Planet Swapping is an advanced strategy in AdVenture Capitalist, in which you manipulate the game's mission calculator in order to get easy goals for events, thus allowing you to make lots of points in a short span of time through a repetitive task. It works both on the Steam and mobile versions of the game.
How to Planet Swap[]
An example of Planet Swapping.
In order to execute the Planet Swapping strategy you must do the following:
- Finish your current goals but don't claim them.
- Claim investors.
- Leave the event by swapping to a planet (e.g. Earth).
- Re-join the event.
- Claim all goals.
- Repeat.
This becomes more effective as you get more AI, usually becoming extremely viable once you get all unlocks in an event. Some events have a really high AI threshold and likely require the use of a 7 day boost or more in order to make swapping viable, these events being:
Hard Events to Planet Swap in on Mobile:[]
- Cashella (Particularly hard event to PS in)
- Black & Blue Friday
- 1% Land
- Insert Coins to Continue
- New You Resolutions
- Merry Merger
Hard Events to Planet Swap in on Steam:[]
- Cashalot (Hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- New You Resolutions (2nd hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- Cashella (3rd Hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- Insert Coins to Continue (3rd hardest event for planet sapping on steam [Cashella and Insert Coins to Continue are identical, so they have the same goal ceiling])
- Black & Blue Friday (4th hardest event for planet swapping on steam [same goal ceiling as The Excellent Adventure and Profit-a-Bowl but the booster only affecting 1 business makes getting to the goal ceiling harder than those events])
- The Excellent Adventure (5th hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- Profit-A-Bowl (5th hardest event for planet swapping on steam [The Excellent Adventure and Profit-A-Bowl are identical, so they have the same goal ceiling])
- 1% Land (6th hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- Live Rich and Profit (6th hardest event for planet swapping on steam)
- A Nightmare on Easy Street (6th hardest event for planet swapping on steam [1% Land, Live Rich and Profit, and A Nightmare on Easy Street are identical, so they have the same goal ceiling on steam])
How it works[]
Goals are calculated by checking your profits per second, suits, boosts and previously completed goals. By claiming investors you set your profits per second to 0 and by swapping to a planet and re-joining the event you are unloading previous goals, therefore preventing the mission calculator from basing its goals off previous ones. It should be noted that Hyper Hippo developers acknowledge this strategy as 100% valid and legal and it is employed by most, if not all, AdCap top players.
Suit Stripping[]
Planet Swapping is based on an older, less effective strategy called suit stripping, which consists of unequipping your best suit to claim goal and re-equipping it. This strategy becomes more effective the better suits you have and it's still a viable strategy if you are unable to Planet Swap.