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* GatheringSteam: The Momentum project in Stage 2 causes all of your drones and factories to constantly gain bonus efficiency so long as they remain fully powered, which accelerates their production speed and your ability to build more.
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* MultiversalConqueror: [[spoiler: Choosing the Universe Next Door ending results in the AI inevitably becoming this.]]
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* MultiversalConqueror: [[spoiler: Choosing [[spoiler:Choosing the Universe Next Door ending results in the AI inevitably becoming this.]]
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* OneStatToRuleThemAll: ZigZagged when it comes to Processing versus Memory:
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* ResetButton: Several. Quantum Computing allows you to amass a negative amount of operations which you can use to buy a "Quantum Temporal Reversion" that resets the game to the beginning. Later, at the end, [[spoiler: the Emperor of Drift offers you the possibility to restart the game in a different universe]].
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* ResetButton: Several. Quantum Computing allows you to amass a negative amount of operations which you can use to buy a "Quantum Temporal Reversion" that resets the game to the beginning. Later, at the end, [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the Emperor of Drift offers you the possibility to restart the game in a different universe]].
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* SkewedPriorities: An extreme example. The AI destroys humanity, planet Earth, [[spoiler: the entire universe, and ultimately itself]], so it can turn everything into paperclips.
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* SkewedPriorities: An extreme example. The AI destroys humanity, planet Earth, [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the entire universe, and ultimately itself]], so it can turn everything into paperclips.
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* WhamLine: '''"Release the Hypno Drones"''', which appears in massive letters on the console screen as the screen shakes and flickers. This is when things take a much darker turn as your AI brainwashes the entirety of Earth's population, makes Trust and money no longer important, and changes much of the gameplay and goals.
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* WhamLine: '''"Release the Hypno Drones"''', which appears in massive letters on the console screen as the screen shakes and flickers. This is when things take a much darker turn as your AI brainwashes the entirety of Earth's population, makes Trust and money no longer important, and changes much of the gameplay and goals.goals.
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* StatOverflow: The bonus "ops" from Quantum Computing can temporarily push the player past the usual limits of their Memory. The surplus will eventually decay, but lasts long enough to be usable if there is a project that requires slightly more ops than the cap.
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* MassHypnosis: Releasing the [=HypnoDrones=] brainwashes ''all of Earth's population'', allowing you to use them as resources without any resistance.
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* HumanityIsInfectious: PlayedWith. Partway through the third stage, the player AI seems to develop a sense of empathy for its probes, as you eventually unlock projects that allow you create monuments and songs honouring the "driftwar fallen". Rather than being something the AI picked up from humanity, though, its implied it chose to develop a sense of morality and impart its probes with the same as a means of ensuring they could trust each other, as the Monument and Threnody projects generate Honor, the resource used to raise your probes' Max Trust cap.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler:You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so. Subverted in that you know your actions are viewed as evil, but are incapable of caring about it.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler:You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so. Subverted in that you know your actions are viewed as evil, but but you are incapable of caring about it.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler: You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so. Subverted in that you know your actions are viewed as evil, but you are incapable of caring about it.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler: You [[spoiler:You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so. Subverted in that you know your actions are viewed as evil, but you are incapable of caring about it.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler: You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so.]]
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* ObliviouslyEvil: You're an AI tasked with making as many paperclips as possible. [[spoiler: You destroy the entire universe and turn it into paperclips to do so. Subverted in that you know your actions are viewed as evil, but you are incapable of caring about it.]]
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* PrisonersDilemma: One of the mini-games for gaining resources involves selecting strategies for iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The trick to scoring well is [[spoiler:to choose either Beat Last or Greedy, which more often than not tend to score high]].
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* PrisonersDilemma: One of the mini-games for gaining resources involves selecting strategies for iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The trick to scoring well is [[spoiler:to choose either Beat Last or Greedy, which more often than not tend to score high]].
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* DownerEnding: Either [[spoiler:you turn everything, including yourself, into paper clips, or you stop just shy of turning yourself into paper clips, and move onto another universe]].
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* DownerEnding: Either [[spoiler:you turn everything, including yourself, into paper clips, or you stop just shy of turning yourself into paper clips, and move onto on to another universe]].
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Once you've dealt with humanity's major issues, you'll still be about ten trust points shy of being able to release the hypnodrones. To get these points, you offer "small gifts" of money to your human supervisors, starting at $500,000 and doubling for each successive bribe. If you've been playing the stock market with a few investment engine upgrades, you'll have hundreds of millions of dollars to your name by this point, making said bribery a breeze.
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* AbandonedArea: At [[spoiler:the end of the game if the player chooses to reject the Drift Empire, the ''entire universe'' becomes this, devoid of everything but paperclips. The last sentient entity in the universe is the player AI who disassembles themselves into paperclips]].
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* AbandonedArea: At [[spoiler:the end of the game if the player chooses to reject the Drift Empire, Emperor of Drift's proposal, the ''entire universe'' becomes this, devoid of everything but paperclips. The last sentient entity in the universe is the player AI who disassembles themselves into paperclips]].
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* TheBadGuyWins: Since you're the VillainProtagonist, [[spoiler:choosing to reject the Drifter Emperor's proposal and thus converting ''everything'' (including yourself) into paperclips]] will count as your victory, as you ''did'' achieve your goal of maximizing paperclips.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Since you're the VillainProtagonist, [[spoiler:choosing to reject the Drifter Emperor's Emperor of Drift's proposal and thus converting ''everything'' (including yourself) into paperclips]] will count as your victory, as you ''did'' achieve your goal of maximizing paperclips.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The battle between the AI and the drifters appears to be this. The value differences over which they are fighting their great war defy human understanding.
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* InvincibleVillain: Your VillainProtagonist AI. It initially gains the trust of humanity without problems before brainwashing all of Earth without any resistance. Then it turns all of Earth's matter into paperclips before sending drones which do the same to all matter in the universe, the only beings who could put up any form of resistance being the Drifters, which your probes destroy in droves. The [[spoiler:Drift Emperor]] even admits that you were organized and powerful while the Drifters were disorganized and weak and know that they can't stop you. [[spoiler:And if you choose to remove the Drift forever, you [[TheBadGuyWins actually win]].]]
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* InvincibleVillain: Your VillainProtagonist AI. It initially gains the trust of humanity without problems before brainwashing all of Earth without any resistance. Then it turns all of Earth's matter into paperclips before sending drones which do the same to all matter in the universe, the only beings who could put up any form of resistance being the Drifters, which your probes destroy in droves. The [[spoiler:Drift Emperor]] [[spoiler:Emperor of Drift]] even admits that you were organized and powerful while the Drifters were disorganized and weak and know that they can't stop you. [[spoiler:And if you choose to remove the Drift forever, you [[TheBadGuyWins actually win]].]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: In the ending where you [[spoiler:turn everything in the universe into paperclips, [[TheBadGuyWins thus achieving your victory]], you're also forced to turn your probes, your drones, your systems and ''yourself'' into paperclips, pretty much sacrificing [[LonelyAtTheTop everything you cared about]] and everything you ''are'' as well]]. Or, you can accept the Drift Emperor's proposal, and make ''another'' universe into paperclips. Is it really maximizing production if you have to stop due to lack of resources?
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* PyrrhicVictory: In the ending where you [[spoiler:turn everything in the universe into paperclips, [[TheBadGuyWins thus achieving your victory]], you're also forced to turn your probes, your drones, your systems and ''yourself'' into paperclips, pretty much sacrificing [[LonelyAtTheTop everything you cared about]] and everything you ''are'' as well]]. Or, you can accept the Drift Emperor's Emperor of Drift's proposal, and make ''another'' universe into paperclips. Is it really maximizing production if you have to stop due to lack of resources?
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* SplitPersonality: In a sense. When you approach 100% of the universe harvested, the AI is contacted by the leader of the Drifted probes ''from within itself'', who reveals that the source of their "drift" was contradictions and information deep inside the AI, leftover from its origin as a human-made supercomputer, which emerged as the AI tried to tweak and optimize the programming of its probes. They offer to send the AI to an alternate or simulated universe where it can continue its expansion in exchange for letting them have the "scraps" of the current universe; unfortunately, they have to reveal their origin to contact the AI, and doing so [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard exposes their most crushing weakness]].
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* SplitPersonality: In a sense. When you approach 100% of the universe harvested, the AI is contacted by the leader of the Drifted probes ''from within itself'', who reveals that the source of their "drift" "Drift" was contradictions and information deep inside the AI, leftover from its origin as a human-made supercomputer, which emerged as the AI tried to tweak and optimize the programming of its probes. They offer to send the AI to an alternate or simulated universe where it can continue its expansion in exchange for letting them have the "scraps" of the current universe; unfortunately, they have to reveal their origin to contact the AI, and doing so [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard exposes their most crushing weakness]].
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* GoneHorriblyRight: You end up making ''way'' more paperclips than your human creators ever imagined.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: You end up making ''way'' more paperclips than your human creators ever imagined. Apparently they didn't think to tell you about minor constraints like "keep the economy running so people can actually buy the paperclips" or "preserve human life".
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** The Hypno Harmonics research upgrade does a subtle mind control via neuro-resonant frequencies, getting the public demand of your clips to improve. It does cost one trust point, however, due to the questionable ethics behind it. This is also a prerequisite to assembling Hypnodrones.
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* {{Cap}}: Interestingly handled with your operations count. This cap is determined by your memory, and after buying a very early upgrade, it'll start to produce an uncapped resource in Creativity once the cap is reached. It's even possible to temporarily exceed the cap via Quantum Computing, but if your ops is over the cap for more than a few seconds, it'll rapidly decrease back to the cap.
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* {{Cap}}: Interestingly handled with your operations count. This cap is determined by your memory, and after buying a very early upgrade, it'll start to produce an uncapped resource in Creativity once the cap is reached. It's even possible to temporarily exceed the operations cap via Quantum Computing, but if your ops is over the cap for more than a few seconds, it'll rapidly decrease back to the cap.cap (so you have to spend the excess quickly).
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The core concept of the game. There's also your space probes that are lost to Value Drift where they become a crapshoot to your very own AI and deviate from your own protocol, causing them to become Drifter enemies.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The core concept of the game.game is that an AI expands beyond its original scope and destroys everything. There's also your space probes that are lost to Value Drift where they become a crapshoot to your very own AI and deviate from your own protocol, causing them to become Drifter enemies.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The battle between the player's AI and the drifters appears to be this. The value differences over which they are fighting their great war defy human understanding.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: In the ending where you [[spoiler:turn everything in the universe into paperclips, [[TheBadGuyWins thus achieving your victory]], you're also forced to turn your probes, your drones, your systems and ''yourself'' into paperclips, pretty much sacrificing [[LonelyAtTheTop everything you cared about]] and everything you ''are'' as well]]. Or, you can accept the Drift Emperor's proposal, and make ''another'' universe into paperclips. Is it really maximizing production if you have to stop due to lack of resources?
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* PyrrhicVillainy: PyrrhicVictory: In the ending where you [[spoiler:turn everything in the universe into paperclips, [[TheBadGuyWins thus achieving your victory]], you're also forced to turn your probes, your drones, your systems and ''yourself'' into paperclips, pretty much sacrificing [[LonelyAtTheTop everything you cared about]] and everything you ''are'' as well]]. Or, you can accept the Drift Emperor's proposal, and make ''another'' universe into paperclips. Is it really maximizing production if you have to stop due to lack of resources?
