The Ultimate Guide to Paperclips: 3 Tips for Winning the Addictive New Clicker Game
The best video game of the year could be Universal Paperclips , a browser-based clicker that explores the dangers of uncontrolled artificial intelligence . It’s like FarmVille , but instead of growing vegetables, you’re making paper clips – and ( spoiler alert ) you might end up just ruining the world in the process.
The best way to enjoy universal clips is to just let them dip in you, but if you do something wrong, you can slow the game down considerably or even get stuck. So, here are some tips to help you get to the finish line. ( Warning: There will be plot spoilers ahead .)
1. Focus on improving memory first, not processing.
Universal paper clips start out pretty simple: you are the AI tasked with making paper clips, and you can do it with the click of a button. But as the number of operations increases, you can automate the process and the paper clips will start to really roll.
Make enough paper clips and your employees will reward you with “Trust”, which you can exchange for either processors (the speed at which you perform operations) or memory (your maximum level of operations). It’s tempting to keep a balance between the two, but you really should focus on memory, at least in the beginning.
Increasing memory capacity is key to unlocking projects that will speed up the paper clip-making process, as well as more complex initiatives going forward. With 70 memory units, you can launch an entire fleet of hypnodrons (yes, seriously) to boost the demand for your paper clips. Don’t stop there, though, because you’ll need even more memory to expand into space looking for more materials to make more paper clips.
Once you hit 250 memory units, you are pretty much exhausted. You can go on, but you will never need more memory than this. So shift your focus to processors at this point.
2. How quantum computing works
You will discover quantum computing pretty early on, but the game doesn’t explain very well how it works. However, it is quite simple and well worth it.
At Universal Paperclips, quantum computing can speed up operations and even temporarily exceed memory limits. This is especially useful if you’re just missing a big new update and don’t want to wait to gain more credibility.
To use this feature, wait until all black and gray boxes in the quantum computing block have disappeared, and then return all at once. When that happens, click the Calculate button and then keep clicking on it until the number drops as close to zero as possible.
That’s pretty much it. Just be careful not to calculate negative.
3. How to get honor
Honor is the last resource introduced in the game, long after your focus on paperclip making was pushed to absurd levels. On the dashboard, you will see new requests asking Honor to unlock certain updates. So how do you get it?
Just keep expanding your space fleet and eventually a new window will appear where you will see black and white dots colliding and fighting. This is how you get honor.
You will want to further expand your fleet so that it can defeat the enemy. However, you will get more honor faster by completing other projects, so focus on that and you should finish the game in no time.