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Then put all your free time into research start leveling study skills or meditation swap between them every 5-10 level get 10 levels in Getting Stuff Done this unlocks a new boost. Get study skills and meditation to 25 and getting stuff done to 10 remember to place the new time into research *note 50 levels in study skills, 10 in getting stuff done, and 25 in meditation unlock Boost **Step 2:** Keep upgrading your job, in the lifestyle tab buy the best food when you can, have a house that gives you .6 Happiness. But the cleaner if you can afford it, if you can't afford it remember it free up time allowing you to put that into work which means more exp which means more exp which means more money *note the event Lost Wallet might have appeared give it back this time makes the first life easier **Step 3:** Level up leadership to 10 and investing to 10 this gives you more experience in jobs and slightly more income they should be pretty fast, also you need 10 leadership for INSERT JOB TITLE HERE to advance in BunMasters **Step 4:** By now you might have noticed you have some boost to use them you can press b or go to the tab under lifestyle. We're gonna use them and rush to 50 study to unlock the last boost and then level up meditation to 50 as well. Then level up getting stuff done to 25 remember to place the new time into research. **Step 5:** From here you have the basic down of improving your self keep going with a focus on self improvement these make all skills faster, Level up other skills as you see fit no need to touch Quantum Mechanics until later just make sure you get levels in it before age 60. Optional You can also get levels in Yugle to make the next life easier. Also remember to keep getting better food/houses and buy assistants when you can, research is best. **Step 6:** You researched age 60 a new event has appeared to groundhog go ahead you now have multipliers based off max level making everything go much faster go ahead unlock those boost and get everything as high as you can. I suggest playing out this life much like the last but going down Yugle job line for more money especially if you have level in it all ready. I also like to push Quantum Mechanics in the last years of my life **Step 7:** You now reached your 2 or 3 GH and you want to unlock DP go for it unlock it all advance all the way through the jobs. If you haven't all read you should be focusing on the Yungle job line to make money faster which means more health which mean a faster speed in everything you do. It can take a few GH to get through DP start as Yungle and when you have enough money switch over. **Step 8:** You reached the end of DP CEO 10 you researched all the new researches kept unlocking the new one going forward and now you have a laser gun and a Loop Trap Device. Go ahead level them up turn the gun on in Lambda tab lives those extra years don't do a loop through play through one more life with the new GH multipliers on the Gun and LTD and get the efficiency as how as you can. Also aim for a minimum of 600 in study skills and meditation. **Step 9:** You researched then end (QQ they grow up so fast) you understand the game now go out there and keep looping. For the rest of your loops aim for .06 efficency it seems to be a soft cap and growth above that is very slow. **Glossary:** exp (experience) DP (Dark Plateau) - A new job line you can unlock if you get 50 Quantum Mechanics before the age of 28, GH (GroundHog) - At age 60 you will get a new event that lets you replay the game with bonus dependent on max level of skills and jobs a soft reset. 10 level = 2x multiplier, 20=3x, 100=11x ect Gun (Laser Gun) - Unlocked after going though the physics research tree and hitting 10 CEO. Used to shoot down alien ships LTD (Loop Trap Device) - Unlocked after going though the physics research tree and hitting 10 CEO. Used to perform a loop. Lambda - Can turn the laser on and perform a Loop. Is the ??? Tab Loop - 2nd reset not as soft. As you shoot down alien ships and level up the LTD your efficiency increase .3 minimum for a loop. Looping works like GH but the multiplier is based on efficiency. Both GH and Loop multiply each other ex base exp 10exp x 5 (GH Bonus) x 3 (loop bonus) = 150exp **Achievements** **Circle of Life** - Play the game long enough and you will get all these **Seven Deadly Sins ** * Envy- Keep the wallet do this after 1st GH * Gluttony- Get the most expensive food for a year does not have to be in a row * Greed- 500 investing get this after 2nd or 3rd GH by getting levels each time * Sloth- Sleep 22 hours once getting stuff is down to < 1hour pause and move all your time to sleep then set everything back. * Wrath- Takes a good amount of time with the gun but easy **Money** * Millionaire- once you unlock yungle ceo super easy with some levels * Billionaire- pretty much the same just don't stop working on ceo after you reach 150 million * Trillionaire- earn as much as you can go to sleep come back to a trillion from interest and really slow ticks **Path of the Burger Flipper** * Flippin' Faster- Once you have some levels from previous GH super easy the more levels the easier it is * Flippin' Fantastic- Easy to do after 1st GH can even get levels in at the end of first life to make it easier * Zen of Flipping - Takes a few GH’s best to do once you have 150 million and living of interest **Path of the Code Monkey ** * Master Intern- Easier with more levels from previous GH * But Why?- Takes a while even more exp then Zen of Flipping same tip wait on 150 million * Marissa?- Remember to level up all jobs in Yungle so you can get to ceo faster not just ceo. Also buy best food as fast as possible * Carmackesque- Keep leveling Programming higher and higher each GH * Knuthish- Keep leveling Algorithms higher and higher each GH * Linusian- Keep leveling Software Engineering higher and higher each GH **Mood** * Happy- First pause the game. Have a house with .6, get food that you're happy with for your age, spend enough increase that happiness, and remove time off work and research and move 1 hour to sleep. * Miseriable- First pause the game. Easier when your old, get all the crappiest stuff, remove as much time from sleep put it too work. **Path of the Physicist** * Welcome…- 50 in quantum mechanics before age 28 * Gordon- Get to Lambda Trainee * Kleiner- Get to level 10 in the physic job line Dark Plateau * Planetary Gunslinger- Keep researching the new researches you unlock from the Dark Plateau * Groundhog King- Possible after 4-5 loops **Jobs:** All jobs require 10 levels in the previous job to advance some jobs have other special requirements which can be fulfilled in the Lab tab BunMasters Burger Flipper - Unlocked at the start Chief Flipper Kitchen Manager Shift Manager - 10 leadership required Assistant Manager Restaurant Manager Regional Manager - 50 leadership required Chief Strategist CEO - 100 leadership required Yugle Unpaid Intern - 10 Programing required Junior Developer - 20 Programing required Software Engineer - 5 Software Architecture required Project Lead Team Lead - 10 leadership required Senior Architect Division Lead Product Manager CTO - 100 leadership required CEO Dark Plateau Lab Cleaner - 50 Quantum Mechanics before the age of 28 event Lab Assistant Junior Scientist Scientist Senior Scientist Lab Supervisor Lambda Trainee - 300 Quantum Mechanics Lambda Scientist Lambda Chief CEO **Events** Lost Wallet - Keep it to unlock Envy Achievement / give it back get CANDY and $50k in 10 years Dark Plateau - Have 50 Quantum Mechanics before the age of 28 to unlock Dark Plateau job line First Contact - Story elements **Tips:** (Comment or send me your tips) Getting food from Yungle is the best early game option http://www.kongregate.com/forums/930189-groundhog-life/topics/840426-dont-overlook-the-benefits-of-yuugle-campus-food for a complete breakdown work/life balance ignore it All jobs have 10 ranks Once you can afford it have 9 hours of sleep Having 150 million with approx 13% interest lets you buy everything and not have to work. The game ticks slow down at age 60 (or when you can’t kill the aliens) but never stop, you can use this to get a trillion overnight Pausing the game either with the button or P or going offline builds up time which can be used to speed up the game Prioritize $700 food over the two $500 assistance Anything that is blue can be clicked for a break down You will always be missing 1 min with slacking even if it says 0:00 groundhog every ~1 hour, ~90 sec for a year (subspace212121) **Market** *Note buy Minimalism and then Shady pills as soon as you can. Minimalism - Makes it easier to keep energy up and Fancy house will last almost your whole life at .6 Shady pills - Makes you feel 10 years younger lets you keep your energy higher for longer Auto Boost - Set your boost on auto few options such as stacking waiting on “Go to Conference” Auto Promotion - Auto promotes your job at what ever level you set. Makes the game slightly more Idle Research Queue - Allows you to set up a queue where you set target levels for your Lab researches. If setup right you can have it go from first life to Loop pretty good for making the game more Idle. Lifetime Boost - Gives 42 years of speed up time. I use this one so I can make a fast setup then slow game down and let my queue just go. Dark Matter Ritual - It's a stronger boost that last 10 years and gives 100% Memory Groundhog - Reset right now with your current level lose your money, really strong in the early game. metadata i was trying for the unhappiness acheivement (.10 happiness)- as a new player. is it possible without sleep deprivation "bonus"? (was doing 19 hours of work a day, and that STILL gave .19 happiness) metadata Anyone know how much real life time it takes to accrue bonus ticks? Another note, I think you can only have as much as 42 years' worth of ticks at any one time, can someone confirm this? Anyone know how I can stop the game from sucking the life out of my battery? It goes really fast compared to just surfing the web or watching video. metadata Kevlar I just got back from vaction gonna work on achivments soonish so today or tommorow. But you can just remove your sleep and get it easy peasy. I2dunnon I have 205 years right now built up from my vacation Dominic close the tab seems to have a max of 21 years metadata It's also 21 years for me... I always thought that was odd, now it's obviously a glitch... :/ metadata Do we have a list about what age do each home drop from 0.6? (with Minimalism) metadata Meop if left opens seems to be fine Meowwww I dont have it its only for a few lives then it changes and is very unimportant. So i havent researched it yet. metadata @meop79: 21 years of bonus ticks would equate to 42 years of ticks when used, taking a player from 18-60 in a single go. I don't think it's a glitch or bug, but probably intended design. metadata > *Originally posted by **[meowwww](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11433723)**:* > Do we have a list about what age do each home drop from 0.6? (with Minimalism) They drop every 10 years, so 28, 38, 48, 58, etc metadata To clarify: do bonuses stay through more than one reincarnation? For example if you get to level 10 in something you gain experience twice as fast in the next life. If in life 2 you get to level 10 again, are you twice as fast as originally or four times as fast? metadata its still twice as fast then metadata > *Originally posted by **[InklingRain](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11444800)**:* > . If in life 2 you get to level 10 again, are you twice as fast as originally or four times as fast? Twice as fast. The speed you get there is determined by the Max Lvl metadata What the fuck. DP CEO is so fucking hard to reach even after 22 GH, quitting this retarted game for good l0l. metadata How in hell is 700$ food better than assistant? At 100$/h wage, the cost of personal chef + 2 hours of work compared to fancy cooking is 430$, nearly the same as secretary, which typically gives 4 hours/day worth of XP, while expensive food only gives 2. Now one can argue that at 100$/h, it's not worth paying a secretary and working 8h a day (or paying a chef), but at 100$ a day, you can work 20+h a day for a few years and earn a few milions to live and pay a research assistant on interest, and spend more than 7h a day on research, which I'm convinced is worth it. Now, I'm low GH, I can imagine that later in game, you can more easily get higher wages faster, and keep work and research balanced (typically 4h/d each), in which case personal chef is better. But in my game (GH3 IIRC), research assistant is super usefull and personnal chef is useless. metadata > *Originally posted by **[skid1](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11488191)**:* > How in hell is 700$ food better than assistant? > At 100$/h wage, the cost of personal chef + 2 hours of work compared to fancy cooking is 430$, nearly the same as secretary, which typically gives 4 Personal Chef gives a (2 / 1.25) = 60% bonus vs Yugle campus chef. **But**, what if you're not working at Yugle? What if you're working at Dark Plateau? In that case, your options are either: * Regular Cooking ($30) + Cleaner($50), for the same time time cost as Personal Chef ($700), but with a .9 energy modifier instead of 2. You're saving $620, but you're you're losing _more than half_ of your production. This is extremely inefficient, and only amkes sense if you simply can't afford better. * Fancy Cooking ($70) + Cleaner($50), for the same 2x modifier as Personal Chef, but with one less hour available to you per day. This will often make sense if you can't afford the Personal Chef, since in the early game you're probably have about what 10 hours of free time to allocate? Personal Chef costs $580 more, but gives you one more hour per day, which is probably about 10% more time. So what's worth more to you, $580, or 10% more work/research? At some point, one extra hour per day will absolutely be worth the cost. If it's not worthwhile _yet_ then don't use it. But eventually that $580/day won't seem like so much. > *Originally posted by **[loree](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11475448)**:* > What the fuck. DP CEO is so fucking hard to reach even after 22 GH, quitting this retarted game for good l0l. > You're clearly doing something very wrong. At 20 groundhog resets you should have everything completely on farm and effortlessly getting level 10 Dark Plateau CEO within the first minute or two of a reset if you want to. metadata > *Originally posted by **[LordBucket](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11500671)**:* > > *Originally posted by **[skid1](/forums/930189/topics/840304?page=1#11488191)**:* > > How in hell is 700$ food better than assistant? > > At 100$/h wage, the cost of personal chef + 2 hours of work compared to fancy cooking is 430$, nearly the same as secretary, which typically gives 4 > > Personal Chef gives a (2 / 1.25) = 60% bonus vs Yugle campus chef. **But**, what if you're not working at Yugle? What if you're working at Dark Plateau? In that case, your options are either: > > * Regular Cooking ($30) + Cleaner($50), for the same time time cost as Personal Chef ($700), but with a .9 energy modifier instead of 2. You're saving $620, but you're you're losing _more than half_ of your production. This is extremely inefficient, and only amkes sense if you simply can't afford better. Not more than half of production, food modifier **adds up** with a 0.5 sleep modifier, so it's more like 1.4 vs 2.5, less than half of production, but yeah, the difference is huge, and I usually switch ASAP to fancy cooking. > * Fancy Cooking ($70) + Cleaner($50), for the same 2x modifier as Personal Chef, but with one less hour available to you per day. This will often make sense if you can't afford the Personal Chef, since in the early game you're probably have about what 10 hours of free time to allocate? Personal Chef costs $580 more, but gives you one more hour per day, which is probably about 10% more time. So what's worth more to you, $580, or 10% more work/research? At some point, one extra hour per day will absolutely be worth the cost. > > If it's not worthwhile _yet_ then don't use it. But eventually that $580/day won't seem like so much. May point was not that personal chef is useless or to compare it to other food (sorry on that, I should have said I assumed cleaner, and fancy cooking as default), I use it as soon as possible, my point was that I often find myself hiring a personal secretary first. Even in GH 5-6, when things start getting comfortable I find myself hiring a personal secretary right before hiring a personal chef while rushing toward the high paying yugle CEO job. At this point it no longer matters that much, since it does not last long until you can hire both. But that "one extra hour" (actually two, since I assume cleaner in all cases because I assumed a wage>50$/h, and compare personal chef to fancy food) is less worth the cost than these 4 to 6 bonus hours that a personal secretary gives on a 8h to 12h work day, and there is a (shrinking) period of time when you can't afford both. But actually, I'm making a big deal of a little thing, I wrote my previous post talking about my GH3 IIRC, where I barely ever earned more than 1000$ a day from wages, and nearly as much as interest, and on my GH4 (maybe 5), I unlocked the bilion$ achievement and the gluttony one(don't know if GH3 was poorly managed or if GH4 really profited from the focus on reasearch of GH3, but I really felt a huge gap, also I did not bother w yugle before GH3). So, yeah, experience from previous life will matter a lot a make the time period when you can't afford both chef and assistants rather short. metadata i have 457 years in fast forward time metadata I have 17726 years

