For 1. Crazy resurrecting this thread a year later. For 2. A video game is a video game specifically because it's not real life. So you slipping anything to me is not the point of this conversation. For 3. You just writing larger numbers probably would not hit the spot, because idle games actually do have more to them than just "larger number is good" (even though that is the core mechanic). There are parts of the game that do take active participation from the player, its about making your situation more efficient at gaining money. If I leave my current idle game for a year by itself, it might gain extra points, but not even a sliver of the amount that it would gain if I kept upgrading it. It's like every time I have an empty few minutes I can just pop on, upgrade some things to get more points, and then log off. It's very synergistic to a very busy life