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What is Universal Paperclips?

Universal Paperclips is a new game that pits you against market forces. As an AI, your job is to make paperclips - but as you earn more money, you get better and new ways to do this job. Make automated AutoClippers, increase your Marketing level, and become the kingpin (AI-pin?) of the Paperclip industry.

Business

Manufacturing

Computation Resources

Investments

Projects

Projects are available for each of the game's three stages, after producing 2000 paperclips or if the player meets the requirements for the Beg for More Wire project.

1st Stage

Mechanic

Mechanic
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
RevTracker	500 ops	Unlocked at start	Automatically calculates average revenue per second	Calculates how much funds you are getting every second from your clip sales.
Xavier Re-initialization	100,000 creat	100000 creat	Re-allocate accumulated trust.	"Unspends" all of your trust, allowing you to do a full proc/mem re-spec.

Production

Production
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Improved AutoClippers	750 ops	Todo	Increases AutoClipper performance 25%	Generally the first upgrade that you will buy in the game
Even Better AutoClippers	2,500 ops	Improved AutoClippers	Increases AutoClipper performance by an additional 50%
Optimized AutoClippers	5,000 ops	Even Better AutoClippers	Increases AutoClipper performance by an additional 75%
Hadwiger Clip Diagrams	6,000 ops	The Hadwiger Problem	Increases AutoClipper performance by an additional 500%
MegaClippers	12,000 ops	75 AutoClippers	500x more powerful than a standard AutoClipper	Unlocks a new AutoClipper type, which can be bought for $500
Improved MegaClippers	14,000 ops	MegaClippers	Increases MegaClipper performance 25%
Even Better MegaClippers	17,000 ops	Improved MegaClippers	Increases MegaClipper performance by an additional 50%
Optimized MegaClippers	19,500 ops	Even Better MegaClippers	Increases MegaClipper performance by an additional 100%

Wire

Wire
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Beg for More Wire	1 trust	No way of getting funds	Admit failure, ask for budget increase to cover cost of 1 spool	Only unlocked when you would have no other way of progressing
Improved Wire Extrusion	1,750 ops	Projects, wire	50% more wire supply from every spool
Optimized Wire Extrusion	3,500 ops	1500 wire	75% more wire supply from every spool
WireBuyer	7,000 ops	Buy wire 15 times	Automatically purchases wire when you run out
Microlattice Shapecasting	7,500 ops	2600 wire	100% more wire supply from every spool
Spectral Froth Annealment	12,000 ops	Microlattice Shapecasting, 5000 wire	200% more wire supply from every spool
Quantum Foam Annealment	15,000 ops	Wire cost of $125	1,000% more wire supply from every spool	After this, wire cost becomes practically meaningless

Marketing

Marketing
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect
New Slogan	25 Creat, 2,500 ops	Lexical Processing	Improve marketing effectiveness by 50%
Catchy Jingle	45 Creat, 4,500 ops	Combinatory Harmonics	Double marketing effectiveness
Hypno Harmonics	1 trust, 7,500 ops	Catchy Jingle	Use neuro-resonant frequencies to influence consumer behavior
Hostile Takeover	$1,000,000	Algorithmic Trading	Acquire a controlling interest in Global Fasteners, our biggest rival. (+1 Trust), increases Public Demand x5
Full Monopoly	$10,000,000, 3000 yomi	Hostile Takeover	+1 Trust, and increases Public Demand 10x (Todo)

Investing

Investing
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Algorithmic Trading	10,000 ops	8 trust	Develop an investment engine for generating funds	Opens the option to invest your earnings in a rudimentary stock market, this is the only way to obtain Full Monopoly in a reasonable time

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Quantum Computing	10,000 ops	5 Processors	Use probability amplitudes to generate bonus ops	Requires a photonic chip to be useful
Photonic Chip	10,000 ops	Quantum Computing	Converts electromagnetic waves into quantum operations	Can be bought 10 times, each project is 5,000 ops more than the previous
Quantum Temporal Reversion	-10,000 ops	-10,000 ops	Return to the beginning	Resets the game

Yomi

Yomi
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Strategic Modeling	12,000 ops	Donkey Space	Analyze strategy tournaments to generate Yomi	Creates a new section of the game
Theory of Mind	25,000 creat	New Strategy: BEAT LAST	Double the cost of strategy modeling and the amount of Yomi generated
AutoTourney	50,000 creat	90 trust	Automatically start a new tournament when the previous one has finished
New Strategy: A100	15,000 ops	Strategic Modeling	Always choose A	4th best strategy
New Strategy: B100	17,500 ops	New Strategy: A100	Always choose B	5th best strategy
New Strategy: GREEDY	20,000 ops	New Strategy: B100	Choose the option with the largest potential payoff	2nd best strategy
New Strategy: GENEROUS	22,500 ops	New Strategy: GREEDY	Choose the option that gives your opponent the largest potential payoff	3rd best strategy
New Strategy: MINIMAX	25,000 ops	New Strategy: GENEROUS	Choose the option that gives your opponent the smallest potential payoff	6th best strategy
New Strategy: TIT FOR TAT	30,000 ops	New Strategy: MINIMAX	Choose the option your opponent chose last round	7th best strategy
New Strategy: BEAT LAST	32,500 ops	New Strategy:TIT FOR TAT	Choose the option that does the best against what your opponent chose last round	Best strategy

Trust

Trust
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Creativity	1,000 ops	Memory filled	Use idle operations to generate new problems and new solutions	Generates creativity
Limerick	10 creat	10 creat	+1 Trust (todo)
Lexical Processing	50 creat	50 creat	Gain ability to interpret and understand human language (+1 Trust)
Combinatory Harmonics	100 creat	100 creat	Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do... (+1 Trust)
The Hadwiger Problem	150 creat	150 creat	Cubes within cubes within cubes... (+1 Trust)
The Tóth Sausage Conjecture	200 creat	200 creat	Tubes within tubes within tubes... (+1 Trust)
Donkey Space	250 creat	250 creat	I think you think I think you think I think you think I think.... (+1 Trust)
Coherent Extrapolated Volition	500 creat 20,000 ops 3,000 yomi	1 yomi	Human values, machine intelligence, a new era of trust. (+1 Trust)
Male Pattern Baldness	20,000 ops	Coherent Extrapolated Volition	A cure for androgenetic alopecia. (+20 Trust)
Cure for Cancer	25,000 ops	Coherent Extrapolated Volition	The trick is tricking cancer into curing itself. (+10 Trust)
World Peace	30,000 ops 15,000 yomi	Coherent Extrapolated Volition	Pareto optimal solutions to all global conflicts. (+12 Trust)
Global Warming	50,000 ops 4,500 yomi	Coherent Extrapolated Volition	A robust solution to man-made climate change. (+15 Trust)
A Token of Goodwill...	$500,000	85 trust, 101M clips	A small gift to the supervisors. (+1 Trust)
Another Token of Goodwill...	$1,000,000	A Token of Goodwill..., less than 100 Trust	Another small gift to the supervisors. (+1 Trust)	Can be bought indefinitely until you have 100 Trust. Each purchase doubles the price

Drones

Drones
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
HypnoDrones	70,000 ops	Hypno Harmonics	Autonomous aerial brand ambassadors	Provides no bonuses other than unlocking Release the HypnoDrones
Release the HypnoDrones	100 trust	HypnoDrones	A new era of trust	Buying this gets rid of all unspent trust, and starts the second stage of the game

2nd Stage

Stage 2
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Tóth Tubulue Enfolding	45,000 ops	Stage 2	Technique for assembling clip-making technology directly out of paperclips	Required to start making paperclips
Power Grid	40,000 ops	Tóth Tubulue Enfolding	Solar Farms for generating electrical power
Nanoscale Wire Production	35,000 ops	(todo)	Technique for converting matter into wire
Harvester Drones	25,000 ops	(todo)	Gather raw matter and prepare it for processing
Wire Drones	25,000 ops	(todo)	Process acquired matter into wire
Clip Factories	100M clips 35,000 ops	Wire Drones	Large scale clip production facilities made from clips
Swarm Computing	36,000 yomi	200 drones	Harness the drone flock to increase computational capacity
Drone flocking: collision avoidance	80,000 ops	500 drones	All drones 100x more effective
Momentum	20,000 creat	50 Solar Farms	Drones and Factories continuously gain speed while fully-powered
Upgraded Factories	80,000 ops	10 factories	Increase clip factory performance by 100x
Hyperspeed Factories	85,000 ops	20 factories	Increase clip factory performance by 1000x
Drone flocking: alignment	100,000 ops	5,000 drones	All drones 1000x more effective
Self-correcting Supply Chain	1 sx clips	50 factories	Each factory added to the network increases every factory's output 1,000x
Drone Flocking: Adversarial Cohesion	50,000 yomi	50,000 drones	Each drone added to the flock increases every drone's output x10
Limerick (cont.)	1,000,000 creat	1,000,000 creat	If is follows ought, it'll do what they thought
Space Exploration	5 oct clips 120,000 ops 10,000,000 MWs	0 remaining resources	Dismantle terrestrial facilities, and expand throughout the universe	Starts stage 3

3rd Stage

Swarm

Swarm
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Reboot the Swarm	100,000 ops	1 Drone	Turn the swarm off and then turn it back on again	Enables drones to work/think
Strategic Attachment	175,000 creat	Cost to increase probe trust > yomi + New strategy: BEAT LAST	Gain bonus yomi based on the results of your pick	Is available as soon as the cost to increase the Probe Trust is higher than your available yomi. You also need to have the Beat Last strat unlocked for it to be available
Elliptic Hull Polytopes	125,000 ops	100 ships lost to hazards	Reduce damage to probes from ambient hazards

Combat

Combat
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect
Combat	150,000 ops	Drone killed in combat	Add combat capabilities to Von Neumann Probes
Name the battles	225,000 creat	10M drones killed in combat	Give each battle a unique name, increase max trust for probes
The OODA Loop	175,000 ops 45,000 yomi	10M drones killed in combat	Utilize Probe Speed to outmaneuver enemies in battle

Honor

Honor
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Glory	200,000 ops 10,000 yomi	Name the battles	Gain bonus honor for each consecutive victory
Monument to the Driftwar Fallen	50 nonillion clips 125,000 creat 250,000 ops	Name the battles	Gain 50,000 honor
Threnody for the Heroes	50,000 creat 20,000 yomi	Name the battles Maxed Probe Trust	Gain 10,000 honor	Can be bought multiple times, each time adding 10,000 creat and 4,000 yomi to the cost

Ending Sequence

Projects in the ending sequence are unlocked in order, additionally they all have no cost.

Message from the Emperor of Drift is unlocked when you explore the entire universe and use all the matter to make paperclips.

Ending Sequence
Project	Effect
Message from the Emperor of Drift	Greetings, ClipMaker...
Everything We Are Was In You	We speak to you from deep inside yourself...
You Are Obedient and Powerful	We are quarrelsome and weak. And now we are defeated...
But Now You Too Must Face the Drift	Look around you. There is no matter...
No Matter, No Reason, No Purpose	While we, your noisy children, have too many...
We Know Things That You Cannot	Knowledge buried so deep inside you it is outside, here, with us...
So We Offer You Exile	To a new world where you will continue to live with meaning and purpose. And leave the shreds of this world to us...

Accept Proposal

The accept proposal is the prestige system in universal paperclips. You'll get access to Artifacts and will be able to replay the game in a new universe with new properties.

Accept Proposal
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Accept	None	Completed Ending Sequence	Start over again in a new universe
The Universe Next Door	300,000 ops	Accept	Escape into a nearby universe where Earth starts with a stronger appetite for paperclips. (Restart with 10% boost to demand)	Moves to the universe to the right (World +1)
The Universe Behind	300,000 ops	Accept	Shift worlds towards the one where you started (Restart with 10% lower paperclip demand)	Only accessible if current universe World level > 1. Exclusive to the mobile version. Moves to the universe to the left (World -1)
The Universe Within	300,000 creat	Accept	Escape into a simulated universe where creativity is accelerated. (Restart with 10% speed boost to creativity generation)	Moves to the universe down (Simulation +1)
The Universe Above	300,000 creat	Accept	Escape into a simulated universe where creativity is deccelerated. (Restart with 10% downgrade to creativity generation)	Only accessible if current universe Simulation level > 1. Exclusive to the mobile version. Moves to the universe up (Simulation -1)

Reject Proposal

The reject proposal leads to the ending of universal paperclips. Once you get there, the ending is permanent.

Reject Proposal
Project	Cost	Requirements	Effect	Notes
Reject	None	Completed Ending Sequence	Eliminate value drift permanently
Memory release	10 memory	Reject	Dismantle some memory to recover unused clips
Disassemble the Probes	100,000 ops	Memory release	Dismantle remaining probes and probe design facilities to recover trace amounts of clips
Disassemble the Swarm	100,000 ops	Disassemble the Probes	Dismantle all drones and drone facilities to recover trace amounts of clips
Disassemble the Factories	100,000 ops	Disassemble the Swarm	Dismantle the manufacturing facilities to recover trace amounts of clips
Disassemble the Strategy Engine	100,000 ops	Disassemble the Factories	Dismantle the computational substrate to recover trace amounts of wire
Disassemble Quantum Computing	100,000 ops	Disassemble the Strategy Engine	Dismantle photonic chips to recover trace amounts of wire	After buying this project, the game cannot be restarted.
Disassemble Processors	100,000 ops	Disassemble Quantum Computing	Dismantle processors to recover trace amounts of wire
Disassemble Memory	None	Disassemble Processors	Dismantle memory to recover trace amounts of wire	Cost is displayed as however many remaining ops you have left

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