the­ory the strategy be­longs to. It will al­ways match the the­ory in that row.
• Lis­ted vari­ables. For ex­ample, C1C2C3, C4, Q1Q2. These vari­ables you auto­buy. Re­main­ing vari­ables turn off.
• Lis­ted Vari­ables with no. For ex­ample noC4C5C6, noC3C4. These vari­ables you turn off. Rest you keep on auto­buy.
• Chas­ing doub­lings. For ex­ample, T8d, T1d. Chas­ing doub­lings means to buy the non-doub­ling when e1 lower than its doub­ling pair. Doub­ling pairs ex­ample: T1’s \(q_1\) & \(q_2\). One is \(2^x\) per 1 up­grade and one is \(2^x\) every 10 up­grades.
• Just The­ory Name. For ex­ample, T2, T8. Auto­buy all vari­ables
• T5AI. For ex­ample, T5AI, T5AI4, T5AI5. This just means nor­mal act­ive strat as they are sim only strategies. There are 5 sim­u­la­tion AI’s for T5 based on buy­ing pat­terns.
• T7No­Decay. For ex­ample: T7No­Decay1, T7No­Decay2. This is just an­other sim­u­lator only strategy so just use the nor­mal manual/​auto strategy and you are fine.
• T8 At­tractor. For ex­ample, T8C, T8L, or T8. The C, L, and R rep­res­ent the three at­tract­ors and which to have on. Rare to see any­thing but T8R, but it has happened.

Vari­ables to al­ways buy

If sim says T8R34, you still buy \(c_1\) and \(c_2\). It only out­puts num­ber changes for \(c_3\), \(c_4\), and \(c_5\).

*The ex­cep­tion is dur­ing the cruise phase of the end of a pub­lic­a­tion.

**Table ex­cludes vari­ables that are bought some­times, but not al­ways such as T5 act­ive.

Time Manual and Time Auto

This is the time (in hours) it should take to pub­lish for the act­ive or idle strategy.

The sim­u­lator only runs up to 720 hours per the­ory per manual/​auto sec­tion. Any res­ults from a 720 hour sim­u­la­tion should be treated with cau­tion as they never fin­ished their pub­lic­a­tion. If you get a neg­at­ive /hour res­ult from hit­ting this 720 hour cap, this is be­cause it never got back to the pub­lic­a­tion mark to push \(\tau\) so \(ρ\) ended be­low \(\tau\).

Delta Act­ive and Delta Idle

This will tell you how much \(\tau\) you are ex­pec­ted to gain for the act­ive or idle strategy.

Delta Act­ive and Delta Idle are defined as the quant­ity \(\frac{\tau_{fi­nal}}{\tau_{ini­tial}}\) in­stead of \(\tau_{fi­nal}\) - \(\tau_{ini­tial}\). So if delta act­ive was equal to 1e3 and the start­ing \(\tau\) was e100, the sim pub­lishes at e103 \(\tau\).

You should NOT pub­lish at this \(\tau\) value since it’s very likely your start­ing \(\tau\) will be dif­fer­ent from what is ac­tu­ally used in the sim due to your in­put be­ing 1eXXXX not x.xxxeXXXX. This should not be con­fused with log(\(\tau\)).