This will be a guide for new tap tycoon players to give you a jumpstart into the game and hopefully, help you with the basics of the game. Furthermore, the general tips section would teach you useful tips on helping you to progress faster.

This guide would answer questions like “Where is my stats? Where to spend my diamonds? Which tech cards are most worth it? How do I catch up with the older players? When do I prestige?” and many more. As such, this post would consist of the following headers.

Game Interface

Prestiging

General Tips

For those looking for a more advanced guide on transforming and worlds, do stay tune because we will be posting about it soon, once we get enough information:D Also, there is a prestiging calculator provided in the prestiging section:D

Game Interface

First time

First off, the game interface. When you first open the game, you will be greeted with a screen asking for your name. After which you are left with a screen with multiple buttons which have no explanation or whatsoever (until you randomly click on the screen and earn $20). There will then be a glove pointing to the tab on the bottom left and after clicking it, you will then be asked to click on the upgrade button. And so on and so forth… My point here? Its not really comprehensive in my opinion.

So over here, we will be explaining where to find the more important things.

Settings

Settings, is on the top left of the screen, in a gear form. Over here, you can do many things and one of which would help you to earn diamonds. First of all, the sound (tapping and all), music (background music only), language, notification and rocket boy and fat cat can be toggled off and on here. These functions can come in handy in saving battery and possibly, saving your money data. Because you will not need to preload advertisements. Secondly, the help function is available here too. This will teach you a little more about the rest of the game. Lastly, the account tab, if you haven’t already created an account, do it now, you can earn up to 100 diamonds and also, in case you do need to switch phones, your progress would be saved and transferable.

Investment Group

The Investment Group is on the upper right hand side of the screen, in a building form. This button enables you to join investment group, fellow players to form a group and to aid one another. Furthermore, investment groups grants bonuses and also, have a function of rumour which helps in predicting the best investment for the day.

Player

The player tab is the red tab on the bottom of the screen with a human face. This tab enables you to upgrade your tap per profit and unlock unlockables. Furthermore, you are able to alter your player name by clicking the small account tab. You can also check your stats in the stats tab, this allows you to track your bonuses and also how much your max net worth etc are. Lastly, there is a skill tab which enables you to check the level of your skills and what your skills do.

Business

The business tab is in blue with a building icon. This tab has only one function, for the purpose of upgrading the businesses. you can also click on each individual business to show when and what the next bonus is.

Tech Cards

The tech cards tab is in green with a light bulb icon. This tab have two functions, checking what tech cards you have and what you don’t, and buying tech cards from a card shop. For a complete list of tech card, kindly refer to our tech card list page Tech card list. Also, recommendations on tech cards would be given below, in the general tip section.

Perks

The perk tab is in orange with a stack of cash icon. This tab of course, as its name suggest, allows you to use perks at the cost of diamonds (not worth in my opinion, they do not grant lasting bonus). The perks are, gaining 24 hour worth of money, resetting skill cooldowns, doubling your profit for 24 hours and the rest are offers to buy diamonds.

*Base of my one-time accident use of the doubling profit for 24 hours, the bonus disappears after prestiging.

Prestiging

Prestiging, one of the most important component of the game to bring you further. But the important questions are, when do you prestige? Is there a chance that you might screw up your prestige? Is it worth to use the 200 diamonds to prestige? When do I get tech cards and does prestiging before you get a tech card affect when i get my next tech card? We will answer these questions right here.

Prestige Bonus

Prestige bonus is the primary function of prestiging, it gives you bonus in order to get back to your former glory at a faster rate, with more ease. So, when do you prestige? There are 2 situations when you prestige. Situation 1 is when your progress is slowing down to a painstaking stage, i.e. when you are earning only millions but all your upgrades are at trillions or even AAs. Situation 2, is if you are able to get back to your former glory in a 30 minute time span or after using the whole array of skills once. When you are able to do so, keep doing it until you are able to have a profit which allows you to reach the next set of upgrades with ease.

Essentially, SHORT runs are the way to go whenever you get stuck and as a general rule of thumb, do not force your way to the next set of upgrades, waiting a whole week just to get the amount, just prestige when you are stuck.DO NOT use the 200 diamonds to restart, diamonds are precious limited resources that should be used to get lasting permanent bonuses like tech cards and shouldn’t be used to screw up your runs. IF you are looking just at prestige bonus, the only way you screw up is by going too far and having too little prestige bonus.

Army sent

SpartanCaliber from reddit has brought to our attention that there were errors in our post previously. It would seem that the 126% rule no longer applies and the troop gained is based on your level, as such, there is no need for the calculator. Furthermore, this would mean that long runs would be useless and prestiging with short runs would be the most beneficial because it allows you to build up your prestige bonus without putting a dent in your troop sent. What this all means is that active players would have the opportunity to progress quickly.

The army sent is a secondary function of prestiging. Whenever you prestige, you gain a certain amount of soldier. For those of you who are more nerdy and wants to know when your soldier increases, it is at every 1.26 times of your previous prestige value and for every soldier thereafter. What this means is that 1 soldier will be given at 1.26 x PP (previous prestige), 2 soldiers at 1.26^2 x PP, 3 soldiers at 1.26^3 x PP. What all these bunch of nonsense means is that, you CAN screw up a run badly if you prestige at 1.25 x PP, because that means that you would not get any soldier and at the same time, increase your PP. Therefore, my personal opinion would be to prestige at at close to your PP if you are doing short runs, and if you are doing long runs, try to prestige as soon as you get a new troop. Here is a prestige calculator to help you all in planning your runs and deciding whether to prestige, just download the excel file by clicking this link –> Prestige calculator. (Do pardon the work being on excel and if you all have any questions/feedback, feel free to share your input in the comment section)

Tech Cards

Tech Cards are given at various checkpoints of your games, when you prestige at a certain amount of worth. This list can be checked in the help section which is in the setting button. Essentially, you have no control over this part of the prestiging and the only time that this matters, is if you are prestiging and is about to get a tech card, you should just press on for it. Apart from that, i would suggest to ignore this section of prestiging.

General Tips

ALWAYS use all your skills together. Use quick cash after business supercharge, and auto tap, cash-stack and midas touch. This is because the skills stack together. When tapping, always put your phone down on a flat surface and use as many finger as you are comfortable with. An average number of taps would be around 600 taps in 30 seconds. There is currently only 1 way to check your number of taps, by doing your investment groups daily challenge. So i encourage you all to contribute to your groups and check out your typing speed. (GUYS share your highest number of taps within 30 seconds below:D it would be good if you upload a photo as proof and lets see who’s the best) Always use fat cat, it is worth it. If you can, use the level 1 skills once, before upgrading it, because by the time you finish upgrading your businesses and doing a slight push, 15 min would have past and you would be able to use your skills again. Link your account to Facebook to get 100 gems. JUST DO IT . Join an investment group so you always get the correct investment in the daily investment. Create a investment group if you must, because you will recover the diamonds quickly, rather than getting a miserly 1 diamond when you get the wrong one. Watch the 5 diamonds advert, it doesn’t come all the time so grab the chance when you can 😀 Do short runs whenever you are stuck. Play mainly on tapping if you want to progress faster, however save your time by playing only when your skills have finished cooldown. PLEASE, do not spend time tapping non-stop when you can achieve a similar result spending 30 seconds. With the new change, active players are rewarded more because you do not need to care about losing troops for doing short runs. Try to collect all the tech cards first. This is extremely important because what people do not realise is that a normal card gives a x2 at level 1 at the cost of 1/5th of a gold card. Take for example, the Barberba gold tech card, it is just equivalent to 3 normal tech cards. In short, collecting all the tech cards first is the best choice. We will be posting a post on the tiers of the various tech cards soon.

Hopefully these Tips help you all out:D and do suggest some games for us to write on, or what to write on at the suggestions page.