Yeah, I pretty much echo what's been said here already. It's obvious the devs just want you to pay ridiculous amounts of money to get anywhere, because even paying smaller amounts won't get you. Even with autoclicking overnight/while AFK, constant semi-active play, and the 1000% gold bonus from the cheaper starter pack, it still took me a good 3 days to hit stage 100 for the first time. Progress doesn't just feel slow, it feels almost non-existent at times, and this is in the early game, where the additive upgrades might actually have an effect on your DPS/DPC. I shudder to think of progress in the late game, farming hundreds of thousands of potions over the course of a month in order to give yourself the equivalent of 1% multiplicative DPS...