Universal Paperclips globals.js

Cite as: Universal Paperclips globals.js
Original: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/globals.js
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Version: the version captured 2022-01-06 and 2022-04-02
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Accessed: 2026-10-21
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Credit: Frank Lantz. Capture by the Internet Archive.
Notes: The game's starting values, 182 lines. This version is the latest the Wayback Machine holds (unchanged at the 2 April 2022 capture); a different one was captured in October 2017.

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The first AutoClipper costs $5; with $n$ owned, the next costs ${1.1}^{n} + 5$ dollars. The flat 5 is most of the price until the 18th, when ${1.1}^{17}$ passes 5.	`globals.js L10`	Code
The first MegaClipper costs $500; with $n$ owned, the next costs $1,000 \times {1.07}^{n}$ dollars, so the second costs $1,070.	`globals.js L54`	Code
Marketing starts at $100 and doubles with each level bought.	`globals.js L16`	Code
Clip factories start at 10⁸ clips, and each one built multiplies the next price by a factor that falls: ×10, ×9, … ×4 for the 1st–7th, ×2 for the 8th–12th, ×1.5 for the 13th–19th, ×1.25 for the 20th–38th, ×1.15 for the 39th–78th, and ×1.1 after.	`globals.js L78`	Code
Harvester and Wire Drones are priced by a power of the count, not a ratio: with $n$ owned, the next costs $10^{6} {(n + 1)}^{2.25}$ clips.	`globals.js L79–80`	Code