Prestige

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**Prestige** is a part of the Game Menu that allows players to progress faster.

## **Prestige**

Prestige is a unique form of gameplay in that in order to level up, the player must start over. It sounds counter-productive and a little scary at first, but it allows the player to progress quicker. The answers about when to reset vary based on your current levels of bonuses. If the level clearing times slow down considerably, then it's probably a good time to collect the gold and start over.

* Level Complete Cash Bonus
* Ball Speed Increase
* Ball Power Multiplier
* Unlock VAUS Laser
* Maximum Number of Balls

## **Level Complete Cash Bonus**

Great for speed runs but that's about it. How it works: the percentage (%) bonus is multiplied by whatever level the player just finished, so for example, if the bonus is 3200% and level 369 has been finished, the player would receive $1,180,800. Keep in mind that the percentage is ignored. Its usefulness fades out in the later parts of the game. At max bonus and level 40,000, the bonus is $1,024,000,000 which sounds like a lot, and of course it adds up, but that's relatively small when making upwards of $1-2T/m.

Formulas:
increase=(2^(n-2))\*100%

cost=2^(n+1)

## **Ball Speed Increase**

A useful prestige upgrade and worth the money for increasing the speed of all balls. Faster leveling is more gold. More gold is more prestige. More prestige is more fun.

However, it only goes to 10x so get it leveled up quickly. Keep in mind the maximum speed by default is 40 (or 60 if you have 2, 3 enabled in the skills tab) so it may not be useful upgrading all of their ball's speed.

Formulas:
multiplier=n+1

cost=(5/2)\*2^n

## **Ball Power Multiplier**

One of the most viable upgrades in the game and certainly the most expensive. For the balls, you can see your total power for each one by hovering over the ball in the top left. The Click X and Lasers do not show the total power so if you're curious, you'll have to do the math yourself. Getting your multiplier up is the only way to soar your level into the 10's of thousands with ease and also to defeat the bosses.

Formulas:
multiplier=2^n

Cost=(5/2)\*2^n

## **Unlock VAUS Laser**

Main page: Lasers

The **VAUS Laser**, well, is what it sounds like. A laser. They obliterate bricks. They are also extremely helpful, especially for newer people, as they start with 100 damage, and max out with 10,000 damage. If Ball Power Multiplier is maxed out (which costs 163,835 gold), lasers can do 2,621,440,000 (2.621B) damage. Then, if you spend 15 skill points to remove the bosses' immunity to lasers, you can essentially one-shot most bosses, at least until the bosses have more than 1.31072B health. And anyway, how are you going to get 1,310,715 gold again?

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Formulas:
Cost=n+1)^2+6

=n^2+2n+7

## **Maximum Number of Balls**

A high number of balls is very effective but can also cause lag on certain devices. The main culprit is, of course, the scatter ball. If your system cannot handle the game, you may need to find another game or use the ***numbers only*** mode which may ruin the allure of Idle Breakout. The maximum number of balls is 50 by default.

amount=10n+50

cost=approximately 9.55882 - 10.8916\*n + 7.12006\*n^2 - 1.75671\*n^3 + 0.229811\*n^4 - 0.0142651\*n^5 + 0.00038681\*n^6

otherwise, the cost for the next one is about 1.5 times the previous one.
## Trivia

* The total cost of gold to spend to get every upgrade to max is 2,611,462 gold.