FAQ

### **What is the best Store Pack?**

"Disable Ads" is by far the best pack. Removing all ads is great and it allows a much easier gem claim from the offers.
"Disable Ads" > "Epic" > "Starter" (goes on -50% sale sometimes) > "Prestige 2x" (only on sale once a month) > Gem packs

## **Cards**

### **Should I buy more cards or another card slot?**

Do you have good cards available that you can't equip? Get a card slot. Yes, they are expensive, but it's far better to have all the useful level 1-2 cards than only a few higher level cards.
Try to aim for 10 card slots, that should be enough to slot all the most important cards. Then you can get all your cards to level 6.

### **How many gems are needed to max out all the cards?**

1 card to level 6 is 980 gems. All 19 cards will cost 18,620 gems.
All card slots is 9,900 gems.
Total cost is 28,520 gems.

### **What are the best cards?**

Always really good > Ball Speed, Splash Radius, Bomb Brick, Stage Skip.
Also good > Ball Power, Catalyst, Ball Specialization, Shield Penetration, Quality Control, Assassin Ball, Noxious Fumes.
Cash cards at the start of the run, usually swapped for damage cards later > Cash Brick Bonus, Stage Bonus, Brick Cash, Cash Brick Chance, Passive Income.

## **Prestige**

### **How are Prestige Tokens calculated?**

You get Tokens based on your amount of World Value during this world (since last prestige).
At $10 million World Value you receive 10 Tokens.
At $17 million World Value you receive 11 Tokens.
At $350 million World Value you receive 20 Tokens.
This goes on in a sort of exponential curve.

### **What is World Value?**

World Value is the sum of all cash earned during this world (since last prestige). Spending cash has no influence on World Value.

### **When do I prestige?**

Most efficient will always be as soon as possible, the moment you hit $10m World Value.
Another good option is to wait a few minutes for the first ad (takes 5-6mins). That gives you a chance on the gem ad before you prestige again.

### **What prestige badges do I upgrade first?**

Pretty much whatever is cheapest is usually a good upgrade.
Buying new badges gives a good boost, so prioritize that whenever it is affordable.
Any "Idle..." or "Golden..." badge is completely useless. They won't affect your gameplay at all. There aren't any new badges after the 2 "Golden..." badges.
Eventually "Black Hole" becomes affordable, prioritize that over other badges. This requires 2,569 tokens to even unlock at level 1.

### **How much prestige do I need?**

It's recommended to have at least a few million prestige tokens. If you are dedicated you could max the Ball Power badge (10m tokens), but more than that won't give you any meaningful returns.

### **When should I stop upgrading the Prestige Reward Badge?**

Somewhere between level 30-35. It gets too expensive for its return on investment.

### **What is Instant Prestige?**

When Passive Income gives more than $10m cash on level 1 and it allows you to "Instantly" prestige (after the 1 second interval from Passive Income).

### **When are you able to Instant Prestige?**

Without packs: Cards Lv.5, Prestige badge Lv.~35.
With packs: Cards Lv.3, Prestige badge Lv.~25.

## **Balls**

### **How does unlocking balls work?**

Random 2 options from the at that point available balls. See Balls

### **What are the best balls?**

Poison is by far the best. You will always need that.
New player: Sword is needed to deal any damage to shield bricks.
After playing a few weeks/months: Poison > Lightning/Cash (Tournament/Challenge) > Demo > Sword > Pierce/Splash > ...

### **Does it matter in what slot I choose a ball?**

Yes, later slots have a higher cost, which results in less upgrades able to be bought.
But later slots also have higher base power stats, which makes the balls usually have a much higher power stat than earlier balls.
Exceptions are Poison and Cash ball, their power stats do not scale well. A later slot for Poison or Cash is always worse.
This also means that you want the worst balls picked up as early as possible, because it allows the good balls a higher chance to show up in the better slots.

### **My Lightning ball does not do any damage, but visually it clears everything.**

Lightning (and Fire and the cards) has a damage value in your Statistics page for the damage done by the effects. Click the gear icon (settings) and then go to Stats to see the real damage that Lightning has done.

### **What is the purple button on the speed Lv. 40/80 upgrade?**

This is a ball prestige. This increases power by 5, but reduces speed by 60% (x0.4).
This shows up for each ball at speed levels 40 and 80 and only affects that ball.

### **When should I prestige a ball?**

This requires experience. Every ball order and perks and cards/prestige is different.
Usually it is worth it when you are lacking a lot of power and the speed loss won't make your balls too slow.
Poison and Demo Enrage helps a lot with the speed loss and generally makes it worth it to prestige.
(In case of Cash Ball, in a Cash Farm it is always worth it to prestige.

### **What is a Cash Farm?**

When you purposefully stay in a single stage and only run Cash balls. The goal is to get Cash balls "stuck" in a very small space between a Hex brick and something else. It will bounce back and forth so fast in such a small space that it generates 100x-1000x more cash than you previously got from stage bonuses.
This is extremely useful for challenges and in some cases also useful for a cash influx when you need a bit more cash for a late Poison/Lightning ball.

### **What stage is used for a Cash Farm?**

The best map is the 6 Hex map where the Hexes are surrounded by Green bricks. The idea is to reset the map (force close the app) and only use Noxious Fumes to poison some bricks, which allows a damage ball to only hit a few and poke some holes in the Green bricks until the Hexes are exposed.
Other possibilities are the 3 Hex map with 4 columns of Blue bricks (requires no poking holes) or the 3 Hex diamond shaped Green bricks map with some Blue bricks at the bottom.

## **Perks**

### **What are the best perks?**

S - Ball Speed
A - Ball Power
B - Perk level requirement
C - Upgrade costs (power, speed, ball)
D - Stage Bonus and Cash Brick Value
bad luck - Max Balls or Prestige Bonus
Never pick - Cash Brick Chance (this causes slightly less Bomb Bricks to spawn)

### **Do the perks have a maximum value?**

Ball Speed x4.00 (16)
Ball Power No
Perk -60% (3)
Upgrade costs -60% (3)
SB/CBV No
Max Balls +50 (10)
Prestige Bonus No
CBC +20% (10)

## **Bricks**

### **What do shield bricks do?**

They reduce damage dealt by 99.80%. That is 1/500th or x0.002.
This can be improved with Shield Penetration card, for up to 20x bonus, which results in 96% reduced damage. That is 1/25th or x0.04.
Sword balls however, hit shield bricks for normal damage.

### **What are Cash Bricks?**

They are bricks with a '$' icon on them. They have the same exact health as normal bricks, but their cash value is multiplied by both the normal "Brick Cash" and the "Cash Brick Bonus". Normal bricks are only multiplied by "Brick Cash".

### **How is Stage Bonus calculated?**

Stage Bonus is the sum of all the brick values on the current stage. This includes multipliers of Brick Cash, Cash Brick Bonus, Stage Bonus and All Cash Multiplier (from store packs).
It does not include "Golden stages", those only increase cash from destroying bricks.

### **Why does brick health go up in massive jumps at certain levels?**

These are called "Health multipliers". At levels 75, 100, 150, and a lot more, brick health gets an additional multiplier. This makes it more difficult to destroy bricks, but also greatly increases cash generation from Stage Bonus and Cash balls.
The last health jump is at level 200,000.
See Bricks

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At Lv.75 its 1.2. At Lv.100 its 1.2\*1.25. Etc.

## **Challenges**

### **When are challenges?**

After you completed and claimed your last challenge, a 72 hour timer will start counting down in your Statistics page in the menu.

### **If I end my challenge early, will I get rewards?**

Yes, you are encouraged to end the challenge early when you believe you won't reach the next reward tier in time.

### **How do I get to the next tier in the challenge?**

The tiers are based on World Value. This is the sum of all cash earned during the quest. Spending cash has no influence on World Value.

### **What are Challenge Badges?**

These boost your ball's power value by 20% each. When you have multiple the boost is x(1 + (# \* 0.2).
Challenge Badges are received from Tournaments and Challenges.

## **Tournaments**

### **When are tournaments?**

Join window opens up Wednesday & Saturday at midnight UTC.

### **If I end the tournament early, will I get rewards?**

When you Retire from the tournament, your score is frozen, but everyone else can still improve theirs. That means someone else can still pass you.
You will only receive rewards after the timer has reached 0.
Retiring can help you get back to farming earlier, but be careful in using it, because it can make you end up on a lower rank than you were.

### **Do I have to join at the start?**

No, your 24 hour time starts at the moment you join the tournament. Even if you join a minute before the window closes, you will have 24 hours to compete.

### **What are Challenge Badges?**

These boost your ball's power value by 20% each. When you have multiple the boost is x(1 + (# \* 0.2).
Challenge Badges are received from Tournaments and Challenges.

### **How can I change my nickname?**

Before you click the Join button on the tournament, you have an option to edit your name at the bottom of the popup window.

### **Why are rewards in Gold Tier only up to rank 40?**

Because brackets only hold up to 40 players in Gold.
And up to 20 players in Platinum.

## **Skills Tree**

### **How do I earn Stars/SP?**

You can only earn these in Tournaments. Up to 5 in copper, but up to 30 in Platinum.

### **What do I spend SP on?**

Mainly Poison and Lightning, but Demo has a cheap Enrage first buy, which is good too.

Poison Enrage 1 costs 34 SP to path to and buy, Demo enrage 1 is 5 SP and Lightning is super expensive, but an extremely good upgrade. Another good option is Sword Shield Remove, that costs 102 SP to path to and buy.