Idle Miner Tycoon is based on the same principle as all other idle tycoon games. You have to make strategic decisions to grow your wealth and company size. With many investing and upgrading options, choosing where to invest a certain amount of money is crucial. Starting from only one shaft with a single worker to a multi-level tycoon, you will quickly enjoy the game and rush of incoming income. Let’s talk about the features of this compared to the idle office tycoon.
Working Model
The working model of an office tycoon starts from building offices and buying the basic amenities to giving the office on lease to companies. The idle miner tycoon starts from a shaft where workers mine the coal. Upgradable options at this level are according to the play mode. For example, in an office, you must upgrade furniture, working desks, meeting rooms, fire extinguishers, etc. But here, you can upgrade the workers by increasing their capacity to mine and walking speed. This also increases the number of workers.
In addition to the workers who won’t work independently, you have to hire managers with specific abilities to supervise the workers. Then, an elevator takes the mined coal above the ground level. You can only upgrade its capacity to take material at a time. Besides that, there is a warehouse that transfers the material from the elevator to the warehouse. Both of these also require managers to keep up the pace of work. You can hire more efficient managers when there is an increase in workload.
On the other hand, if we talk about the office tycoon, you can’t upgrade the office staff, only the office structure and building. Also, there is no powerhouse in the idle miner tycoon, which must be upgraded like an office tycoon.
Your Task
In this game, you must unlock new shafts and upgrade the previous ones, including workers and managers. Also, the elevator and warehouse have to match the pace of working capacity. If anything is left behind, the whole mining experience will be affected. For instance, if you don’t upgrade the elevator with workers, the coins will pile up in the shaft basket and never reach the warehouse fully. Ultimately, your cash in the wallet will grow slower.
Similar is the case with office tycoons, where you must upgrade everything at the same pace and invest in other business models like electronic foundry and powerhouse.
Speed Up Option
As I mentioned earlier, every manager comes with some special ability. Some have X amount of walking speed; some have more mining speed, and some discount upgrading costs. But these qualities don’t work by themselves. There’s a time limit whenever you activate the boost of managers individually. That depends on how expensive a manager you have hired.
When you tap a specific manager, you can check their skill level through their titles, just below their name. It is categorized according to ranks, like junior or senior. At the start, when you cannot hire top-notch managers, you can employ mediocre ones and then move up to the more skilled ones. Also, you can sell the manager when you don’t need one. For example, if you have moved on to the higher level of the game and need to hire an expert, you can sell beginner-level managers to clear up the space. You can sell 100% on watching an ad; otherwise, it’s 50% of the original price you will get.
Contrary to that, there are no such speed-up options. You can rent the building to bigger companies for a greater lease.
Free Awards
Like any other game in this category, this also works on a freemium model. You can get the perks of multiple boosts for free when you watch ads. Otherwise, you can also buy the super cash for real money. You should get along with the ads at the start; that will boost your growth as a mine tycoon. Because if you can collect billions in seconds, the amount required to upgrade the higher-level shafts and unlock new ones is also in billions and trillions.
Similar is the case with office tycoons; you can watch limited ads on a daily basis to get bonuses and awards. You can refresh the company list to unlock new ones.
