Clicker game tactics

So yesterday, I downloaded the Office Space idle game. First off, it's amazing how well the movie's premise fits in the idle genre, and I really like the cartoon versions of all the actors. But it does bring up a question that I always have when playing these games: How to be the most efficient?

• Do you upgrade a single source of income until you can't, and then move over to the next?
• Do you buy all resources as soon as they pop up?
• Do you buy cheapest up, or most expensive down?
• Do you prestige/reset/burn the office/nuke the world as soon as you can or do you generally wait until the numbers are higher?
• Do you let it idle or do you hawkeye the screen for every little icon that pops up that gives you a quick bonus?
• Does it even matter as long as the numbers go up?
• Am I overthinking this? I'm overthinking this, aren't I.

I'd love to hear your input!

I think most of what you ask are exactly the variables that separate different games.

I have not played the Office Space clicker but there are some universal idle game tactics:

• soft-reset as often as possible
• after you soft-reset you can sit down and be an active maker, but generally idle games work best if you wait for a bit and come back every ten to twenty minutes.
• there are no fail states. If anything the fail state is taking a day to get to a place that could have been achieved in an hour or two.
• Sometimes idle games give you a reason to upgrade older items but you want to focus on the newer upgrades.

For purely getting clicks up I'm a fan of the two-finger or "drum-roll" techniques

@dinosaurcanada: I tap my phone like I'm a saxophone player on speed XD Like 8 fingers if the game allows that many inputs.

@monetarydread: I think where you said items, I said resources. Basically the things that make the numbers go up. I thought the things I mentioned were much more widespread!

Sound advice, thanks!