Tech cards (UPDATED)

New changes from updates are highlighted in red.

What are tech cards? Tech cards are permanent upgrades that you get when you prestige, contribute to the war or buy using gems (500 gems for 5), furthermore, there is a shop option which allows you to buy tech cards, giving you a new option of 2 normal tech card and 1 gold tech card which refreshes every day. The tech card shop will be further explained below. Tech cards gives bonuses to your player or businesses and helps you to become richer faster.

Types of tech cards

Gold tech cards

Gold tech cards are basically the craziest strongest tech cards that you can get (they come with a gold border too). They give massive bonuses from x0.4 upgrade cost (which makes upgrading dirt cheap) to x2 all profit (making you earn money twice as fast). Also, unlike leader tech cards and normal tech cards, upgraded levels of gold tech cards doubles the effect and becomes exponentially stronger.For the tech cards level multiplier, refer to the multiplier formula provided in tech card level multiplier section.

Leader tech cards

Leader tech cards are tech cards that becomes increasingly stronger with more normal tech cards (but since they are leaders, they have gold borders too). They give bonuses based on the number of tech cards you have for that same business. For example, hole finder will give you a 1.2x bonus for each entertainment tech card that you have(including hole finder itself excluding gold cards).

Normal tech cards

Normal tech cards are tech cards which gives decent bonuses but are generally weaker. Normal tech cards also varies in strength too. The last row of the normal tech cards provide a x3 bonus to the business whereas the 2nd to 4th row provides only x2 bonus to the business. They are also not that good when leveled, because they do not double in strength like gold cards, they increase with a 1.2 multiplier for each level above 1. For the tech cards level multiplier, refer to the multiplier formula provided in tech card level multiplier section.

Tech Card Level Multiplier

This is a list of the tech cards bonuses from level 1 to 4 to show you the difference in strength of the various tech cards

Gold tech cards gain x2 bonus per level: x1.5 profit base: Level 1: x1.5, level 2: x 3, Level 3: x6, Level 4: x12 … x2 profit base: Level 1: x2, Level 2: x 4, Level 3: x8, Level 4: x16 … x0.4 upgrade cost: Level 1: x0.4, Level 2:x 0.2 Level 3: x 0.1, Level 4 x 0.05 …

Leader tech cards gain bonus multiplier per level like Gold tech cards: x1.2 per (business) tech: Level 1: x1.2, Level 2: x2.4, Level 3: x 4.8, Level 4: x9.6 …

Normal tech cards gain x1.2 bonus per level: x2 profit base: Level 1: x2, Level 2: x 2.4 , Level 3: x 2.88 Level 4: x 3.46 … x3 profit base: Level 1: x3, Level 2: x 3.6 , Level 3: x 4.32 Level 4: x 5.18 …

bonus per level:

Do note that the bonuses for Leader tech cards are based on our data and analysis and the help of a fellow reader : Jilum888. We suspect that there is a visual bug whereby the x1.2 is not changed when the level of the card is increased however, the multiplier shows the correct value.

For those of you who are interested in the numbers above level 4, the formula is provided below:

Gold tech card Bonus provided= base multiplier x 2^(level of tech card-1)

Leader tech card Bonus provided= ( 1.5 x 2^(level of tech card-1))x (Number of business tech cards)

Normal Tech card Bonus provided= base multiplier x 1.2^(level of tech card-1)



Tech Card Shop

With the new addition of the tech card shop, players are now given more control over the tech cards that they own. The tech card shop will give you a choice of 2 normal tech card and 1 gold card, selling at 100 and 500 gem respectively. This options will be refreshed daily and tech cards that you do not own will come with a “new” label. However, you will be unable to see the bonuses that the cards provide as everything will be labelled as 1x. (Refer to tech card list on this website to know what you are paying for.)

So how does this tech card shop benefit us?

You can be guaranteed a gold card, although at the cost of 5 random tech card/5 normal tech card. (gold cards are definitely worth more than 5 normal tech because of their x2/x1.5 ALL profit) You can be guaranteed to get 5 new tech cards instead of leveling 5 old tech cards. (new tech cards give raw bonus of x2, whereas levelling only gives x1.5) You can get tech cards that gives x 3 bonus instead of x 2 bonus. (benefit is plain to see)

So time to do some actual planning and spend your gems the right way!:)

Conclusion

From these, we can see that Gold cards, are obviously the most valuable and really worth leveling. However, although tech cards are also gold cards, they are worth it to have, but not worth it to level because leveling another normal tech card would grant the same bonus as having an additional level of the leader tech cards. As for the normal cards, hopefully, you get a x3 multiplier base because it is so much better 🙂

Also, we are considering to put up a list of all the tech cards, do like this post or comment to show your interest in it:)