Factor Shifts

Factor Shifts are a Prestige Mechanic (but not a Prestige Layer) unlocked when you Markup for the 1^st time. Its button is found in the Factors sub-tab of the Markup tab, underneath the list of Factors. It is utilised to further increase a player's progression in Ordinal Markup.

Usage

Factor Shifting is vital early-game as it reduces your Base by 1 (outside of Challenges), and the Base significantly affects your Ordinal and thus, OP gain to go with it. It also unlocks a new Factor which allows for more multiplicatively stacking benefits to Tier 1 Automation's efficiency.

Additionally, Factor Shifting resets everything that precedes it, restarting the features that performing a Markup normally does, and resetting your Factors and Ordinal Points. You can only perform 7 Factor Shifts per run outside of Challenges, as having 8 Factor Shifts would drop the Base to 2 and break the game.

Base Requirements for Factor Shifts

FS	End Base	Required OP (Bracket: Value with SFU73)			Ordinal Required (At Base)
		Normal Base	OC4, Base	OM:Rewritten Base
1	9	200	5.000e106	200	ω22
2	8	1,000	5.000e146	800	ω3
3	7	10,000	1.000e250	3000	ω4
4	6	350,000 (592)	1.000e136 (1.000e68)	50000	ω53+ω45
5	5	1.000e12	1.000e135	2.000e11	ωω+2
6	4	1.000e21	1.000e234	3.000e20	ωω2+1
7	3	1.000e100	1.000e250	1.000e100	ωω2
8	3	gψ(ΩΩω) (10)			ψ(ΩΩω)

Requirements for Factor Shifts (1-3 OC4 completions) (Bracket: Value with SFU73)

FS	Required OP (Base, 1 OC4 completion)	Required OP (OC4, 1 OC4 completion)	Required OP (Base, 2 OC4 completion)	Required OP (OC4, 2 OC4 completion)
1	14	2.236e53	6	3.684e35
2	32	2.236e73	10	7.937e48
3	100	1.000e125	22	2.154e83
4	592 (24)	1.000e68 (1.000e34)	70 (8)	2.154e45 (4.641e22)
5	1.000e6	3.162e67	10,000	1.000e45
6	3.162e10	1.000e117	1.000e7	1.000e78
7	1.000e50	1.000e125	2.154e33	2.154e83

Requirements for Factor Shifts (3-5 OC4 completions) (Bracket: Value with SFU73)

FS	Required OP (Base, 3 OC4 completion)	Required OP (OC4, 3 OC4 completion)	Required OP (Base, 4 OC4 completion)	Required OP (OC4, 4 OC4 completion)
1	4	4.729e28	3	2.187e21
2	5	4.729e36	4	2.187e29
3	10	3.162e62	6	1.000e50
4	24 (5)	1.000e34 (1.000e17)	12 (4)	1.585e27 (3.981e13)
5	1,000	5.623e33	251	1.000e27
6	177,828	3.162e58	15,849	6.310e46
7	1.000e25	3.162e62	1.000e20	1.000e50

! Note:	Factor Shift 8 can only appear before the first Factor Boost you will ever perform, and is a disguise of the first Factor Boost. Factor Shift 8 does not show up if you have performed a Collapse before, since you should have already Factor Boosted before. All Factor Shift costs here are rounded to the nearest integer.

Trivia

• Factor Shifts are reset when Factor Boosting, respeccing Booster Upgrades, entering or exiting Challenges, Collapsing and more.
• Factor Shifting becomes automated via the Factor Shift Autoprestiger.
• The Hotkey for this is S.
• The lowest currently possible Factor Shift requirement is 3; it is only possible for the 1^st (with at least 3.229 OC4 completions) and possibly the 4^th Factor Shift (with SFU73 and at least 4.095 OC4 completions).
• To reduce the FS1 cost to 1 OP, you need around 13.067 OC4 completions.
• According the doc for OM:Rewritten, there will be a change in Factor Shift costs; most of them are cheaper than original version. (200/800/3000/50000/2e11/3e20/1e100)
• According the doc for OM:Rewritten, every time you Factor Shift, they will increase the base of Factor 1-[Factor Shifts-1] by 0.1.