Starvester: How to Get Infinate Research, Silicon, Star Dust and Drones

So the number one thing to know about prestige is that you need to pay attention to research. for many of the worlds when you start collecting its going to cost more for each point you harvest. in all of these cases its super important that you get all the research (particularly any quantity research BEFORE you build your first drone).

For some context to how much difference this makes I started a run where I put 29 drones (with the 300x for less then 29 drones) buff on all the worlds up to pistol star then left it to run over night. when I came back I had a couple of hundred levels of the star upgrades and like 100 Spice.

I couldn’t get anything to work because everything had huge diminishing returns and so I re-prestige and did sciences first and I got 400 spice in like 5 min.

So what you want to do is upgrade research first and focus on keeping it going as fast as possible and wherever possible get any qty gains before you start adding drones to worlds.

Like Research satellites are another area where you can hurt your run if you get ahead of your self.

There are two places you can build them the moon and Tryton’s Eye however on the second location there is some research which allows you to reduce the cost to build more satellites and you should try to get this before you build to many satellites (I build 10 only just to speed up research then no more until this is maxed out).

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS DON”T BUY ANY AT TRITON UNTIL YOU GET THAT RESEARCH.

At tryton there is no scaling once you get the full upgrade so if you do it right you should be able to buy satellites for 500K ore but if you click that a bunch of times you might need to spend millions billions or even trillions for each of them.

Get the full upgrade first.

OK so Spice and trade are our first chance to go infinite which makes a huge difference to how long things will take. If you do this right you will get infinite research which also means infinite drones later in the game.

First upgrade Aeolus (particularly count) to max then put at least 29 drones on there. just let your trades go up do not spend any you want to get like 50K trades built up which is going to take a hot minute.

While that is happening go to Cybele and get all the upgrades there and then max your drones on here because we need that sweet sweet spice.

once you get to around 400 spice and you have about 50K trades you want to buy trades just hold that button down if you do it right you should end up with around 5.00e23 trades (the e23 is the key part.

OK not go back to Aeolus and start trading you will see that just after the cost gets into the e23 range it will snap back to 0 you have gone infinite. This means you can now get infinite research, silicon and star dust. all of these are helpful but the research one is the most useful as it both gives you all the research you need for the rest of the game but also infinite drones.

You will get infinite drones because you can use research to buy research drones which you can collect with your space ship to turn into special drones which can then be converted back to normal drones allow you to get 1000 drones at a time. And just like trading when the cost of research drones goes past e18 it snaps back to 0 so once again you have gone infinite.

OK so you know the drill but once you have enough spice you can also your precious materials (i.e. gold) by getting enough ore and also your drones buy getting enough fuel

So the cause for this (I’m guessing here but its an educated guess) is that when you a buying the prices are calculated using a 64 bit int which has a max value of (9,223,372,036,854,775,807) or 9e18 when you go past that number its becoming 0 because when it tries to multiply it to get the next value it results in an error and so out output is now 0 which gets set as the new price. Because the next price is always the old price x the growth factor and because 0x anything =0 once it gets set to 0 the buy price never grows again leaving it stuck at 0 allowing you to go infinite.