Prestige

Prestige is a progression system that allows for the obtainment of powerful, permanent boosts to your bock earnings (referred to as 'earnings bonus'). The mechanic is unlocked as soon as you obtain a Soul Egg from any source, including Challenges and the Daily Gift Calendar.

Prestiging restarts your farm's chicken population, common research, habitats, silos, vehicles and resets your egg to Edible. Your permit, Epic Research, the Hyperloop Station, Golden Eggs, Piggy Bank level, boosts, Mystical Eggs and owned Artifacts are all preserved. In turn, you gain a certain amount of Soul Eggs, depending on the earnings made before prestiging. Each Soul Egg costs more than the last, essentially meaning that more earnings equals more SE; see the article on obtaining Soul eggs for a more in-depth explanation.

Contents

• 1 Earnings Bonus
• 2 Preloads
  • 2.1 Standard Permit Simple Guide
  • 2.2 General Preload Guide
  • 2.3 Single Preloaded Dilithium Prestige (Dili Preload)
  • 2.4 Boost Combinations
  • 3.1 Regular Multistige Guide
  • 3.2 IHR Multistige Guide
  • 3.3 Piggystige Guide
  • 4.1 Lunarstige
  • 4.2 Drone Farming
  • 4.3 All-in-One

  Earnings Bonus [ ]

  A player's Earnings Bonus (EB) is the total impact their Soul Eggs, Eggs of Prophecy, Soul Food, and Prophecy Bonus epic research have on their ability to earn money. Prestiging is the most common way to increase a player's earnings bonus. The formula for calculating EB is as follows:

  EB = [ > 10 + 5 + 10 + 25 + ] [ > 1.05 + .01 + .0025 + .005 + .0075 / .008 + .01 / .011 / .012 + .0005 + .001 + .0015 ] >

  Equivalent formula in just text:

  Note: 'Soul Food' and 'Prophecy Bonus' are Epic Researches. Prophecy Bonus levels apply +0.01 to the original 1.05 figure for a total of 1.1 with maxed out Epic Research. Soul food will max out at 140 levels, for a total of 150 with maxed out Epic Research.

  Note 2: 'Soul Stones', 'Books of Basan', and 'Prophecy Stones' are artifacts/stones.

  A player's EB is commonly used to gauge how far along they are progression-wise, as well as if they are ready to tackle certain challenging aspects of the game, such as the Enlightenment Egg.

  Preloads [ ]

  Beyond the first 50 SE, different prestige strategies exist. However, a general rule of thumb is, if the game is slowing down and you have no goals that require staying on the current egg, then it's time to prestige.

  The percentage gain of SE compared to your total becomes lower with each prestige. There are several ways to counteract the diminishing returns, such as focusing on finishing Epic Research (especially Soul Food and Prophecy Bonus) and performing multistiges.

  Be sure to read through the list of abbreviations before looking at the more advanced strategies below.

  A common prestige strategy that is very powerful up into the hundreds of quintillions of EB is called 'single prestige preloading', 'singlestige preloading', or simply 'preloading'.

  Standard Permit Simple Guide [ ]

  This is an extremely simple guide for early game prestiges, intended to be understandable by anyone, no matter what stage they are in the game.

  1. Go to your highest value egg you have unlocked on your farm
  2. Make sure your population is high. Leave space to run chickens!
  3. Use a soul beacon and a bird feed to increase your earnings
  4. Run chickens across the screen while boosts are running
  5. Make sure to keep buying research while you are running chickens
  6. When the boosts are completely finished, hit the prestige button! Remember - always prestige before running another set of boosts.

  General Preload Guide [ ]

  1. Build up to Universe egg (or your highest egg) and buy the best habs and transport vehicles you can afford. Max all research, leaving a level of either Grav Plating or Wormhole dampening not researched (this is to allow running chickens during the boost period)
  2. Activate any artifacts with dilithium stones in them, and then activate one Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x for 10 minutes) and one Epic Boost Beacon (10x for 10 minutes). Instantly switch out your dilithium stone artifacts for your best chalice, best monocle and any other artifact filled with life stones)
  3. Close app and wait for boost period to end. This should net you 8-11B+ chickens.
  4. Once internal hatchery boosts are expired (or when your habs are full), open app and finish any remaining research and make sure transport is sufficient. Don’t finish the level of hab research until AFTER the prism is no longer active.
  5. Activate any artifacts with dilithium stones in them, activate the boost combination of your choice from the list below and then instantly switch to your best prestige setup. Use CarpetSage’s Smart Assistant to work out your best setup for single prestiges.
  6. Run chickens for the duration of the boosts. (Aim to maintain maximum running chicken bonus at all times).
  7. Prestige and start again! Again, never run multiple sets of boosts before prestiging.

  Note: Doing multiple rounds of boosts is a waste of GE. Prestige before boosting again to get the most SE gain!

  Single Preloaded Dilithium Prestige (Dili Preload) [ ]

  How to set it up?

  It’s basically the same setup as the basic single preloaded prestige. Therefore you need one of the following boost sets.

  • Most GE / Least time efficient: 1 10x Boost Beacon (10mins) for 8K and 1 1000x IHR Tachyon Prism (10mins) for 12K
  • Most time / Least GE efficient: 1 50x Boost Beacon (10mins) for 50K and 1 1000x IHR Tachyon Prism (10mins) for 12K

  Once you have the boosts ready (not activated yet), start preparing your farm by buying 10 Hyperloop trains (max capacity) and all four habs (Chicken Universe), as well as maxing all CR (common research) except WD (Wormhole Dampening) which you should keep on level 24.

  When done, you can now switch to your dilithium set and activate the above mentioned boosts. Let habs fill until full. Now that your habs are full deactivate the boosts (if they are still running) and re-equip your dilithium set to activate the following boosts:

  SE efficiency: 1 Dilithium Bulb for 1K, 1 50x Bird Feed for 2.5K , 1 500x Soul Beacon (10mins) for 10K, and 2 50x Boost Beacons for 100K.

  GE efficiency: 1 Dilithium Bulb for 1K, 2 50x Bird Feed for 5K , 1 500x Soul Beacon (10mins) for 10K, and 1 50x Boost Beacons for 50K.

  Once activated, make sure to switch to your prestige set and you’ll earn a pretty good amount of SE over the course of roughly 10-15 minutes. It’s roughly 30% less efficient than your basic single preloaded prestige but with this version you can just leave your phone running and let it do the work for you.

  Boost Combinations [ ]

  Pro Permit Preloads

  The boost shown below are all 10 minute versions of: Jimbo's Best Bird Feed, Legendary Soul Beacon, and the Legendary Boost Beacon

  The third option (+ + + + ) is extremely expensive and only gives a negligibly small increase SE over the other methods. Therefore it is not recommended for players who do not have a surplus of GE.

  Standard Permit

  The boost shown below are all 10 minute versions of: Jimbo's best bird feed, Legendary soul beacon, Legendary boost beacon

  Don't forget to watch the ad to get your video doubler activated. This will net you +16% SE alone.

  Multiple Prestige [ ]

  Multiple prestige, or multistiging, is a late game prestige strategy for high earnings bonus farmers (100Q%+). It is a strategy exclusive to Pro Permit owners. The strategy is designed for the most SE gain using the least amount of GE and time by using the same set of boosts for two or more prestige runs.

  Please note that this is only doable by those with the paid Pro Permit.

  

  This graph displays the Soul Egg percentage gain according to population, in billions:
  
  Note that this graph was created prior to the Artifacts Update, hence why the maximum population is displayed as about 11.34B (11.5B). Regardless, it is not worth equipping a gusset in almost any case.

  The recommended Artifact set for multistiges is your best versions of the Phoenix Feather, Demeters Necklace and Tungsten Ankh. The fourth item is usually a Dilithium Monocle, but becomes a Collectors Book of Basan at 93 Eggs of Prophecy, and a Fortified Book of Basan at 63. The fourth item can also be a Vial of Martian Dust, especially when hunting drones in a preload. Consider using CarpetSage’s Smart Assistant to determine the best artifact configuration for prestiging.

  Different levels of 'stiges' (examples: tristige for 3 prestiges, quadstige for 4 and octostige for 8) require different earnings bonus and boost duration increase (from either Dilithium Stones and/or the Longer Boosts event). Another multistiging tutorial (accurate as of late May 2021), designed for quadstiges, is attached below:

  A key component of multistiges is the Hold to Research Epic Research, as this allows for the rapid purchasing of research. Another key component is the Hyperloop Station, due to the amount of eggs being laid with several billion chickens. Three major multistige key components are:

  1. Setting Dilithium Stones in artifacts with preferably 2 (most epics /some legendaries ) or 3 (most legendaries ) stone slots, then activating the boosts for a longer duration.
     1. The maximum Dilithium Stone boost duration increase is 2.51817x, or a 10-minute boost becoming 25 minutes and 10.902 seconds. This requires 12 T4 Dilithium Stones slotted into four three-slot legendaries .
     2. If you want to get the most out of your boosts, this strategy can also be used during a Longer Boosts event. Simply max out your Universe farm, equip your dilithium set, farm the first “leg” of your multistige (see below), then upgrade to Enlightenment to pause the boosts. Then, on a Double Prestige event (which usually happens every weekend), prestige from Enlightenment. The boosts will resume and keep their extended time, allowing you to utilize both the Longer Boosts event and the Double Prestige event on the same set of boosts. This can allow for boosts with a base duration of 10 minutes to become up to 50 minutes and 21 seconds, greatly increasing GE efficiency and making the multistige session a lot easier.

     Regular Multistige Guide [ ]

     Setup and First prestige

     1. Build up to Universe egg, max all research, habs and transport
     2. Activate any artifacts with dilithium stones in them and then activate the boost combination. Once boosts are activated instantly switch your best multistige artifact setup. To work out your best, use the Smart Assistant.
        • All boosts are the 10 minute versions: 50x Boost Beacon, 50x Boost Beacon, 1000x IHR Tachyon Prism, 50x earnings Jimbos Bird feed, 500x Soul Beacon.
     3. Start running chickens to get multiplier up and continue until reaching your prestige point
     4. Prestige at a point that your chicken count will be the same across all prestiges during the run. For instance, a double run may be 8bn and 8bn or a quinstige (5) may be 5bn, 5bn, 5bn, 5bn, 5bn. It may take a few runs to line up your best timings. You can use this calculator to help figure out timings and populations.
     5. Build up to universe as quickly as possible. This will vary depending on EB.

     Some examples of path to Universe:

     Please note: these are suggestions, the key for multistiges is finding the best path for you

     • >> indicates jumping without any research
     • ^^ indicates purchasing 1 hab and 1 vehicle and then completing necessary research
     • $$ indicates only doing necessary research
     1. EB > 45.450Q%: Edible >> CRISPR >> Tachyon ^^ Dark Matter ^^ Universe
     2. EB > 2.106s%: Edible >> CRISPR >> Graviton $$ Prodigy $$ Universe
     3. EB < 1S%: Edible >> Tachyon ^^ Prodigy OR Nebula $$ Universe
     4. EB > 2.321S%: Edible >> Tachyon >> Dilithium ^^ Universe

     Paths > 500S%

     1. EB > 473.841S%: Edible >> Graviton ^^ Universe
     2. EB > 2.009o%: Edible >> Graviton >> Prodigy $$ Universe
     3. EB > 180o%: Edible >> Graviton $$ Universe
     4. EB > 2.321N%: Edible >> Dilithium $$ Universe
     5. EB > 7.736d%: Edible >> Prodigy $$ Universe

     Building the Universe Farm

     5. Once you're back to Universe, purchase at least 2 chicken universe habs, and at least 3 hyperloops with all 5 carriages. Max all research, then finish purchasing transport and habs. Run chickens until chicken count aligns with step 4 or boosts finish.

     6. Prestige and follow step 4 again or if boosts are finished, Prestige and begin again.

     Alternate Boost Combination

     Worried about GE to SE efficiency? Well then, try utilising the below boost combo. The SE yield will be reduced however the GE cost is significantly less. Follow the same steps above just activate the below boost combo instead.

     50x Boost Beacon, 1000x IHR Prism, 500x Soul Beacon, 50x Bird Feed, 50x Bird Feed.

     IHR Multistige Guide [ ]

     Credit to discord user @mennoo (146707232225099776) on the Main Egg, Inc. discord server. Original post can be found here.

     1. Assumptions / prerequisites:
        • You already multiprestige, you know at what population you finish research and at what population you normal prestige
        • You have a good to very good internal hatchery rate (IHR) artifact set. Personally I advise at least T4C monocle/T4E chalice with T4 life stones/6 additional T4 life stones. The better your set, the more effective this strategy becomes
        • This strategy has not been tested at the lower side of multi-EBs (exa-zetta). If you struggle with buying enough research on build up eggs without your prestige set, this strategy might be less effective. Also, being able to skip buying habs or vehicles on build up eggs helps
        • You're a fast clicker.

     Calculations before the run:

     First, calculate your IHR multiplier from your IHR set. Example: T4C monocle, T4E chalice, 8 T4 life stones gives a multiplier of 1.2 * 1.35 * 1.04^8 = 2.217. Then, take the population you normally finish research at on universe, and multiply it by the IHR multiplier minus 1. Example: if you finish research at 900m chickens, multiply by 2.217-1: 900 * (2.217-1) = 1095. Rounding up for simplicity, this is 1.1b extra chickens. This means all your legs except the first one need to be 1.1b chickens longer than they are usually. Example: if you normally prestige at 3.8b, you now prestige at 4.9b.

     As usual, make sure you are on universe with maxed research. Make sure you have your IHR set and prestige set saved under artifact sets, preferably in the ones you don't have to scroll for. Equip your dilithium set, start your boosts, equip your prestige set, and off we go

     The legs themselves

     Prestige at the population you calculated above (unless it's the first leg, then prestige at your "old" normal population). While the chickens are running to the hab on your first build up egg (doesn't matter what it is), equip your IHR set.

     Side note: the theoretically best thing to do in terms of switching to IHR set is to go to enlightenment after every leg and switch there. However, it will obviously make your prestige sets take longer, thus making your multis less time efficient.

     Then, do any non-universe egg build up as normal. When you reach universe, you do the following:

     • Buy two habs (you might be able to get away with one still, but it's very stressful and buying two is very fast with MAX button)
     • Finish all research
     • Buy just enough shipping for this moment using the MAX buttons
     • Equip your prestige set using the set activation. (This and the previous step can also be swapped, it's really no difference)
     • Buy more shipping and habs as necessary.Note that it is NOT worth it to buy shipping before doing research because any gains before you equip your prestige set are meaningless anyway Thanks to @staabmia for suggesting to equip the IHR set while running initial chickens on build up egg rather than at the end of universe
     • Use 2 or 3 fingers to swipe on the farm to get to the hall of artifacts faster
     • Double click x button on menu's to close them faster
     • How to place your farm so you can reach hab/shipping/artifact hall without moving by @DanCB7 here.
     • How to swap to IHR set while blind jumping by @DanCB7 here.
     • Both the above links require one to join the main discord server

     Piggystige Guide [ ]

     Original strategy by @dunaril (533234669223936000) here, in the Main Egg, Inc Discord Server. Simplified version used for the sake of conciseness can be found in the Cluckingham Palace coop discord server, by @yami.rl (274484653702774784)

     Who is this method for?

     This method is especially for those who have enough boosts and/or GE

     It is VERY expensive! Do not attempt this below 100M GE or a stacked boost arsenal (1,000 boosts+) else you won’t be able to maintain it for long.

     You will spend upwards to 600K GE worth of boosts each multi!

     What boosts do I need?

     For a piggystige with 12 legs/prestiges you need:

     • 3x Legendary Boost Beacons (50x for 10mins)
     • 12x 50x Bird Feeds
     • 12x 500x Soul Beacons
     • 24x 1000x IHR Tachyon Prisms (10min version).

     Start from any egg (infinistiges)

     1. Start by switching to your dilithium set
     2. Activate: 3x 50x boost beacon and 2x legendary tachyon prisms
     3. Switch to your IHR set
     4. Complete all CR needed to jump to Uni
     5. After jumping to Uni make sure to buy all four habs!
     6. Ignore hyperloops for now
     7. Max all CR
     8. Start RCB (run chickens) and maintain until prestige
     9. Quickly buy 9 hyperloops
     10. Either cancel both tachyons ASAP or switch to prestige set — if you are at risk of hablocking you need to cancel out tachyons first!
     11. Try to cancel at at least 10B population or even better at 10.5-11B but do not waste too much time by waiting. (3-5 sec max).
     12. After switching to prestige set quickly activate: 1x 50x birdfeed and 1x 500x soul beacon
     13. Keep RCB until you prestige at anywhere between 09:20-09:30 remaining boost time on soul beacon
     14. Prestige
     15. Ghost jump
     16. Switch to IHR set
     17. Cancel Soul Beacon and Bird Feed
     18. Repeat 🔁

     Start from preloaded Universe

     1. Start by switching to your dili-set
     2. Activate: 3x 50x boost beacon 1x 50x birdfeed and 1x 500x soul beacon
     3. Switch to prestige set
     4. RCB until you prestige at anywhere between 09:20-09:30 remaining boost time on soul beacon
     5. Prestige
     6. Ghost jump
     7. Switch to your IHR set
     8. Cancel 50x birdfeed and soul beacon
     9. Complete all CR needed to jump to Uni
     10. Activate: 2x legendary tachyon prism
     11. Buy all four habs!
     12. Ignore hyperloops for now
     13. Max all CR
     14. Start RCB (run chickens) and maintain until prestige
     15. Quickly buy 9 hyperloops
     16. Either cancel both tachyons ASAP or switch to prestige set — if you are at risk of hablocking you need to cancel out tachyons first!
     17. Try to cancel at at least 10B population or even better at 10.5-11B but do not waste too much time by waiting. (3-5 sec max)
     18. After switching to prestige set quickly activate: 1x 50x birdfeed and 1x 500x soul beacon
     19. Keep RCB until you prestige at anywhere between 09:20-09:30 remaining boost time on soul beacon
     20. Prestige
     21. Repeat 🔁

     .

     How much more SE/Time efficient is this compared to other methods?

     You can expect to gain 20%+ more SE each multi compared to IHR prestiges. If you time everything just right you can get even more.

     How many legs/prestiges each multi should I do?

     Anything between 8-12 legs. The amount of legs you can do, depends heavily on your artifacts (especially IHR set) and consistency as well as timing.

     Advanced techniques to save time

     • While ghost jumping from Uni to dili or your specific egg, switch to IHR set during the blackscreen whilst making sure that you run a couple chickens
     • While jumping to Uni you can activate both legendary tachyon prism >" width="16" height="16" /> while blackscreen. Again make sure to run a couple chickens by tapping the red button
     • Whenever possible switch to prestige set first before deactivating both legendary tachyon prism >" width="16" height="16" />
     • Make sure to start RCB the moment you finish CR on Uni (or while purchasing the last ~100 levels of matter reconfiguration), and maintain until you prestige

     A more detailed post, as well as lengthy analysis can be found in this post on the main discord server.

     Other miscellaneous strategies [ ]

     Lunarstige [ ]

     A lunarstige is one of the easiest and laziest prestige strategies. With the recent addition of the legendary T4 lunar totem, this strategy has become viable and has comparable gains to other strategies such as dilistiges. The strategy involves being offline for the majority of the run and is great for those who are on the move.

     Firstly, you should max out all common research and equip your dilithium set before activating boosts. These boosts are 1 1000x 10mins tachyon prism, 2 50x 10mins boost beacons, 1 50x 10mins bird feed, and 1 500x 10mins soul beacon. This equates to 124500 GE per lunarstige, or just under 100000 GE if you buy 5 boosts at a time. After these steps have been completed, all you need to do is equip an artifact set focussed around away earnings/se gain.

     This set should consist of your best lunar totem (strongly recommended to have AT LEAST T4R before starting) equipped with as many lunar stones as possible. Additionally, you should have your best feather, again with as many T4 lunar stones as possible, as well as a legendary necklace, with lunar stones slotted. The 4th slot is subject to change depending on your PE count and available artifacts (Note that you should try and decide whether lunarstiges are good for you AFTER looking at Artifact Sandbox and maximising the "Away SE Gain" stat. If you have the time and effort to multistige it is also recommended to continue doing that to maximise SE Gain). For the 4th slot, until around 115 PE, a T4L ankh with lunar stones is better than a T4L BoB with lunar stones as well. For a T4C, you need around 190 PE, and for a T4E Book of Basan, you need around 160 PE. You can use CarpetSage's smart assistant to help you with deciding which artifacts is best using this link, although it is still in beta and only works if you use this specific link.

     You must then just stay offline until the boosts have completed, and click prestige. This strategy has all the perks of the Dilistige while only taking around half the time, making it a great choice for those with busy schedules.

     Lunar multistiges are an alternative strategy where you follow all normal multistige rules but go offline for the majority of your time on universe, typically prestiging after 2-3 minutes on Universe. There are a few different viable boost combinations, but the main ones are 2 50x boost beacons, 1 50x bird feed, 1 500x soul beacon and 1 1000x tachyon prism, along with the more expensive 3 50x boost beacons and swapping between 1 50x bird feed with 1 500x soul beacon and 2 1000x tachyon prism.

     Boosts: 2 50x boost beacons, 1 50x bird feed, 1 500x soul beacon, 1 1000x tachyon boosts.

     

     Strategy: For the first leg, you would do the same as you would in a normal lunarstige (aka max common research and habs before activating boosts/artifacts and going offline) except instead of staying offline until your boosts end, you prestige as close to one minute after going offline as possible. You must not reopen the game until that minute is up, or you will not get the benefit of internal hatchery calm or your lunar artifacts and stones, resulting in much smaller gains. After reopening the game, prestige immediately, starting the second leg, and get back to Universe as quickly as possible. You will then buy all common research, max habs and buy at least 10 maxed hyperloop trains, ending with around 2.5 billion chickens, before going offline for another minute, ending the second leg. The second leg shall then be repeated as many times as you can within your boost timers, although you should try and maximise your SE gain by determining how long you should spend offline. With a ten minute boost set, this will net you slightly over 220% what a normal lunarstige would produce, while with a maxed out boost set (1510 seconds), you should receive slightly over 410% what a normal AIO would get you.

     Boosts: 3 50x boost beacons, switching between 1 50 x Bird Feed with 1 500x soul beacon and 2 1000x tachyon boosts each leg.

     Total cost: 174500 + 36500 * (No. of legs - 1)

     For the first leg, you should do the same process as mentioned in Option 1. After you have spent 1 minute offline and prestiged, to start the second leg you should switch your 50x bird feed to a 50x boost beacon and your 500x soul beacon to a 1000x tachyon prism. Then, get back to the Universe egg. Complete all common research, max habs and buy at least ten fully maxed hyperloop stations, leaving you with around 7.5 billion chickens. Once this has been completed, switch your tachyon prisms for 1 50x bird feed and 1 500x soul beacon before going offline for at least 1 minute again before reopening the game and prestiging. This is the end of the second leg.

     You should repeat the second leg for all of your remaining legs, aiming for another 2 if you have a 10 minute boost set on or another 7 if you have a maxed-out dilithium stone set. With a ten minute boost set, this will net you slightly more than 260% what a normal lunarstige would get you. With the maximum boost set, this will give you around 500% what a normal lunarstige would give you, or around 430% if you only managed to do eight legs. This option will give you approximately 20% more soul eggs than option 1, although it is much more expensive, costing 446500 golden eggs for one maxed out multilunarstige.

     Note that you should be able to do at least a tristige before attempting a multilunarstige, and that the difference between multilunarstiges and normal multistiges is currently unknown.

     Drone Farming [ ]

     Drone farming is where you first preload your habs, then run chickens with a certain boost combination to maximise drone bock rewards. This strategy yields approximately double the SE, but at a greater cost. It can also be used during a Generous Drones event, and then prestige during a Prestige Event for even more SE. Although this strategy can be used by owners of either permit, it is more commonly used by Standard Permit players due to being unable to use All-in-Ones or multistiges.

     For those with the Standard Permit, the boost combination is:

     • 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SE for 10 minutes)
     • 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

     Undiscounted cost: 60,000 GE
     Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 48,000 GE

     The recommended Artifacts for the Standard Permit are your best versions of the Phoenix Feather and an Aurelian Brooch. Having a Dilithium Stone-boosted boost duration (see the Multiple Prestige section's multistige strategies pertaining to Dilithium Stones) also helps negate the low frequency of elite drones and the base 3:7 GE:bock ratio for drones, especially due to the limited Artifact slots.

     Additionally, slot as many Terra Stones as possible. This is due to Terra Stones increasing your maximum running chicken bonus (RCB), increasing your farm value (assuming the Epic Clucking ER has been purchased) and, because drone rewards are based on farm value, they'll become more valuable, thus yielding more SE.

     The Standard Permit version of the drone strategy is more ideal for high earnings bonus farmers (S% range or higher) due to the increase in farm value compared to lower earnings bonus farmers.

     As for boost combinations with the Pro Permit, there are three:
     GE efficiency:

     • 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
     • 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SE for 10 minutes)
     • 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

     Undiscounted cost: 75,000 GE
     Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 60,000 GE

     GE/SE efficiency:

     • 1x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
     • 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SE for 10 minutes)
     • 2x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

     Undiscounted cost: 122,500 GE
     Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 98,000 GE

     SE efficiency:

     • 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SE for 10 minutes)
     • 3x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

     Undiscounted cost: 170,000 GE
     Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 136,000 GE

     The recommended Artifact set for the Pro Permit is your best version of the Phoenix Feather, Mercury's Lens, Neodymium Medallion and an Aurelian Brooch. Additionally, follow the same Standard Permit guideline for both Dilithium Stones, to gain additional time to hunt elite drones, and Terra Stones, for increased SE gains.

     All-in-One [ ]

     before your habs are full.

     • 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
     • 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SE for 10 minutes)
     • 1x Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 10 minutes)
     • 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

     Undiscounted cost: 77,000 GE
     Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 61,600 GE

     Due to the number of boost slots needed, AiOs are only doable for Pro Permit owners.

     This strategy is also a good choice for those learning to multistige, due to using the same set of boosts for a prestige. When you reach an earnings bonus of approximately 100Q%, consider trying a duostige; see the Multiple Prestige section for more detail.

     Multistiging Optimisation Theory [ ]

     Writeup originally from Discord handle @_mk.ii_ on https://multistige.netlify.app/. Copied here for the sake of clarity on the optimisation of multiple prestige runs. This section is purely for informative purposes, see the Related Links section for multistige calculators.

     Let total boost time be T. Multistige earning curve is very complex, but let’s take a very simplistic model and assume that during each leg, population growth and earning per unit pop are zero until turned on at time τ , at which point both are constant at full potential. The τ point would be somewhere between getting to universe and finishing IHR researches, and finishing all earning-related researches. With this model, assume that during the i-th leg, we stay on the universe farm for time t i ​ after the turn-on point, SE earned from this leg would be ( t i 2 ) 0.21 = t i 0.42 ^)^=t_^> times some constant that doesn't matter for optimisation.

     So we end up with the following optimisation problem: find the number of legs n and < t i >\>> to maximise S = ∑ i = 1 n t i 0.42 ^t_^> , given the constraint ∑ i = 1 n ( τ + t i ) = T + τ ^(\tau +t_)=T+\tau > . The extra τ comes from the fact that during the first leg, the buildup process doesn't need to be boosted.

     For a fixed n, using Lagrange multiplier we can easily [1] determine that the only maximum is achieved at t 1 = ⋯ = t n =\cdots =t_> , so we have further simplified the optimisation problem to S ( n ) = n × ( T + τ n − τ ) 0.42 >-\tau \right)^> with the constraint T + τ n > τ >>\tau > . We can thus easily [1] show that

     × × × d S d n = 0 ⟺ ( T + τ n − τ ) + 0.42 n ( − T + τ n 2 ) = 0 ⟺ 0.58 × T + τ n = τ ⟺ n = 0.58 × ( T + τ ) τ &<\phantom <\times \times \times >> <\operatorname \!S \over \operatorname \!n>=0\\&\Longleftrightarrow \left(>-\tau \right)+0.42n\left(->>\right)=0\\&\Longleftrightarrow 0.58\times >=\tau \\&\Longleftrightarrow n=>\end>>

     So the optimal number of legs is roughly ⌊ 0.58 × ( T + τ ) τ ⌉ >\right\rceil >

     Trivia [ ]

     • The Standard Permit version of the drone strategy was created by @gruttan (469185182172446740) in the main Discord server.
     • The unclaimed Soul Eggs multiplier displayed on the prestige screen was added in Version 1.22.3.
     • The little ⓘ on the prestige screen was added in update 1.27.6

     Related Links [ ]

     • https://inicio-multi.netlify.app/ (updated to account for IHR-stige and Piggystige)
     • https://hashtru.netlify.app/multistige/
     • https://lunarstige--wasmegg-carpet.netlify.app/smart-assistant (For Lunarstiges specifically)
     • https://wasmegg-carpet.netlify.app/smart-assistant (For all other prestige strategies)
     1. ↑ 1.01.1 MK2 is very smart. For most people this is not 'easy'