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Ascension and offline

Ascension trades a run for cores, and cores buy tracks that never go away. It is the only reset in act I — and it is a manual gesture, not a button.

When and how

You can ascend once a run reaches 1.00B lifetime energy. Then you have to earn it: 3 crank revolutions charge the ascension, and the charge falls back 12 % per second the moment you stop.

cores = max(1, floor(√(lifetime energy ÷ 1.00B)))

Because it is a square root, waiting for ×4 the threshold doubles your cores, not quadruples them. The question is never "is more better" — it is whether the next hour of this run beats the first hour of the next one.

The six permanent tracks

Cores buy tracks, and tracks survive everything — including act crossings.

Each level costs more than the last: 1 → 2 → 4 → 8 → 16, so 31 cores to max a single track and 186 to max all six.

Offline production

While the game is closed, your machines keep working. Your hand does not.

earnings = machine output × min(time away, cap) × efficiency

You start at a 6 hour cap and 35 % efficiency, and an absence under 60 seconds is ignored entirely.

With every technology and every track maxed, that becomes 24 hours at 60 %. At that point closing the game is a legitimate strategy — which is what an idle game ought to feel like.