This project explores the impact of syncing the Golden Tower Ultimate Weapon (GT UW) with the wave timer.
Theoretical calculations are used to illustrate how Golden Tower cooldown and duration affect coin income, based on the default wave timer which is 26 seconds + 9 second cooldown (without the Wave Accelerator card).
The motivation:
- You might not be lucky enough to get Black Hole early, or
- You might prefer not to get it, since it does not increase survivability.
- Golden Tower Ultimate Weapon
- Wave Skip card (optional)
- Willingness to press the upgrade cooldown button on your Golden Tower
Due to the way Wave Skip works with Golden Tower, it is highly beneficial for Golden Tower to be active during the wave transition period.
- Normally, skipping a wave grants a 1.10% coin bonus.
- If Golden Tower is active during that time, the bonus is multiplied by your GT multiplier.
- This is highly profitable - as I imagine you noticed.
- The analysis suggests the best GT cooldown to wave sync occurs at 280 seconds (8-1 natural sync).
- The next best sync time is 210 seconds (6-1 natural sync). There is one in-between time of 245 seconds (7-1), but this needs a legendary submodule effect.
- However, if you have enough stones for 210s cooldown, they might be better invested in acquiring the Black Hole instead.
- The next best option is to increase the Golden Tower duration to 36 seconds, which allows Golden Tower to remain active over two wave skip opportunities. This is huge.
This is a theoretical calculation meant to guide optimization strategies. Actual results may vary depending on your build and luck during a run.
The Golden Tower duration table starts at 28 seconds, as that was the value I had when I began this research. You can easily adjust this in the code.