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# Saving 
Now we all know that autosaving is an important thing in games, however from my experiences on Kongregate and even other websites, autosaving is never permanent. There will always be times when either you accidentally clear cache, need a new pc, UNITY updates and removes saves, etc that just make it so your saves are deleted. I have experienced this multiple times while I tried to play the Arkandian series. However, this is a fix to this, and other games as well.
**Export/Import** 
By far the most important saving mechanism in most games. This type of saving gives you a code placed in a notepad, you can easily save this in a folder you might title Kongregate saves. The reason this is amazing is because even if you lose your save on a game, you can go to your files and get back your save. Better yet, you can have multiple backup saves as well!
**Cloud** 
This is a new and amazing save. I don't remember exactly what this save does, but I believe it is connected to your account. This save, if account connected, could then survive your PC from breaking, etc. This means that it must always be around no matter what. However, you can only have 1 of these saves, and if there is any chance that it might mess up code, then you are done for (unless if you exported ur importation.
##### How to save games without in-game saving
http://www.Kongregate.com/forums/7/topics/241772?page=1#posts-5207531
# Something not on here?
If there is something you are looking for, and it's not here or related to the other guides linked in this guide, then they must be things that I thought were self explanatory, or they **Have a TOOLTIP that EXPLAINS what it is and does**
**Tooltips:** 
They are good, they are your pals, and they give you information about things if you hover your mouse over them.
# Table of Contents
This is to just show the main ideas of the guide quickly, I added this after saving, tooltips, etc due to those being very important.
* **Resources:** Currency of game
* **What affects SR:** Optimization of a resource
* **WC - Wave Compression:** How to get through the game quicker
* **Headquarters HQ:** Main portion of early game
* **My game is lagging / laggy! >:O**
* **Bonus & rewards tab:**
* **Reflect:** A mechanic of the enemies
* **Targeting:** How your tower fights
* **Enemies:**
* **Defense:** When to use defense
* **Running in the background:** More optimization
* **New Bounds:** Mid game skill, useful
* **Game modes:** Ways to play the game
* **Cubos:** End boss
* **Missions:** Another game mode but more detail
* **Info and statistics building:** More details on a building
* **Interest:** A certain utility upgrade
* **Factory:** Details on a building
* **Workshop:** Details on a building
* **Laboratory:** Details on a building
* **Temple:** Sort of end game building
* **Town Upgrading/Tiering:** End game stuff
* **Miscellaneous:** Figure it out kiddo
# Resources 
**Wow this section seems useless**
hey I'm just trying to explain how/where you get certain resources, and what they are used for, some peeps need to know this.
**Whites:**
No, not Caucasians, the white resources are your first resources. You can get them from killing enemies, or passing waves. When you die, you lose all your white resources, and they can only be obtained in a run. There are utility upgrades that increase how much a wave transition gives, and how much enemy kills drop whites, they are called resource bonus and /wave. The last thing to affect whites is interest, but I explain what interest is later in the guide. Basically, these resources are used to buy upgrades in a run.
**Oranges or Special resources or SR:**
This is the heart and gold of the game, the main resource. I talk about this later in the guide, but the ways you get SR are from factory, special enemy kills, and certain waves in runs. SR stays with you after a run. The reason SR is so important is that it is used to buy every other resource (besides whites), which is their main use. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Red:**
Red resources are used mainly for factory. You can get reds from factory or converting from oranges. Reds can be used to make your factory produce resources faster. Reds are also used to tier up your factory. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Green:**
Now these are a bit more pricy, as they require more oranges to get a green. Greens are like reds, gained from factory or conversion, and are used on the lab instead of the factory. Greens are used for research that is beyond the initial research level. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Blue:**
Blue resources are also very useful. Sure, they are only useful in Cubos fights and workshop, but throughout your life in TPT, you use blues a lot. The blues are gained from conversions from orange, and factory, and they are used on the workshop. Yes, their only real use is to upgrade your blueprint, but that's very important in this game. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Blacks:**
No, not African or African American... Blacks are used for the stats page, and can ONLY be gained by conversion. Factory isn't helping you out here. Blacks are one of the priciest resources, and rightfully so. You only really need 200 or less blacks, and they would be placed in the available slots in your stats page. What the black resources do is increase your special resource gain. They are NOT used in Cubos fights.
**Purples or ultimate resources:**
They aren't THAT ultimate to be honest. You can convert all but white and gem resources to purples. Purples can be gained from factory as well. Purples are used for the headquarters, or HQ. I explain what they are used for in the headquarters section of this guide, but the way to get them is either by converting resources to purples, or the factory. Yes, while you do get purples from tiering up your HQ, that is only because HQ tiering automatically converts ALL your oranges and blues to purples. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Blue gems:**
These are a bit more special. They are like whites, in that they can be used to buy upgrades while in a run. The ways to get gems are either certain waves in a run (the game description has the numbers), factory (if you town tiered and got that upgrade), upgrades from utility page for gems, watching an ad gives 50 of them, and the temple can convert rare gems to get regular gems. The uses, besides upgrades in a run, for gems, are the first research levels, research speed, and factory resources/interval. They are not used in Cubos fights. Missions also reward you this resource.
**Rare gems:**
These are the purple GEMS, not to be confused with purple cube resources. The rare gems can only be gained in the temple by fusing regular gems and purple resources. The rare gems are used for temple upgrades only.
# What affects SR (Special resource income) 
Temple upgrades, enemy tier AND waves (as in, waves in an enemy tier, the HP was actually false since 0% newbounds 3,200 is the same as 100% newbounds 3,200 where the enemies are the same tier, but different wave number inside that tier), wave number (total waves in the run itself), WPM, game speed, if the game is in the background or not, utility upgrades, town tier boosts, stats and info page's achievements AND black cubes spent, watching ads, HQ SR factor, factory SR interval thing.
**Why is my SR going low all of a sudden?**
It's probably due to enemies tiering up, for while you get more SR from enemy tiers, when they are freshly tiered, they have less tier waves, and therefore less SR at that point. Not to mention that when an enemy tiers up they are slow and don't reach the tower as quickly, so that would also be why you get less SR/s randomly.
# WC - Wave Compression 
**What does it do?**
Well, it takes however many waves, condenses it into one singular enemy boss, and it increases the health and damage of said boss to make up for the lost waves. The way it works is that when you skip a wave, compress changes how many waves are skipped. No matter what number you set your autoskip to, auto skip will still skip a certain amount of waves depending on WC. This means WC 1 will take the wave ahead of you, and condense it into 1 boss, so you will usually skip to ever other wave, as in you go from wave 1, to wave 3, to wave 5. With WC 2, you take the next two waves, and condense them into 1 boss, so you would go from wave 1 to wave 4, then you would get to wave 7 etc.
**Why do it?**
This makes the game faster, if you can handle it. Normally, a wave might be 30 enemies or so, but if you turn that into 1 enemy, then you can skip a lot more waves by fighting 1 cube per wave instead of 30 cubes per wave, and fight 30 of these wave cubes at once. This means you get more oranges and more waves done faster
**Rewards?**
The waves still factor in interest and oranges as if you actually went through the waves normally. This means you can get a lot more resources in less time spent. Same with gems as well, which is very good. Also, the chances from the utility chance upgrades also upgrade on every wave skipped as well.
**Why do people say less is better?** 
What they actually mean is a certain WC level is better than the current max level, which is 10 right now. The reason is simple, as said earlier compress skips a certain amount of waves when autoskipping or manually skipping. This means that WC 9 (which skips 10 waves in slider form) is better than WC 10, for it skips 9 waves, and if you are on a boss wave and start auto skip, you will skip 9 waves and end up on the 10th wave, which is another boss. Same with WC 4 (which skips 5 waves in slider form), except that every OTHER skip is a boss wave, making it slightly better than WC 7, which is 8 on the slider. Put another way, WC 9 will have you continously on boss waves if you start from the proper wave, whereas WC10 skils over the boss wave most of the time, filling the arena with waves that require multiple enemies, instead of the boss wave which requires 1 enemy to kill.
**How is that better?**
If you only fight bosses, then you don't have to worry about small units. This means if you set autoskip to 50, that's skipping 50 bosses, not 2 waves for a few enemies. Of course the bosses will be over powered now, but if you can deal with them, then you will shred through waves as if it was nothing.
**Pros**
* Cut through waves better
* Less enemies to fight
* Get resources faster, including gems
* Battlefield looks cool if you get the magical boss only thing going
**Cons**
* Bosses are stronger and might kill you easily
* Might be too amazing to watch
* Costs a bit to research
# Headquarters (HQ)
This is a BIG part of the game, pretty much everything revolves around this building.
**Purpose**
There are three main functions that the HQ performs.
* Give purple blocks
* Unlocks ultimate upgrades
* Unlocks more game content
**Purple blocks** 
These resources are quite important for they help you buy SR factor, Research speed, Mission reward bonus, and Auto skip penalty reduction.
SR factor, or special resource factor, multiplies your orange cube gain, which is very helpful in this game. (That 64 clicks a second though).
Research speed multiplies the research speed you have in the laboratory, which is VERY good, for it lets you research even faster.
Mission reward bonus amplifies all the rewards you can gain from missions.
Auto skip penalty basically reduces the amount of oranges you gain from killing enemies; it does not affect anything else. There is a limit on how much you can upgrade this, because you can get the penalty to 0%, meaning you lose nothing if the game auto restarts.
**Ultimate Upgrades** 
These upgrades are very powerful compared to normal upgrades, they can be very helpful depending on where you are in the game, and of course, some upgrades are more important than others. Every tier up in HQ unlocks 3 more ultimate upgrades.
**Unlocking more game content**
Now there have been things added since I maxed HQ, so I won't be able to 100% guarantee all the unlocks, ~~but I do know the most important upgrade ever, Wave Compression, is unlocked at T1 HQ.~~ I was wrong, that upgrade is unlocked at start. Also, by unlocked I mean the ability to research it. The developers might have had it behind an HQ tier 1 constraint when they first released it, not sure.
*HQ T:1*
* Multiple blueprints and naming blueprints
* **Offense:** Execution stuff and damage vs normal/special/boss
* **Defense:** Unbreakable, enfeeble stuff, fortify stuff, and absolute resistance bonus
* Convert cubes to purple cubes
* Use purple cubes to buy upgrades to the game
* Wave Compression
* Insane difficulty
*HQ T:2*
* Factory produces purple blocks
*HQ T:3*
* Challenge mode
*HQ T:4*
* Factory tiers
* Missions
* Sandbox (I think)
*HQ T:5*
* Blueprint tiers
* Cubos fights
* Start at certain waves
**Tiering**
By now you should know what the maximum tier is, but if you didn't, it's T5.
For every tier, HQ will tell you what you need to do to finish your tier. Please note that the blueprint points will NOT be enough to help you reach the designated wave.
Every time you tier up, you will convert all your blue points and orange points into purple points, meaning your blueprint will reset and you will have to start from square 1. Also, your waves in difficulties are reset as well. I recommend around 25% of your resources should go into factory before HQ tiering, so you can get a boos when you do tier up, but you also want your resources to get the boosts from HQ itself as well.
**Extra info**
For T4, you used to have to need 1,500 waves in insane, but it was lowered to just 1,200 waves.
# How to deal with lag
So you tried to play this game, but you can't. The game is far too laggy for you to do anything? If so, don't leave yet, you can try these methods.
First up are the **Common sense** tricks, such as LOWERING the graphics and turning off damage text (stop the missiles from showing text of how much damage you did). This should help out a LOT! Also, if you didn't already try this, then I retract my last statement, you should probably actually leave this game. Also, don't run some TRIPLE A game and be mad that this game is slow while doing that...
**Cut down on your blueprint**
Remember, adding more upgrades means your computer and game have to do more calculations, so only get the upgrades that you feel are necessary (If you hover your mouse over something in game, it will most likely show a popup, this is a tooltip to explain things to you, USE IT).
**Change web browser**
Sometimes web browsers change, such as their updates etc. Not to mention browsers behave differently. Firefox works best for me, but chrome might be better for others (one person actually said chrome was better in chat once). Who knows, maybe opera is best? Someone say N E T S C A P E ? ! ? !
**Keep this game tab in front** 
For some reason, when you have a window open and multiple tabs, the tabs that aren't in front will go slower, so if your game is a passive tab then it will be slow.
~~**DON'T DO THIS**~~
~~Turning off GFX. Why? The reason is simple, Moron and I, and some other players all started having web GL crash on us whenever we turned web gl off, but we have no issues otherwise. Turning off GFX was just a quick fix by the devs to show that the graphics aren't an issue at a point, so this means that it will have bugs.~~
Actually, the devs fixed GFX, so turning GFX doesn’t brick your game anymore. In fact, I noticed a small yet positive increase in WPM over night from GFX off on a new refreshed Firefox.
**WPM non concerns**
There are some things that affect WPM that are not an issue. Such as,
Game Speed – Since in game, the WPM is calculated at base speed, then running at higher multiplies means your actual WPM is the WPM multiplied by the multiple. As in, 200 WPM at X1 speed is 200(200 * 1) WPM, whereas 100 WPM at X16 speed is 1,600(100 * 16) WPM. This means a lower WPM at a higher speed multiplier can actually be good.
Furthermore,
Difficulty – There are most likely less calculations, and also the fact that enemies don’t tier up as much (Newbounds trick basics here folks), resulting in higher WPM at easier difficulties. Of course, running weaker difficulties at end game is only good for leaderboard.
# Bonus & rewards tab 
This is a tab you can find while you are in a run. Doing certain things gives you gem rewards
**Watch a short video!**
This will give you an ad to watch, and with adblocker on it should still work depending on the ad. Sometimes it shows a video that doesn't work, even with adblocker off.
What the video does is it gives you 50 gems each time you finish a video, and it also lets you get double the SR while in a run. I doubt it doubles factory SR, pretty sure it just doubles what enemies drop in terms of special resources. The way you can tell if you have the boost or not is by looking in the top left corner of your screen. If the orange block has a green plus on it, then that mean you get double SR.
When you start the video, it pauses your game, so you have to get back to speed by clicking the speed tabs in the top right corner.
**Secret Codes:**
There is the standard secret code, which is mytower42. This code gives 2 rare gems that you can use in the temple. Also, perfecttower2 is another code.
There are events that spawn a lot of codes with different prizes. Such as the thanksgiving event with expired codes now, halloween etc. These event codes can be used by everyone.
There are other one time use codes, they have some website show the names of the players that got the Pokémon codes, I think there is 1 code left idk. Not sure what rewards these give since I was never able to get a code.
# Reflect
So some enemies in the game, I believe only in insane mode, are able to reflect your attacks back at you.
**Does that make defense the supreme build?**
No, not at all. The reason is that the enemies can only reflect damage you do, which is just their health. They cannot reflect more damage than health that they have. And even then, they only reflect half of the damage
Here is an example: If an enemy has 100 health, and you do 1,000 damage, it will only reflect 100 damage. However, as mentioned before, it will only reflect half damage, so they really only do 50 damage to you by reflect.
Also, they can not reflect effects, only damage.
**What if you tier up? Then you have less health**
Check my forum post about blueprint tiers, linked below.
# Targeting 
**Do certain targeting modes matter?**
Different targeting is better for certain situations.
**Close:** This is good if the enemies you dealing with are around your level of power. It's good to kill them before they reach you, so you don't have to deal with getting hit at all. Recommended for when you are doing easy-hard normally, not farming. **Currently broken**
**Far:** This is amazing for late game, or just when enemies are way weaker than you. You use this so you can kill enemies closer to their spawns, thus they spawn faster and you kill more. Any that manage to slip through will either be killed by your auras or reflect upgrades. Basically for when you want to go fast. **Currently broken**
**Most health:** I don't find a lot of use for this, however, it might be good for when bosses are your main threat. This is because it will take the boss to the same health as other enemies before you start attacking at random. This reduces the threat of bosses in a way.
**Least health:** This is extremely situational. I have only had this happen rarely, but at times, when the enemies are similar strength as you, a nature boss (Big green cubes) will survive your attacks and hit you. However, you don't die instantly. This usually happens in missions; however it can happen in normal game. The reason you want this targeting is because it's usually multiple nature enemies around you gaining health. If you attack the one with the lowest health, you will kill them quicker than trying to kill all the health regening enemies at once. It's also suggested to have darkness to take down their health.
**Special enemies:** This just makes it so you remove special threats easier, and deal with more predictable enemies lasting longer instead of ones that might jump at you when too close, or ones that shoot you. **Post town upgrade:** You can also now have this targeting mode synergize with another targeting mode, so that's cool I guess.
**Random:** This one may seem silly, but it's very good. This is best in missions I believe, or if you hate defense. The reason is that it combines the pros of all the other targeting. You can attack enemies near your tower, while also attack enemies at their spawn to speed up the fight. You can also do more to special enemies and remove their threat.
# Enemies
Just check the stats building in town to learn about elements for enemies
**Enemy types**
* **Tanky:** Like normal but slower, bigger, lot more health
* **Boss:** Like tanky but even bigger, slower, and way more stats
* **Ranged:** They shoot you
* **Assassin:** Fast and they jump at you
# Defense
So you go through the easy-hard difficulties, and you hear people talking about defense for insane. Why is that?
Well, defense is needed for the start of insane, because enemies instantly spawn at your tower and throw a projectile that you can't dodge before you get the chance to even ATTACK them. This is why insane might be so hard at the start for some people; since they came in with a glass cannon build.
Since you need defense for early insane, it's usually best to get health and electricity aura to do damage based on your health, and universal aura to ignore enemy elemental resists.
Defense is a bit useless on the other difficulties, and even in later waves of insane. However, you will want some reflect, a defense upgrade, in late insane end game.
Also, defense is good for missions and challenges, so you don't just die.
# Running in the background
You might notice that your game runs slower after going to a different tab then combing back to the game, why is that exactly?
Well, for some reason, either unity or browsers in general slow down when they are the background tab, this means the game processes at 1/3 speed when you go to a different tab
**How do you fix this?**
Just put this game in it's own window to fix it.
# New bounds
Unlocked at tier 4 HQ
**Why is it so strong?**
Well, what this does is it makes it so enemies gain less health and damage per wave. This means it's easier to kill enemies and that you can go longer in the game. ~~Also, higher tier enemies need more enemies per wave or something, and in short, they take longer to fully take down. This means that 0% new bounds would have less WPM than 100% new bounds~~ Actually Schinmv the elder god and I were wrong, higher tier does not affect WPM, or it is too small to matter at all. EDIT: HOWEVER! It seems that higher newbounds means you have less periods of enemies tiering up, making them slow, which means you spend more time being fast, which results in higher WPM
Some say it's over powered, but it does have it's checks and balances
**How could there be any flaw to this?**
While it is very nice, higher tiered enemies give more oranges when killed, ~~this means that new bounds will give you fewer oranges per second than no new bounds. However, you will get more oranges per tier, for it stretches out the tier over more waves, it's just that instant orange gain is better with no new bounds, especially if you are high tiered and your enemies are low tiered with max new bounds~~
Actually, since there is higher WPM, you could use new bounds to your advantage. I was wrong in saying this NB trick coined by Wychunter was wrong, since I didn't understand it.
**What is the NB trick?**
Basically, you want a high bp tier, you need to get newbounds so you have enemies near your tier, this means they give a lot of oranges. Then, you buy new bounds IN GAME, with whites (gained with max interest limit) followed with gems, to get newbounds to either 10% or 25% if you are good enough, so that you get faster WPM and enemies stay near your tier. This results in you having high tiered enemies with high WPM which gives a lot of special resources. Although if you are low tier then it might not be worth it.
**Sadly it appears I didn't explain the NB trick that well, if you are still confused, read this**
NB trick for late end game pros goes like this; you have absolutely none, 0% new bounds. No upgrades in it, it is BLANK! Then you go in a wave, your enemies probably aren't even near your wave since you can tier up your blueprint way faster than they can tier up. So now that the enemies are the highest tier they possibly can for the amount of waves you are at, you THEN use your INSANE amount of gems to buy 100% new bounds in a run (Or use ultimate chance). This slows the progress of enemies, meaning they stay at higher health for longer, which means they keep top speed. Not only that, this allows you to get to higher waves in an enemy tier, since waves in an enemy tier boosts SR gain.
NB trick for the average Joe is a bit different. First off, you can't outpace your enemies, so you need to have just enough new bounds in the workshop to be 10 tiers ahead of your enemy when you start a run. Also, you hardly have any gems, so you need to max your interest and wait until you get e201 whites or whatever, and put that into new bounds. You might max out at 20% if you are somehow able to start with 0% new bounds.
**Pros**
* Survive for more waves
* Enemies don't tier up as fast
* ~~H̸i̸g̸h̸e̸r̸ ̸W̸P̸M̸~~
* **Higher WPM**
* Higher oranges per second if done right
**Cons**
* ~~Less oranges per second~~
* Enemies don't tier up as fast
# Game Modes
**Normal:** You just kill enemies and progress, you can gain blueprint points to put in your blueprint or tier up your blueprint, enemies can tier up too.
**Challenge:** Same like normal but now you are limited to 15k blueprint points, check my why gain blueprint tiers to learn a trick. And there was an update, so the 15k cap is increased by BP tier, it scales now.
*blueprint tiers does not affect this*
**Missions:** You are given certain orders to follow and survive a set amount of waves, I explain more in another section
**Sandbox:** Similar to missions but you can customize it exactly, however there are no rewards I believe.
**Cubos/boss fight:** Just a regular ol boss fight, I talk more about it in another section
# Cubos 
**Who?**
Cubos is the end game boss. After you get Tier 5 HQ, you unlock Cubos. Cubos is a boss fight, so it's different than what you are used to playing from everything else. He will shoot a missile at you every second or so, and you do the same, but you have upgrades that let you attack faster, or have special effects.
**How does it work?**
You have to use your resources to upgrade certain things to help you beat Cubos. You have tower upgrades, and skill upgrades.
You have to click one of the elemental skills to charge it, which uses resources to increase the charge rate, so you can use special skills faster. When a skill is fully charged, a button appears on your tower saying it takes 80 energy to use the skill. When charging, you cannot shoot missiles, so faster charging is good.
Also, if you run out of energy, you need to wait for your tower to regen energy to be able to use your skill. You can still charge a skill even without energy.
Basically you and Cubos fling missiles at each other from a far distance until Cubos reaches your tower and kills you, or kills you with missiles if you have low hp.
Also, ultra block has a cap at 80%, which is an 80% chance to evade damage.
**Where do my stats come from?**
Your stats come from your blueprint tier, as in your health, damage, and maximum energy.
One bug though is that at max blueprint tier of 2 billion, your health and energy are in the negatives and basically useless, so you get one-shot and cannot use skills. The highest non bugged blueprint tier is 214,748,354
**How do I defeat him?**
The first 3 tiers of Cubos, you only really need to use the fire skill. However, as Cubos' tier increases, he gets more health and damage. You need a higher blueprint tier to survive the hits and to do damage with your tower. The best strat later is to just get 5% energy regen and spam air to keep Cubos away. You also want around 10% - 15% regen for air and darkness. You should try to use darkness first, then use air when Cubos gets close to push him away. Make sure to increase attack speed to do damage when his health is low, and also increase special power so air pushes Cubos back farther, and so that darkness reduces more health. Eventually, you can get to the point where you only spam darkness until you can kill Cubos, without needing to use any air.
If you have broken stats from max blueprint, just keep playing until your missile speed RNG is faster than Cubos’s missile speed RNG
**What's with the universal skill?**
The reason universal skill takes 10 times longer to change than any other skill is because it's like darkness but stronger. This means that Universal is pointless, because it's hardly worth the effort when darkness does the same thing but less, yet can be spammed faster so you can compound exponentialy.
**Why fight Cubos?**
Cubos gives rare gems on death. The first 4 times are 1 gem each, then the 5th time you get a special cutscene to end the game (that's what the creator says it is at least), and you get 10 rare gems, then every kill after that is 2 gems. These gems are used in the temple to buy special upgrades, either special resource boost (orange cubes), exchange conversion, instant research tokens etc. Lastly, after 5 Cubos kills, if you get 100 BP tiers, then you can town tier.
**What if I die?**
If Cubos reaches your tower, you instantly die. Cubos can also kill you with his missiles. What death means is that you lost all the resources you spent to kill him, so you basically wasted your resources.
**Pros**
* You can get rare gems
* Something to do
* The end of the game
* Something to gain status in the leaderboards and use to say you are better than everyone else
**Cons**
* Hard
* waste of resources if killed
* At times is a waste of resources even if you win
* Max blueprint tier means you get one-shot and cannot use skills.
# Missions 
Missions are unlocked at HQ Tier 4, and you have a limited amount of blueprint points to use. The filter really change the missions by a lot, so you can either do upgrading or no upgrading, choose certain enemies and even rewards. The only thing I can say for sure is the max waves is 1k, and that the blueprint requirements changes. Choosing no upgrading means you can most likely afk the mission, so there's that.
*blueprint tiers does not affect this*
**Why do them?**
You need to do 300 missions to complete the missions row in the stats building, which increases your special resource gains. Also, every time you complete a mission, your rewards multiplier increases, and if you have a lot of mission reward boost from HQ then you will be able to make bank in gems. Everything else is useless at that point though.
**Tips**
When using filter, if you leave and come back to the missions, and you try to continue filtering, the filter starts back at 0, so you will want to go to missions management, click the green show button, and find the last mission you did. Then you take that number, put it in the options box saying start at, and when you hit continue filtering, the list will start off from where you left. Also, having health and damage research helps a lot.
**The man/myth/legend and their guide for your first 100 or so missions**
The elder god (Schinmv) made this guide to help start you on your way: http://pastebin.com/wMXF0F2L
# Info and statistics building 
This building has certain requirements to gain boosts. Sometimes you need to do hard waves, or kill a certain amount of certain enemies, to unlock a stat point.
What the stats page does is that you can buy black cubes with a bunch of oranges, and whenever you hit a goal, you get probably 1% increase to your SR gains (You gain more orange cubes).
**What are the black cubes used for?**
If you hit a goal, you can click the highlighted cube, if you have black cubes on hand, and it will fill the slot. This gives a bigger SR boost than just 1%.
**Why are there 5 cube slots each row?**
I have no idea why it's 5, but if you fill up an entire row, you gain an even bigger boost. 1% for just having done the goal, another 1-4% I believe from filling a slot, depending on the goal. And then an entire row boosts what it did before, but it also gives a big boost, ~~the only one I can confirm is the missions row that gave an extra 20% from filling the row~~
Entire row gives an addition 10% boost, which is 20% with the town tier upgrade.
**What is the maximum amount of boost the building gives?**
The max is 640% boost to SR gains normally, with town tier it is doubled, so the cap should be 1,280% with the max upgrade in town tiering.
**How do I get enemy kills quickly?**
Just run on sandbox, 1,000 waves, with whatever enemies you need. If you have all the element types and just need enemy classes, I suggest ice, since that gives more kills.
# Interest
Interest is a utility upgrade gained from laboratory research.
Max interest means you get 2% of your total whites per wave, meaning if you have 100,000 whites on you, then the next wave, your interest of a max of 2% would give you 2,000 whites, meaning you would have a total of 102,000 whites on that next wave.
**Wow that sounds over powered**
Not really, since there IS a LIMIT!
*Limit:* Another thing in laboratory research, the fastest to research upgrade, best for town tiers.
What the interest limit does is limit how much whites you get, so say the limit is 100, then getting 2% interest on 100,000 whites is limited to getting you 100, so you would actually have 100,100 the next wave.
**Wow, that makes interest useless!**
Not really, interest limit is quick to research, it's just that it costs greens to upgrade the limit. Besides, each upgrade multiplies your limit by 10, with the max interest limit being 1e201 (I believe), so at the max you could eventually be getting 1e201 whites every round. (Of course you have to go through enough waves for that)
# Factory 
The factory gives you resources per interval, which is when one of the rows fills up. You can spend red cubes to make the rows charge faster, and you can use gems to increase your gains per interval
**Tiering**
At tier 4 HQ, one of those, you are able to tier up your factory 4 times, so the max tier for factory is either 4 or 5 depending on how you look at it. What this does is your factory is reset, and to tier up again you need to max all the rows again. Tiering up increases the interval, the max tier makes it so every interval upgrade adds 16 resources gained per interval. A hacker also said that it takes 28 interval upgrades to break the game. **Post town update:** Unsure if you can do this after town upgrade, if you can, then having to max the gems will be a pain, and might not even be worth it unless the gems really give something.
**Tips**
When you unlock tiering, do not buy interval upgrades until you max the factory, this way the gems are not wasted. Also, this is best to max before tiering up the first time, since the factory helps you recover when you tier up your HQ. Also, HQ Tiers or Blueprint Tiers do not reset factory. **Post Town Update:** Unknown if you can tier up without gems production line, if you can then don't get it until you are over powered.
**What is hyperdrive? (hypercube)**
Apparently people say that either after 2 days or before, when offline, the factory goes insane and multiplies the resources it gained. This can be useful at times, especially if you just tiered up.
**How is it in late game?** 
Not good, trash in fact. You get too many oranges from insane that you can buy more resources than the factory can give. Early game it's pretty good though
**Pros**
* Recovery after HQ tiers
* Free resources
* Great for early game
* Hyperdrive
**Cons**
* Costly to upgrade at the start
* Removes upgrades if you tier it up
* Useless in late game
# Workshop 
The main part of the game, upgrading your tower to be better.
There are four sections of upgrades, each with a lot of stuff that you might need to scroll through to see all the upgrades.
Sword = offense
Shield = defense
Star = utility
Purple nurple = ultimate stuff
**Selected blueprint:**
Here you can make multiple blueprints, each with their own blueprint tier and build. You can name them to make them easier to manage if you want.
**Export and import:** 
These are different from the export and import for saving in the main menu. These are just for blueprints, or builds. You can save or export a build, and then you get some string of letters and symbols that someone can use to import said string and get the build you have, IF they have the blues.
There is a *glitch* here where if you export and import a tier 0 full blueprint, then even on a blueprint tier 10k, the imported blueprint will reduce the cost the the base cost of a blueprint, which is way cheaper higher up.
**Try maximize and try upgrade:**
Try maximize tries to upgrade your entire blueprint to the max, as in it goes from left to right of all the upgrades, maxing them, until either you run out of blues, or everything is maxed. Try upgrade works only with try maximize, and if try maximize upgrades everything to the max, then try upgrade will tier up your blueprint automatically for you. It does not do it constantly; you have to click every time you want to tier up your blueprint. You can also tier up by multiples of X1, X5, X25, X100, X1000, X10000, XMAX
In fact, I doubt try maximize and try upgrade puts points in the upgrades, as I assume it just checks if you have enough blues and then tiers you up anyways, meaning you don’t need research to blueprint tier up.
**Reset:**
This just clears all the upgrades from your blueprint, starting it from a blank slate. This does NOT reset the tier of your blueprint.
**Upgrade town!**
This giant red button only appears when you are able to tier your town, as in you need 100 blueprint tiers and 5 Cubos kills. Maybe look at the town tiering section of this guide.
# Laboratory 
You do research here, with the research lasting until you TOWN tier, not to be confused with headquarters tiering.
Also, there are multiple pages, just 2 I think, remember to scroll if needed.
**What's the maximum research level?**
They vary, but the highest ones are for damage and hitpoints, at level D (500 in roman numerals)
**Utility:**
the gambling unlocks upgrades that have a chance to give you a random free upgrade every wave in a run. These upgrades are called defensive chance, offensive chance, and utility chance. They buy the random upgrade free for you in a run, but the cost increases.
**General:**
The unique thing here is just attack modes, what that gives is targeting mode, as in target special enemies? Or target most health? etc.
**Elementals:**
The first level gives you elemental damage, and maybe resistance, upgrades. The second gives you special stat upgrades to the elemental damages. The third and last upgrade level of elements lets you buy the aura variant of the element in your defense.
**Research speed:**
You can use gems here to make your research faster, or use purples in HQ to increase research speed. Both upgrades multiply each other. This, of course, reduces how long it takes to research something in the lab. you can also use a research token to instantly research whatever you are trying to research. If something takes too long, the timer will say until the universe ends or something. This means it won't research without a LOT more speed or a token.
**Auto research:**
This just keeps researching whatever you were researching, if you have enough greens. If used on an element, it gets to element level 3 if enough greens, and then stops after that, since that is the limit. Used on hitpoints however, and it will keep going until either it reaches the max, out of greens, or the timer says nonexistent.
# Temple 
The temple in the town has some very good upgrades.
**What is that converting thing?**
If you convert purples and gems, you can gain rare gems. There is a town tier upgrade that lowers how much the conversion cost increases
**Rare gems?**
Those purple gems are rare gems, that are used to buy a lot of things in the temple. You can get them from codes, such as mytower42, from killing Cubos, and converting blue gems.
**What about the global upgrades?**
You can get upgrades for SR, meaning you will increase how much SR enemies drop. The other upgrade just makes converting resources cheaper, except the temple converting I believe. The SR boost is additive to itself, multiplicative to everything else.
**Instant research tokens?**
Yep, you get a token for how many it says, and then in laboratory, when you start a research, you can click on a token to instantly research whatever you are researching.
**How do I get more gems?** 
The temple has an option to give you gems if you pay with rare gems. To get more gems from the purchase, ~~you need to unlock stat building achievements; I don't think you need to use black cubes. You also can get more gems from laboratory research. Not sure what else affects this. Eventually you can get a lot of gems that the converting price will take a long time to get close to the amount of gems you have. Maxing out laboratory is what will give you the most gems.~~
What DOES give more gems is laboratory research SPEED! Meaning the speed IN the lab and speed from HQ. Also, resources/interval for factory increases the amount of gems gained from temple.
**Tower customization:** 
With this, you can change the color and texture of your tower, and even add objects, such as cubes or spheres or donuts. You can make the added shapes pulsates or move around. You can't change the size or anything with the base tower block, but you can mess with everything else.
**Misc**
You can speed up time in terms of factory for factory resources, which is useless.
# Town Upgrading 
**Aww man, another tier style?**
I'm afraid so.
**Well what is it? How do you do it?**
Town tiering is unlocked when you get 100 blueprint tiers, and 5 Cubos kills, then you can tier up your town. Some people suggest you get at LEAST 5,000 blueprint tiers first, so you can get more town credits, so you can really afford some upgrades. Some say 500 is very optimal, but that leaves a big grind for you after the tier up. I know someone that vouches for inbetween. I'll let you decide.
**What does it do?**
Town tiering gets rid of everything except the rare gems that you bought with kreds. Meaning all your Cubos kills, mission multiplier, stats building, temple, research etc is all removed. You can use town credits for some upgrades that do some cool things, think of the ancient ancients in Clicker Heroes or something.
**How many town credits?**
This is the formula a dev gave: 5+BlueprintTier*ConversionRate
Guess what, ConversionRate is: ((5+11*ConversionLevel)/60)
And the Conversion level is just 0.45 or whatever, idk, doesn't matter since the conversion rate is fully said in the upgrade box, what am I doing with my life... Got a statistics test tomorrow...
Oh, yeah, there is an upgrade to get more credits, that's capitalism for ya.
##### **Wut r duh upgrades mang?** 
**Rare Gem Conversion Price:** Reduces cost of rare gems in temple. Not sure if kred purchases are affected or not. Max is 8%
**Droprate:** Not sure if it makes it more likely that enemies drop the rare resources, or if they just drop more, but it depends on how many Town Credits you have left. For example, you have it so you get the bonus at 0.5%, and you have 100 town credits left, that's 0.5X100 = 50% more either drops or SR. Max is 2%, so 100 town credits = 200% more drops.
**Speed:** Unknown if there is a limit to it right now, just makes your game faster. So instead of just being x2 and x4, you can get x8 or even x16. People are saying the x32 was a glitch and x16 is the max
**Gem production Line:** As of right now, just don't as this makes factory harder to tier since you now need to spend an extremely higher amount of red cubes to upgrade the gem production line to even upgrade the interval upgrades by tiering the factory that it's not worth it unless you are god tier higher. But yeah, it essentially lets the factory make the BLUE gems.
**Town Credit Conversion Rate:** Makes it so when you town tier you get more Town Credits for upgrades and stuff. 1.85 is max level. (Since this only boosts your conversion of BPT into TC, and since TC boosts your SR gain, it's recommended you wait until you are ready to town tier again before putting all your TC into this, so you get the boost from TC for the run, but get the boost of this upgrade being upgraded by spending the TC at the end of your town run).
**Stats Bonus:** It does NOT make it so every black cube gives whatever percentage, it just affects the overall bonus, which is multiplicative, with the max just doubling the effectiveness.
**More Utility:** Gives you more utility upgrades.
* Price Reduction: Reduces the price of INGAME upgrades.
* Ultimate chance: Basically defense chance but for ultimate upgrades. As in, buys ultimate upgrades every wave in game.
* Special Resource Chance: Killing any enemy gives a chance at SR.
* Factory Resource chance: Killing gives a chance at gaining RED.
* Workshop Resource chance: Killing gives a chance at gaining BLUE.
* Laboratory Resource chance: Killing gives a chance at gaining GREEN.
* Headquarters Resource chance: Killing gives a chance at gaining PURPLE.
* Statistics Resource chance: Killing gives a chance at gaining BLACK.
* Gems / Wave: Increases how many gems you get per wave when the gem event is triggered.
* Gems / Kill: Increases how many gems you get per kill when the gem event is triggered.
** More Ultimates:** Gives you more ultimate upgrades.
* Gravity Well: Enemies come towards you in a circular path, basically useless.
* Mega Bounce: Bullets have a percent chance to bounce again after the last bounce target was hit.
# Miscellaneous
**How do you break things?** 
The way you can break numbers and things in games is that if a number value is set to an int, just an int, then when it reaches around 2 million or billion or something, it reaches it's limit. What this means is the number goes into 0, meaning you if it's a cost function, it then pays YOU to buy it. And in this game, when you reach the number limit, the thing will pay you and then just cost 0. Say for example factory, if you get enough gems and pay into the interval upgrades, you can eventually make it so the cost for resources/interval is free and you can just buy more resources/interval willy nilly. Now while you may think that's op, as of right now, you can only buy probably 10 upgrades a second on factory, and even with 100 million resources an interval, the factory hardly gives me anything at this point. Some numbers are stored as doubles, which can go really high, the limit being around 1e308, such as the enemy health and damage. Those numbers take longer to break.
**Why do people say they have scores higher than the all time leaderboards?**
Kongregate has a bot that deletes outlier scores, I think if it's 10% above the average it gets cut. It does this to deal with hackers, but for people with no lives like me, we also are affected even though we didn't hack at all.
**website, browser, whatever**
Different internet browsers are affected differently on this game. For me, Firefox plays this the best, and chrome has issues. Lots of people have had issues with this game on chrome actually. As for websites, [the original website usually runs this game faster](http://www.fs-studios.com/games/perfecttower/) But be careful, if you bought rare gems, then it will not accept your save.
**Ey yo my save messed up**
Sometimes you open the game, and your save isn't there. That happens sometimes with a good amount of games, though it usually rarely happens. I remember it happening to me on roblox. All you gotta do really is refresh and that usually restores your save. Sometimes you might have a situation where it doesn't accept your save if you bought rare gems on this game. What that means is you have to log out of your Kongregate profile and log back in to have the save work. Also, just read my first section man, YOU NEED TO HAVE MULTIPLE SAVES!
**When I click in a building, it opens up another building:**
This happens when you click off the game, onto chat or just on Kongregate itself. This is because when you click off screen, for whatever reason, it puts you back in town, but you still the building that you were in as what shows on screen. You can still mess with the inside of the building, but clicking prioritizes town first, so if you click on a building behind some upgrade button in the building you are in, it will open that building first, however, if there is no building behind the button you are clicking, then it will click that button as normal.
**Where is the discord?** 
The discord can be found by clicking the discord icon at the home page, bottom left corner.
**My game won’t work? (black screen, grey screen, stuck at 90%)**
There are multiple ways to try and fix this.
* Clear cache and refresh/reset browser.
* Disable protection of website/page (For firefox, click the padlock and click the arrow on connection)
* Use different browser?
* Use a VPN or whatever to change your IP to another location, originally this bug is for certain places of America
**What is speedrunning?**
Speed running is a form of gameplay, where a player tries to finish a game as fast a possible. The internet is filled with leaderboards showing a list of players with the best times to complete a game. The leaderboards may be for sections of a game, or the entire game itself.
There are sections and special rules to every game's speedrunning community, to help make speedrunning more enjoyable and to more easily categorize runs.
Popular speed running sections are any% (Where you are allowed to skip the game if there are glitches that allow you to skip sections of a game, such as a skip in grand theft auto san andreas that allows you to go from the second mission to the final mission), 100% (Where you don't skip any important moments of the game, such a quests or barriers in a game), and skipless runs (Where you don't use any skips/bugs/glitches at all, and rely purely on skill).
Speedrunning has been a thing for a long time, back to even the original doom.
The perfect tower even has a [speed running leaderboard](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/32139-the-perfect-tower/topics/1838380-speed-running-leaderboard)
# Support the author?
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# Also check out my other posts
[Blueprint tiers](http://www.Kongregate.com/forums/32139-the-perfect-tower/topics/680935-why-gain-blueprint-tiers)
[Late game Builds](http://www.Kongregate.com/forums/32139-the-perfect-tower/topics/684238-some-late-game-builds-to-burn-waves)
[All ze codes](http://www.Kongregate.com/forums/32139-the-perfect-tower/topics/843709-all-codes-so-far)
[Speed running leaderboard](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/32139-the-perfect-tower/topics/1838380-speed-running-leaderboard)
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