Comparing ink (talent and prosperity) to wealth. Wealth: - Sold ink only Ink: - Chest income increased. You get more seconds of income the higher business level you are. - Ink value increased. More business levels means more ink by a small margin. - Presents. Instant shells. - Better scaling (See google sheet neptune visualizer tab) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15g1ELpGhMFIVz1NWM7VE0Wy9nPtd4wR2EUsRH4iwGT8/edit#gid=622492421 In my experiance wealth while alright cannot compare. I just tried a limited 8 run using wealth and it failed. Early game it was good. When I got into the mid game climbing to griffin it was alright but I wanted ink instead for chest income. Late game (after griffin) it failed. Presents where my main income and I needed it for more clown. If I had gone with black instead of wealth I may have limited 8 or at least more possible. I was far off 100 days easily off because I simply lacked the present to buy clowns. My other experiance was trying to break 1000 early in the patch thinking I would eventually get the next 25 griffin and break through. It was not a short run it was over christmas with the family. Presents massivly outweigh it so it was a bad idea. I went over 3 days income as well and stroked so was able to produce stained resonably easily. Even in where it should be ideal it was not close to black. The biggest thing though is wealth is only sold not chests. So it helps to close the gap between chests and sold but chests are still ahead. Business level presents are the only income very late game. So wealth gives you 0 income and black gives you a ton more. But this is just because we are lacking a new squid currently. Wealth is a linear gain where black ink is squared (^2) as it progresses it gets better and better. So wealth is more relevent early but gets progressivly worse. So the only real place I see wealth potentailly being good is early before you have a ton of pearls or chest monuments/artifacts. In general pick the black abilities only. If you are wondering about optimization my sheets have a table for them. But you buy 2 levels of prosperity then 1:1 with talent from then on. Solution: Colored ink option in neptune. This makes shells also ^2 like black ink. I doubt I would be using wealth as chests are more important then sold. I would use it though with the 2 black. But it would help close the divide and potentially make it better for idlers. Put a exponent on wealth. So W^1.5. Accepts wealth weakness.

Ahh yes very interesting

Wealth also increases the shells you get from ink orders. That is the biggest boost i see from it. Getting 5X the shells from a single ink order has gotten me over many humps mid-run.