

Once this repeatable upgrade has been purchased enough times, a toggle upgrade to revoke the negative effects indefinitely can be purchased at the cost of some cookie multiplier. Once you purchase all of these elder upgrades, a new, repeatable upgrade can be purchased to stop the negative effects from happening for a time. It starts out with negative effects happening about 1/6 of the time after the purchase of One Mind and gets worse later. With the exception of some very rare events that are handled separately, all golden cookie events are equally likely so even with all the elder upgrades purchased, you'll still get positive effects about half the time or more. The game also adds "wrinklers" which are randomly appearing creatures that will lower your CPS, but once destroyed will yield 1.1 times the amount they consumed so that actually makes them a good thing. It also adds a new positive effect that the golden cookies can give as well. This purchase adds the risk of Golden Cookies (the randomly appearing cookies) sometimes having negative effects like losing cookies or temporarily lowering CPS. The "downhill" is part of the fun and the narrative of sorts and the negative effects aren't that bad given the many benefits.Īll of the upgrades to the grandmothers beyond that point are very effective at raising your CPS/grandma by sizable amounts. Having played quite far and having read the source code, I can tell you that yes, you should purchase "One Mind".
