Prestige

**Prestige** is a progression system that allows for the obtainment of powerful, permanent boosts to your bock earnings (referred to as 'earnings bonus'). The mechanic is unlocked as soon as you obtain a Soul Egg from any source, including Challenges and the Daily Gift Calendar.

Prestiging restarts your farm's chicken population, common research, habitats, silos, vehicles and resets your egg to Edible. Your permit, Epic Research, the Hyperloop Station, Golden Eggs, Piggy Bank level and Golden Eggs, boosts, Mystical Eggs and owned Artifacts are all preserved. In turn, you gain a certain amount of Soul Eggs, depending on the earnings made before prestiging. Each Soul Egg costs an increasing amount than the last, essentially meaning that more earnings equals more SEs; see Soul Egg#Obtaining for a more in-depth explanation.

## Strategy

Beyond the first 50 SEs, different prestige strategies exist. However, a general rule of thumb is, if the game is slowing down and you have no goals that require staying on the current egg, then it's time to prestige.

The percentage gain of SEs compared to your total becomes lower with each prestige. There are several ways to counteract the diminishing returns, such as focusing on finishing Epic Research (especially Soul Food and Prophecy Bonus) and performing multistiges.

### Single Prestige

A single prestige, or singlestiging, is where you prestige once with the same set of boosts. Because Soul Egg gain is based on your earnings, more chickens equals higher egg laying rate, which equals higher bock earnings (assuming you can ship all the eggs being laid), thus more SEs. Early to mid game, the recommended prestige strategy is as follows:

1. Buy as much research as possible.
2. Reach as high of a hab capacity as you can.
3. Wait for population growth. The Epic Internal Hatcheries and Internal Hatchery Calm Epic Researches greatly help with this, but are expensive(~200K GE to max). While waiting, use some cheap boosts while running chickens to help purchase additional research and habs.
4. When your habs are almost full, activate your best Artifacts that increase either bock or SE earnings. Then run chickens with your best versions of the Soul Beacon, Bird Feed and Boost Beacon boosts. See the Preloaded single prestige section for the recommended boost type combinations, then adjust according to which permit you own and the best versions of those boosts you have available.

### Preloaded Single Prestige

Upon unlocking the Universe Egg, a common prestige strategy that is very powerful up into the hundred q's of SEs is called 'single prestige preloading', 'singlestige preloading' or simply 'preloading'. This is where you fill your habs to at least 7.5 billion chickens (preferably 11.3 billion) with a Legendary Tachyon Prism and an Epic Boost Beacon (going off-farm for the duration of the boosts to utilise Internal Hatchery Calm), saving just a bit of hab space (e.g. not purchasing the final level of a hab space research) and then running chickens with bock and SE earnings boosts.

This strategy requires several Epic Researches to be maxed, including Epic Hatchery, Epic Internal Hatcheries, Internal Hatchery Calm and a few levels of Transportation Lobbyists. Prestige Bonus also immensely helps. Preloading on Universe also requires the Hyperloop Station and enough Hyperloop Trains to ship all eggs being delivered.

Preloads are the most SE efficient prestige strategy, although they are not as time nor GE efficient as multistiges (see the Multiple prestige section).

Preloads are also the primary prestige strategy for those with the Standard Permit, as multistiges cannot be performed due to the limited boost slots.

To some extent, preloading can be used on lower eggs, but depending on the amount of Golden Eggs available, it may be prudent to consider less expensive versions of the boosts. See the Single prestige section for additional information on this.

The type of boosts used depends on whether or not you own the Pro Permit. For those with it, these are:

**Most SE gain, least GE efficient**:

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 115,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 92,000 GE

**Average SE gain, most GE efficient**:

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 75,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 60,000 GE

A second Boost Beacon is better than two of either a Bird Feed or Soul Beacon, since it increases the multiplier to everything else *and* boosts the other Boost Beacon.*[clarification needed]*

For those without the Pro Permit, the most common boost combination is as follows:

**Chicken running:**

* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 12,500 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 10,000 GE

The recommended Artifacts for this strategy are your best versions of the Phoenix Feather and either Demeters Necklace or Tungsten Ankh, depending on which is better. With a sufficient amount of Eggs of Prophecy, the non-feather item can be replaced with a Book of Basan.*[clarification needed]*

This strategy is used for simply running chickens, then prestiging when the boosts run out.

Although the Legendary Boost Beacon has the same effect as its equivalent Bird Feed, the latter is much cheaper. However, the Legendary Boost Beacon can be used instead when hunting drones while running chickens instead of running chickens by themselves; see the Drone Farming section for additional information.

An alternate preload strategy is purchasing all hab capacity researches, then calculating the amount of time needed to go offline to take advantage of Internal Hatchery Calm in accordance with IHR, active Artifacts (most notably a Chalice and Dilithium Monocle, as well as Life Stones) and how much time one needs to run chickens. This strategy yields slightly more SEs, but at a greater cost of completely filling one's habs and losing the running chicken bonus. It is, therefore, recommended to use the much safer, normal preload strategy of saving a hab capacity research level.

### Drone Farming

Drone farming is where you first preload your habs, then run chickens with a certain boost combination to maximise drone bock rewards. This strategy yields approximately double the SEs, but at a greater cost. It can also be used during a Generous Drones event, and then prestige during a Prestige Event for even more SEs. Although this strategy can be used by owners of either permit, it is more commonly used by Standard Permit players due to being unable to use All-in-Ones or multistiges.

For those with the Standard Permit, the boost combination is:

* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 60,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 48,000 GE

The recommended Artifacts for the Standard Permit are your best versions of the Phoenix Feather and an Aurelian Brooch. Having a Dilithium Stone-boosted boost duration (see the Multiple Prestige section's multistige strategies pertaining to Dilithium Stones) also helps negate the low frequency of elite drones and the base 3:7 GE:bock ratio for drones, especially due to the limited Artifact slots.

Additionally, slot as many Terra Stones as possible. This is due to Terra Stones increasing your maximum running chicken bonus (RCB), increasing your farm value (assuming the Epic Clucking ER has been purchased) and, because drone rewards are based on farm value, they'll become more valuable, thus yielding more SEs.

The Standard Permit version of the drone strategy is more ideal for high earnings bonus farmers (S% range or higher) due to the increase in farm value compared to lower earnings bonus farmers.*[clarification needed]*

As for boost combinations with the Pro Permit, there are three:

**GE efficiency:**

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 75,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 60,000 GE

**GE/SE efficiency:**

* 1x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 122,500 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 98,000 GE

**SE efficiency:**

* 2x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 3x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 170,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 136,000 GE

The recommended Artifact set for the Pro Permit is your best version of the Phoenix Feather, Mercury's Lens, Neodymium Medallion and an Aurelian Brooch. Additionally, follow the same Standard Permit guideline for both Dilithium Stones, to gain additional time to hunt elite drones, and Terra Stones, for increased SE gains.

### All-in-One

All-in-Ones (AiOs) are a combination between a singlestige, preload and multistige. It is a singlestige strategy designed for time efficiency. This strategy is about starting on Universe (or your highest unlocked egg) with as much Common Research done as possible, then running chickens with the following boost combination. Note that you must cancel the Tachyon Prism before your habs are full.

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 77,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 61,600 GE

Due to the number of boost slots needed, AiOs are only doable for Pro Permit owners.

This strategy is also a good choice for those learning to multistige, due to using the same set of boosts for a prestige. When you reach an earnings bonus of approximately 100Q%, consider trying a duostige; see the Multiple Prestige section for more detail.

### Multiple Prestige

Multiple prestige, or multistiging, is a late game prestige strategy for high earnings bonus farmers (100Q%+). It is a strategy exclusive to Pro Permit owners. The strategy is designed for the most SE gain using the least amount of GE and time by using the same set of boosts for two or more prestige runs. This graph displays the Soul Egg percentage gain according to population, in billions:

Note that this graph was created prior to the Artifacts Update, hence why the maximum population is displayed as about 11.34B (11.5B). Regardless, it is not worth equipping a gusset in any case but a preload with the Pro Permit.

The recommended Artifact set for multistiges is your best versions of the Phoenix Feather, Demeters Necklace and Tungsten Ankh. The fourth item is usually a Dilithium Monocle, but becomes a Collectors Book of Basan at 93 Eggs of Prophecy, and a Fortified Book of Basan at 63. The fourth item can also be a Vial of Martian Dust, especially when hunting drones in a preload.

There are several variants of multistiges, although the most basic one is known as a 'duostige'. This video (accurate as of early February 2021) explains the basics of duostiging:

Different levels of 'stiges' (examples: tristige for 3 prestiges, quadstige for 4 and octostige for 8) require different earnings bonuses and boost duration increases (from either Dilithium Stones and/or the Longer Boosts event). Another multistiging tutorial (accurate as of late May 2021), designed for quadstiges, is attached below:

A key component of multistiges is the Hold to Research Epic Research, as this allows for the rapid purchasing of research. Another key component is the Hyperloop Station, due to the amount of eggs being laid with several billion chickens. At 7T eggs/minute per Hyperloop Train, between 4 and 6 trains are needed*[verification needed]*, depending on chicken population. Three major multistige strategies are:

1. Setting Dilithium Stones in artifacts with preferably 2 (most epics/some legendaries) or 3 (most legendaries) stone slots, then activating the boosts for a longer duration. Not only can Artifacts be dragged into the activation slots (provided it's not a lower or equal tier version of the same artifact), but this can be done with multiple Artifacts simultaneously, saving several seconds.
	1. The maximum Dilithium Stone boost duration increase is 2.51817x, or a 10-minute boost becoming 25 minutes and 10.902 seconds. This requires 12 T4 Dilithium Stones slotted into four three-slot legendaries.
	2. This strategy can also be used during a Longer Boosts event, upgrading to Enlightenment to pause the boosts and then prestiging to take advantage of those old, yet much longer, boosts. This can allow for boosts with a base duration of 10 minutes to become up to 50 minutes and 21 seconds, greatly increasing GE efficiency and making the multistige session a lot easier.
2. 'Blindjumping' (upgrading an egg without any chickens or research) as many times as possible while performing actions like running chickens, purchasing research and even another blindjump during the black screen. This saves a lot of time, allowing for an extra stige or two to be added to the multi.
3. Double tapping on the 'purchase new vehicle'*[verification needed]* button allows for rapidly purchasing two or more Hyperloop Trains. However, this isn't as reliable on iOS as it is on Android.*[clarification needed]*

Multistige boost combinations vary depending on one's earnings bonus, boost duration, desired chicken count (this is usually always between 3B and 6.5B for the highest SE/time ratio) and the desired number of prestiges per boost set. For a duostige, assuming 5 minutes in-between each prestige (the base of 10 minutes for almost every best version of boosts, divided in two for two prestiges), this is as follows:

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 77,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 61,600 GE

With adjustments in boost duration, chicken count and earnings bonus, this combination can be adapted for a tristige.

Although this strategy isn't as GE efficient as the following ones, it is the recommended combination for trying out a multistige.

Quick overview of the SE/GE efficiency of this strategy:

* SE: Average
* GE: Low

**3+ prestiges:**

* 2x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 77,000 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 61,600 GE

The same duostige combination also works best for 3+ prestiges, although it requires a higher boost duration increase. This strategy is recommended for those in the 's' earnings bonus range or higher. For 5 prestiges and above, the recommended earnings bonus is in the 'S' range.

Due to the lack of a second Boost Beacon for additional time after reaching the chicken count, resulting in the need for an extreme amount of Dilithium Stones, using this strategy for 5 or more prestiges is not recommended over the variant detailed below. However, it can still be used by utilising a Longer Boosts event, so as to conserve GE.

Quick overview of the SE/GE efficiency of this strategy:

* SE: Average
* GE: High

**3+ prestiges:**

* 1x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 10 minutes)
* 2x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 124,500 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 99,600 GE

Variant of the original 3+ prestiges combination, recommended for higher SE gain and additional time after reaching the chicken count. Same recommended earnings bonus.

Quick overview of the SE/GE efficiency of this strategy:

* SE: High
* GE: Low

**3+ prestiges:**

* 1x Jimbo's Best Bird Feed (50x Bocks for 10 minutes)
* 1x Legendary Soul Beacon (500x SEs for 10 minutes)
* 1x Supreme Tachyon Prism (1000x IHR for 1 hour)
* 2x Legendary Boost Beacon (50x all boosts for 10 minutes)

Undiscounted cost: 137,500 GE
Buy 5 (20% discount) cost: 110,000 GE

Variant of the original 3+ prestiges combination, recommended for longer multistige sessions with higher SE gain and additional time after reaching the chicken count. Same recommended Earnings Bonus.

This strategy becomes much more GE efficient when using the Supreme Tachyon Prism for two or more multistiges, as the boost lasts for a base of one hour.

Additionally, alongside a Supreme Tachyon Prism, the 10 minute Jimbo's Best Bird Feed can be replaced with its 1 hour version to conserve GE. The efficiency of this replacement goes up to two times when the full hour is used.

Quick overview of the SE/GE efficiency of this strategy:

* SE: High
* GE: High

## Trivia

* The Standard Permit version of the drone strategy was created by Gruttan#3172 (469185182172446740) in the main Discord server.
* The unclaimed Soul Eggs multiplier displayed on the prestige screen was added in Version 1.22.3.