[miniGuide] Money Printer

Hi guys. I’m a new player to anti-Idle, and I’m making a small guide on the money printer for new players like myself.

A lot of newer players are bothered by how much it costs to upgrade the money printer. Here are a few facts I’ve gathered about the money printer.

The formula:

power = 320 * sqrt(level) * ((printerLevel – 1)/32 + 0.25)

power = YC per print
level = game level
printerLevel = printer’s level
sqrt means “square root”.

The printer prints every 10 seconds when it’s at 200 charge, without the perk.

Is it worth it in YC?:

From the above, one can deduce that upgrading the printer’s level by 1 will increase the power by:

powerincrease = 10 * sqrt(level)

The cost of upgrading a printer’s level from printerLevel to printerLevel + 1 is:

cost = printerLevel * printerLevel * 20,000

So the total number of prints required to make up for the cost is:

printerLevel * printerLevel * 2,000 / sqrt(level)

The time required to print once is:

time = 2000 / printerCharge

The time also seems to be lower bounded by 5 seconds.

Here’s a graph showing how much time you’d require at a few different levels from 1 to 24. This graph assumes that your battery is, on average, at 100 power. Multiply the graph accordingly to the power you believe your battery is often at (e.g. if it’s always at 200 power your required time is halved).

Is it worth it?

At lower levels, the printer’s return on investment for YC may not be as high as other sources of income. Here’s an example. The 1st extra garden plot costs you 1 mil YC, which may be less than 70 free tree harvests (70 minutes). With garden XP and plot XP this may be reduced further. The arcade and stadium quickly pay back their costs as well, if you play the games. All in all, printer upgrades are a fine choice after your garden is fairly well-upgraded and you have most of the other features.

However, don’t forget that the printer also prints GC (and BC with the perk).

Miscellanea

If you have the printer battery card, it keeps your power at around 400, which almost doubles your reward from printers (and you can idle with it too).

I did not consider the interaction between epic skills, the ascension perk, and the printer.

Thanks to ValentyneSmith for encouraging me to make this guide and Rellian for helping me with it.

Reserved to add some tips of my own. Soon as I come up with any.

Printer Perk

If you opt to buy the printer perk, you’ll get 1 blue coin for every print, and 40% more yellow coins as well. That one coin doesn’t look like much, but let’s see how much it adds up.
Assuming you’re using Battery Charger cards, you’ll be constantly getting one print every 5 seconds. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Divide that by 5, and you get 17,280 blue coins a day. The card itself costs only 6,000 blue coins. Assuming you need to buy a new card every day (some people have plenty saved up), you’d still make 11,280 blue coins /each day/, idling. All from one coin per print.

tl;dr: Printer perk + Battery Charger card = 11,280 blue coins a day.

Here’s a chart that simply lists the cost to upgrade to each printer level. As well as the total for all of them.

THEN I POSTED THIS:

But what does it MEAN?!

Gonna multi-post as to not ruin my other one’s greatness, but you could also mention that it takes about 75k-100k overcharge to go 1 day without a battery charger card or having to charge, depending on epic skill level and times proc’d.

Here is my guide to the printer:

Money for nothing, chicks for free. No chicks though.

Fin

Nice guide though i didn’t understand the math part :/

Originally posted by Robaconollitron:

Gonna multi-post as to not ruin my other one’s greatness, but you could also mention that it takes about 75k-100k overcharge to go 1 day without a battery charger card or having to charge, depending on epic skill level and times proc’d.

Little bit less than 86,400 charges for a day, unless you want to keep max speed, then it’s a little bit more, at least it uses 86,4k charges a day on max speed (this is without taking the epic skill in consideration)

Thats nice information but i think almost every newb just maxes printer ASAP without really worrying in-depth about when it pays back, since most of them probably have no idea but know it will take a long time, since printer sucks for coins compared to garden/BA

Originally posted by lackinglack1:
every newb just maxes printer ASAP without really worrying in-depth about when it pays back

Which makes it all the more impressive! Here’s a guy that took a feature that’s pretty much buy and never look at again, and made a guide like this about it. You have people that take a feature full of potential and still fail to say anything useful in their guide, and this guy does it about “nothing”.

Bravo. You’re my new favorite person. I hope you stick around, cause I know I’ll enjoy whatever you post.

You should probably mention the quests that go along with the printer, for completion’s sake.

Print coins X times
Get X Critical Prints in Money Printer

Originally posted by Aurian:

Originally posted by lackinglack1:
every newb just maxes printer ASAP without really worrying in-depth about when it pays back

Which makes it all the more impressive! Here’s a guy that took a feature that’s pretty much buy and never look at again, and made a guide like this about it. You have people that take a feature full of potential and still fail to say anything useful in their guide, and this guy does it about “nothing”.

Bravo. You’re my new favorite person. I hope you stick around, cause I know I’ll enjoy whatever you post.

Dangit. Now I feel stupid for letting Litral run with my idea.

But hey, he did it better than I would have, so props all the same.

I used to idle in printer for 2x coins, until I took an -infinity+hardcore+wm arrow to the knee.