[opdahl]

I actually finished my first playthrough in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Think I just got lucky with my strategy, but I guess one's focus should be one always upgrading paperclip production until you start having excess materials, and try to keep a balance so input = output as much as possible. But of course, all of this goes out the window on the last stage of the game.

[steveklabnik]

Nice! Yeah, I always found the last stage to be very counterintutive; it's unclear how all of the various things interact and what they should do.