Idle Planet Miner – Quick Guide to Managers

Managers Guide

To check manager stats like global bonuses: Managers->Actions->Stats.

How Do Managers Work?

• Managers are located in the fourth tab on the bottom.
• They can be unlocked in the Projects Tree just to the right of the middle.
• Managers can be upgraded by long-pressing the manager and then clicking Promote-Promotion requires four (4) managers of the same star level, you will keep only 1:1 promoted to next star level (4 to 5* for example); 3 discards (loss of manager)*
• Every planet can hold one manager and this manager will affect this planet.
• Managers of three (3) stars and higher get a secondary boost, which affects all planets in the galaxy.
• The first boost of a manager can be either mine rate, cargo or ship speed. The secondary boost of a manager can be mine rate, cargo, ship speed, smelt speed or craft speed.
• When leveling up a manager, the boosts it has will not change; however, a promoted 2* will gain a secondary boost when becoming a 3*.

What Managers Should I Get?

In general, the best manager sequences are (Primary/All Secondary):

• Mine/Smelt
• Mine/Craft
• Mine/Mine
• Mine/Ship Speed
• Mine/Cargo

The later you get in the game, the more you will move towards mine/mine over smelters/crafters as secondary bonuses.

• Because the boosts stack, it is better to have a few 4⭐ managers than to have one 5⭐ manager, so don’t be too hasty to promote managers.

Manager boosts can be increased by the Mothership Room: Classroom.

The Premium ship Aurora also doubles all managers bonuses.

Secondary Base Values

Crafter and Smelter:

• 3 Star Manager = 1.05
• 4 Star Manager = 1.1
• 5 Star Manager = 1.2
• 6 Star Manager = 1.4
• 7 Star Manager = 1.7

All Miners:

• 3 Star Manager = 1.05
• 4 Star Manager = 1.1
• 5 Star Manager = 1.2
• 6 Star Manager = 1.3
• 7 Star Manager = 1.5

All Speed / All Cargo:

• 3 Star Manager = 1.1
• 4 Star Manager = 1.2
• 5 Star Manager = 1.4
• 6 Star Manager = 1.6
• 7 Star Manager = 2.0

They are Increased from:

• Premium Ship Aurora.
• Room “Classroom”.
• Space Station Projects Managers 1-8.
• Tree-Projects all Manager Trainings and Specialist Universities.
• Leader Projects for 1 or 2 Managers.

Calculation Example

Manager Secondary = ((Base Value – 1) x A x C x MT x AMT x SMT x SU x ASU x SSU x SP) + 1

• A = Aurora (If you have it its 2, otherwise its 1)
• C = Classroom
• MT = Manager Training (1.1, if you dont have it 1)
• AMT = Advanced Manager Training (1.1, if you dont have it 1)
• SMT = Superior Manager Training (1.1, if you dont have it 1)
• SU = Sepcialist University (1.05, if you dont have it 1)
• ASU = Advanced Sepcialist University (1.05, if you dont have it 1)
• SSU = Superior Sepcialist University (1.05, if you dont have it 1)
• SP = Space Station (All Project Bonuses additive, 1 if you dont have any

Recruit Analysis

6000 DM Example:

• 500 dm managers – 12 pulls (average 334 arks, 34 hours per pull)
• -3 5stars (25%)
• -9 4stars (75%)

• 300 dm managers – 20 pulls (average 200 arks, 20 hours per pull)
• -5 4stars (25%)
• -15 3stars (75%)

• 50 dm managers – 120 pulls (average 34 arks, 4 hours per pull)
• -6 3stars (5%)
• -24 2stars (20%)
• -90 1stars (75%)

In the top example you are basically guaranteed a 6star manager for your spending. In the bottom 2 examples you will not be able to get a 6star manager even with the best luck.

How Many Managers Should You Get?

• Have as many manager slots as planets you regularly open
• Having a planet that can’t have a manager due to lack of slots is a waste
• Have no more manager slots than managers
• Having a slot without a manager to fill it is a waste

So if you regularly open 10 planets, you should quickly get to 10 slots, but you should always have at least as many managers as slots. Don’t worry about upgrading managers until you have more managers than slots and as many slots as planets that you regularly open on most runs.

These rules change a bit once you get up to 30-35 manager slots, but you’ll figure that out when you get there.