2026 GachaDex containment thread

[Grogzilla]

@Grogzilla slowly making his way back up after spending all this DexCoins.

I have no reason to earn coins now. Maybe I'll try to crack top 10 again? Idk, we'll find out

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

Maybe I'll try to crack top 10 again? Idk, we'll find out

wait a second, i'm in the top 10

 

[Grogzilla]

wait a second, i'm in the top 10

I'm starting to think you have a crush on me

 

[Angry_Panda]

I'm starting to think you have a crush on me

Grog and Bigtit sittin' in a tree
G-A-C-H-I-N-G....

 

[BakedBanana]

Grog and Bigtit sittin' in a tree
G-A-C-H-I-N-G....

As long as he's not fraternizing with the enemy then it's okay. Carry on.

 

[ssj4maiko]

lol i still have no idea how y'all earn coins so fast.

I do wonder about the same thing.

If this image is true:

Creating a script to edit a chapter(like just changing the title), could maybe do the trick, but from my calculations considering the cooldown, it doesn't do much. the list could also be outdated, or it could also have extra bonuses to supporters, contributors, or insiders.

I have reasons to believe that either the cooldown doesn't work, or works in a different way than what I would expect.

In last year's Gachadex, it was possible to get super rare gems that, from what I remember, would give 50K coins, and they weren't super rare like now, so it was quite possible to just drawing and you would constantly go up, but since this year it's a team game, that was changed.

But yeah, considering the values and limitations, reaching 1 million in 1 less than a week feels kinda impossible normally.

If you do the editing chapter, create a script to change a letter every single exact minute, you could get 72000 per day, that's half a million after an entire week (And I saw people getting million in 1 or 2 days).

If we add a script to clicking ads every 5s, that's "86400" per day, or 604800 per week.

Well, I suppose if you make a script that does one of each all at the same time, it may be possible.

 

[Angry_Panda]

In last year's Gachadex, it was possible to get super rare gems that, from what I remember, would give 50K coins, and they weren't super rare like now, so it was quite possible to just drawing and you would constantly go up, but since this year it's a team game, that was changed.

Last year (and in the initial Canary beta from this year) it was quite easy to start racking up coins on 10-rolls, since the 50K+ card came up pretty frequently. This is after essentially one longish afternoon of manual idle clicking during video calls I really didn't need to be on (because my job is sometimes dumb like that):

Bart fixed this, however, and it's basically impossible to see a net gain from 10-rolls now. From what he said, it sounded like some folks were sending requests directly to pack their coins rather than using the site to earn coins.

 

[BestBoy]

reaching 1 million in 1 less than a week feels kinda impossible normally.

Even with clicking ads, rating manga, updating my list, and increased chapter reading, I was lucky to get 1600 in a week. I can only come to the conclusion that I was playing a game with completely different rules than everyone else, or folks were gaming the system big time.

And if they were gaming the system, I'm surprised no one shared the strategy.

 

[Mangamoz]

Even with clicking ads, rating manga, updating my list, and increased chapter reading, I was lucky to get 1600 in a week. I can only come to the conclusion that I was playing a game with completely different rules than everyone else, or folks were gaming the system big time.

And if they were gaming the system, I'm surprised no one shared the strategy.

According to the mods, they are constantly catching cheaters messing up stuff.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

according to the cooldowns i tested for the live (not the Canary) version of GachaDex:

DexCoin activities:

Reading a chapter = 35 DexCoins, 40s cooldown

Rating a title = 10 DexCoins, 30s cooldown

Updating a title in your Library = 10 DexCoins, 15s cooldown

Clicking an ad = 15 DexCoins, 5s cooldown

Spoiler: Notes

-Reading a chapter: i can't seem to prompt another 'read a chapter' action from moving from one chapter to another while in the reader. (in other words, if you are farming this, you may need to exit the reader and then click a chapter to get another 35 DexCoins).

-Rating a title: the 'rate a title' action can be prompted by changing any rating value to any other rating value (i.e. you do not need to change a title's rating from [no rating] to [number rating] to receive the 10 DexCoins)

-Clicking an ad: right-clicking an ad and opening the link in a new tab/window may not prompt the 'click on ad' action

not including the C*ntributor only DexCoin earning options:

35 DexCoins every 40s = 0.875 DexCoins per second
10 DexCoins every 30s = 0.333 DexCoins per second
10 Dexcoins every 15s = 0.667 DexCoins per second
15 DexCoins every 5s = 3 DexCoins per second

so even if you maximized efficiency (be it with one script that managed to do all of these in near perfect time or with 2+ scripts running in separate windows), you could get 4.875 DexCoins per second at best, which would be 17,550 per hour, or 421,200 per day. though i imagine anyone coming even close to this rate has already been the victim of mod intervention.

if any of my math is wrong, please laugh at me. i deserve it

 

[BestBoy]

victim of mod intervention.

So the question becomes, "how did y'all even break 500k?" It does not seem to be something manually feasible.

You're up first Mr. Tiddy. Spill the beans.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Creating a script to edit a chapter(like just changing the title), could maybe do the trick, but from my calculations considering the cooldown, it doesn't do much. the list could also be outdated, or it could also have extra bonuses to supporters, contributors, or insiders.

It was a typo, chapter edits don't give coins.
On the other hand, the list is indeed outdated, and contributors have extra special event types they can trigger (as well as special missions) that give bonus rewards to either themselves, their team or the entire userbase.

In last year's Gachadex, it was possible to get super rare gems that, from what I remember, would give 50K coins, and they weren't super rare like now, so it was quite possible to just drawing and you would constantly go up, but since this year it's a team game, that was changed.

Coin "cards" have a range from 10 to 10000 coins as of right now (on top of the base coin rewards for pulls).

If you do the editing chapter, create a script to change a letter every single exact minute, you could get 72000 per day, that's half a million after an entire week (And I saw people getting million in 1 or 2 days).

If we add a script to clicking ads every 5s, that's "86400" per day, or 604800 per week.

Well, I suppose if you make a script that does one of each all at the same time, it may be possible.

Please don't do that, you'll just get banned from the event... (it's easy to detect, even with random delays added).

Even with clicking ads, rating manga, updating my list, and increased chapter reading, I was lucky to get 1600 in a week. I can only come to the conclusion that I was playing a game with completely different rules than everyone else, or folks were gaming the system big time.

And if they were gaming the system, I'm surprised no one shared the strategy.

I recommend simply using the site as usual, even more this next weekend (will share why soon)

According to the mods, they are constantly catching cheaters messing up stuff.

There are currently 11 not so intelligent lifeforms that got blacklisted due to cheating, and I'm currently working on new detection layers to make the event as fair as possible for everyone.


As a sidenote, defectors also have special missions that give interesting rewards, so you might want to consider the idea...

 

[ssj4maiko]

Coin "cards" have a range from 10 to 10000 coins as of right now (on top of the base coin rewards for pulls).

I had been wondering about the max coin pulls, and just as soon as I read that, and did a 10x gacha... I get a 7 stars Coin pull of 9670 coins...

And I still only have 4 6 stars and no 7 stars.

When I get a coin pull rather than the rare card itself... It's depressing.

Rarity 1: 28/28 100.00%
Rarity 2: 37/37 100.00%
Rarity 3: 64/83 77.11%
Rarity 4: 41/41 100.00%
Rarity 5: 24/27 88.89%
Rarity 6: 4/19 21.05%
Rarity 7: 0/2 0.00%
-----------------------------------
Total: 198/237 83.54%

 

[JinxedMyself]

It was a typo, chapter edits don't give coins.
On the other hand, the list is indeed outdated, and contributors have extra special event types they can trigger (as well as special missions) that give bonus rewards to either themselves, their team or the entire userbase.

Coin "cards" have a range from 10 to 10000 coins as of right now (on top of the base coin rewards for pulls).

Please don't do that, you'll just get banned from the event... (it's easy to detect, even with random delays added).

I recommend simply using the site as usual, even more this next weekend (will share why soon)

There are currently 11 not so intelligent lifeforms that got blacklisted due to cheating, and I'm currently working on new detection layers to make the event as fair as possible for everyone.


As a sidenote, defectors also have special missions that give interesting rewards, so you might want to consider the idea...

Myabe verification of the payload is a good start.

 

[Jaxzog]

Okay, so were we not supposed to keep clicking on the ads?
I didn't reverse engineer the api and write a script to automatically send requests or anything; I just clicked the ad, over and over and over again.
I did some black box testing to figure out the rates for dexcoins and such, and essentially nothing is as effective as just clicking ad's.

There's a bug with the reader to where it only gives you points when going from the index page to the reader, but not when going to the next chapter (it might have worked once or twice, but seemed very finicky and unreliable);
Updating status repeatedly is a pain to do and doesn't net many points anyways, likewise for rating;
Uploading chapters or editing titles is a non-starter unless you're a contributor and have something real to do.

This means that not only is reading as normal not a viable strategy, neither is manually gaming the other options, not to mention that it's a clear abuse of the system, spamming random functions outside of their intended purpose.

But the ads are literally just there to be clicked, no? It's not like they preform an actual mangadex function outside of just grinding points(and pretty cool manga discovery), so I'd expect ad clicking to be an intended strategy, what else is it for other than that, right, that's why it gives you points in the first place.
It's the only strategy where you're not spamming back and forth between pages but rather preforming the intended function of the feature; Not only this, but it also has the best rates out of all of them, making it an actually viable strategy.

Maybe it was a bug that you can just click on the same ad over and over again without reloading the page, but I thought it was intended behavior.
Essentially you built a clicker, so I treated it as one (thought this was intended).
At first I manually clicked with a 5.5 second timer next to me, I did this for quite a while. After quite a bit I did get tired of doing that and made xdotool click for me on a 5.7s cycle, this might be where I went wrong. given that the game was basically just a clicker, I expected this to be within the bounds of the game (clearly it wasn't, I guess, oops lol, that's fair ig ), no api requests or hacking or anything, just xdotool click 1; sleep 5.7 loop.
genuine question, was it really not meant to be a clicker?, cause given the design, I can't see it any other way. (I don't mean this in a sarcastic way, I'm genuinely wondering.)
If not, then you should probably fix the bugs where reading chapters normally doesn't give you points properly, and where you can click the same ad nonstop without reloading.

For people still in the game here are some of my findings from my black box testing:

• ads give you 15 normally, but every 5 cycles they give you 40 instead.
• the timeout for ads is probably meant to be 5 seconds, but given network latency, you need to wait a bit longer than that.
• if I remember correctly, changing status only gives you 5 points (or was it 10, I don't remember) and it has a longer cooldown than ads.
• reading chapters gives you quite a bit more points, but the cooldown is long (somewhere between 30-60 seconds I think), and you need to go in and out of chapters, rather than reading normally; which is annoying and clearly an abuse of the system.

I will say, I ran some linear regressions on the dexcoin amounts, and I don't know what JinxedMyself was doing, but he got coins nearly twice as fast as me. probably chaining multiple different operations together at the same time or something.

It was a good run while it lasted, GG, and good luck to all of you still playing
(go ministry, defeat those filthy rebs )

also, for what it's worth, I'm not just some rando tourist, just a chronic lurker (hence only having set up my forum profile today lol), I usually read logged out and track in tachi, so that's why my account looks dead.

 

[BakedBanana]

also, for what it's worth, I'm not just some rando tourist, just a chronic lurker (hence only having set up my forum profile today lol), I usually read logged out and track in tachi, so that's why my account looks dead.

I believe you, you do have the role of 'member' on the main site which means you joined in V3 (since V5 members would have 'user' instead)

 

[ssj4maiko]

Okay, so were we not supposed to keep clicking on the ads?
I didn't reverse engineer the api and write a script to automatically send requests or anything; I just clicked the ad, over and over and over again.
I did some black box testing to figure out the rates for dexcoins and such, and essentially nothing is as effective as just clicking ad's.

There's a bug with the reader to where it only gives you points when going from the index page to the reader, but not when going to the next chapter (it might have worked once or twice, but seemed very finicky and unreliable);
Updating status repeatedly is a pain to do and doesn't net many points anyways, likewise for rating;
Uploading chapters or editing titles is a non-starter unless you're a contributor and have something real to do.

This means that not only is reading as normal not a viable strategy, neither is manually gaming the other options, not to mention that it's a clear abuse of the system, spamming random functions outside of their intended purpose.

But the ads are literally just there to be clicked, no? It's not like they preform an actual mangadex function outside of just grinding points(and pretty cool manga discovery), so I'd expect ad clicking to be an intended strategy, what else is it for other than that, right, that's why it gives you points in the first place.
It's the only strategy where you're not spamming back and forth between pages but rather preforming the intended function of the feature; Not only this, but it also has the best rates out of all of them, making it an actually viable strategy.

Maybe it was a bug that you can just click on the same ad over and over again without reloading the page, but I thought it was intended behavior.
Essentially you built a clicker, so I treated it as one (thought this was intended).
At first I manually clicked with a 5.5 second timer next to me, I did this for quite a while. After quite a bit I did get tired of doing that and made xdotool click for me on a 5.7s cycle, this might be where I went wrong. given that the game was basically just a clicker, I expected this to be within the bounds of the game (clearly it wasn't, I guess, oops lol, that's fair ig ), no api requests or hacking or anything, just xdotool click 1; sleep 5.7 loop.
genuine question, was it really not meant to be a clicker?, cause given the design, I can't see it any other way. (I don't mean this in a sarcastic way, I'm genuinely wondering.)
If not, then you should probably fix the bugs where reading chapters normally doesn't give you points properly, and where you can click the same ad nonstop without reloading.

For people still in the game here are some of my findings from my black box testing:

• ads give you 15 normally, but every 5 cycles they give you 40 instead.
• the timeout for ads is probably meant to be 5 seconds, but given network latency, you need to wait a bit longer than that.
• if I remember correctly, changing status only gives you 5 points (or was it 10, I don't remember) and it has a longer cooldown than ads.
• reading chapters gives you quite a bit more points, but the cooldown is long (somewhere between 30-60 seconds I think), and you need to go in and out of chapters, rather than reading normally; which is annoying and clearly an abuse of the system.

I will say, I ran some linear regressions on the dexcoin amounts, and I don't know what JinxedMyself was doing, but he got coins nearly twice as fast as me. probably chaining multiple different operations together at the same time or something.

It was a good run while it lasted, GG, and good luck to all of you still playing
(go ministry, defeat those filthy rebs )

also, for what it's worth, I'm not just some rando tourist, just a chronic lurker (hence only having set up my forum profile today lol), I usually read logged out and track in tachi, so that's why my account looks dead.

Woah, that's quite the testing.

I have also been using ads to farm, but I did not think it worked by just clicking the ad and nothing else, I knew that the request had to be made, but what I would do is to change in between clicking the Ad (Thus loading the page) and clicking "About Us" (Which changes the page, but there is no request), so the Ad makes the request to get coins, but since it's always the same, it minimizes impact overall (Although the browser crashes sometimes).

I did imagine it would be possible to create a script to do everything, but I was too lazy for that, and after I saw people getting million in a day, I just assume "Ok, there is likely cheating involved, so clearly this is not worth.".

Although I would like to complete the cards like I had done last year. (When I finally get a 7 star, it's almost 10K coins, which only gave me 5 more tries of repeated cards, completely useless)

But unless this game runs through at least half a year, I'm not sure it would be possible, and even if it did, it's certainly not really that important for a self-trophy.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Okay, so were we not supposed to keep clicking on the ads?
I didn't reverse engineer the api and write a script to automatically send requests or anything; I just clicked the ad, over and over and over again.
I did some black box testing to figure out the rates for dexcoins and such, and essentially nothing is as effective as just clicking ad's.

I had plans to do a general rebalance of the economy but I've been postponing it for a bit so that one's on me...

There's a bug with the reader to where it only gives you points when going from the index page to the reader, but not when going to the next chapter (it might have worked once or twice, but seemed very finicky and unreliable);
Updating status repeatedly is a pain to do and doesn't net many points anyways, likewise for rating;
Uploading chapters or editing titles is a non-starter unless you're a contributor and have something real to do.

This means that not only is reading as normal not a viable strategy, neither is manually gaming the other options, not to mention that it's a clear abuse of the system, spamming random functions outside of their intended purpose.

Probably you were "reading" too fast, since the previous value of the ratelimit for the chapter read event was 40 seconds.

But the ads are literally just there to be clicked, no? It's not like they preform an actual mangadex function outside of just grinding points(and pretty cool manga discovery), so I'd expect ad clicking to be an intended strategy, what else is it for other than that, right, that's why it gives you points in the first place.
It's the only strategy where you're not spamming back and forth between pages but rather preforming the intended function of the feature; Not only this, but it also has the best rates out of all of them, making it an actually viable strategy.

Well, originally they were meant as kind of a community powered discovery engine (they've been there since forever, we just added the first iteration of the gacha last year, with this year's being handled via an external API instead of purely handled on the frontend of the website).

Maybe it was a bug that you can just click on the same ad over and over again without reloading the page, but I thought it was intended behavior.
Essentially you built a clicker, so I treated it as one (thought this was intended).

It's the same cover due to the ad cover component not getting destroyed on route change (not sure if that's the intended behaviour though), but well, the event itself isn't meant to be a clicker, so that's why I've already done a couple of updates regarding event rewards in the first couple of days.

At first I manually clicked with a 5.5 second timer next to me, I did this for quite a while. After quite a bit I did get tired of doing that and made xdotool click for me on a 5.7s cycle, this might be where I went wrong. given that the game was basically just a clicker, I expected this to be within the bounds of the game (clearly it wasn't, I guess, oops lol, that's fair ig ), no api requests or hacking or anything, just xdotool click 1; sleep 5.7 loop.
genuine question, was it really not meant to be a clicker?, cause given the design, I can't see it any other way. (I don't mean this in a sarcastic way, I'm genuinely wondering.)

Which is why you got blacklisted, since cheating is not okay...

For people still in the game here are some of my findings from my black box testing:

• ads give you 15 normally, but every 5 cycles they give you 40 instead.
• the timeout for ads is probably meant to be 5 seconds, but given network latency, you need to wait a bit longer than that.
• if I remember correctly, changing status only gives you 5 points (or was it 10, I don't remember) and it has a longer cooldown than ads.
• reading chapters gives you quite a bit more points, but the cooldown is long (somewhere between 30-60 seconds I think), and you need to go in and out of chapters, rather than reading normally; which is annoying and clearly an abuse of the system.

Well you were not too far from the actual rewards and ratelimits (just not anymore once I deploy the new settings), but the chapter reading issue will be investigated, since it's not intended to be like that...

I will say, I ran some linear regressions on the dexcoin amounts, and I don't know what JinxedMyself was doing, but he got coins nearly twice as fast as me. probably chaining multiple different operations together at the same time or something.

It was a good run while it lasted, GG, and good luck to all of you still playing
(go ministry, defeat those filthy rebs )

also, for what it's worth, I'm not just some rando tourist, just a chronic lurker (hence only having set up my forum profile today lol), I usually read logged out and track in tachi, so that's why my account looks dead.

I can remove you from the blacklist if you promise you won't try to automate clicks (not like it'll be this profitable anymore tho ) or try to cheat in any way

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

So the question becomes, "how did y'all even break 500k?" It does not seem to be something manually feasible.

You're up first Mr. Tiddy. Spill the beans.

after a while, i just got really good at doing the same actions in the same amount of time. heh...

basically:
open the reader
select the april fool's ad in the bottom right with tab button
press Ctrl+Enter to open it in a new tab
using keyboard shortcuts, switch to new tab and close it
repeat in ~5.1 second loop

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

And the current scoring:

new leaderboard status:

and the teams are 50-50 again.

i'm gonna spend it all once i hit 1 million. hopefully i can fill out my collection.