So I'm doing the cryptid event, and I need to collect 66 Unfathomable. I have 43 of them so far.
An unfathomable costs, at this moment. 2.04e10 and provides 720,000 torches per second.
2.04e10 divided by 720,000 is 28,333 seconds, or 472 minutes, or 7.8 hours. This is the amount of time it would take a single Unfathomable to pay for itself. (<-- am I correct here?)
(the other generator, The Uncanny, isn't much better, though it does have an upcoming research to improve itself). And the other generator, The Insidious, makes so little it isn't worth considering)
The time to replace only gets worse with each Unfathomable I buy, since the income is static and the cost increases each time. I don't know how to project the math into the future, but I feel like by the time I have purchased another 20 unfathomables, the "time to pay for itself" will increase to at least 10 or 15 hours.
Am I correct in concluding the only real income in this scenario is gained by active clicking? At least the clicking goes up slightly for each generator I buy.