Need help with two sums conflicting with eachother

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Godot 4.3

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Okay so im developing a game where there is an automated function where you gain money equivalent to the “Multiplier” variable every 0.5s, now, i got an upgrade where you gain more money based off the amount of points you have,
with a formula of M ** 0.21, now, i got another upgrade that just adds 1 to the multiplier, the problem, is that these conflict with eachother, if i buy the first upgrade i get the results i get, then if i buy the +1 multiplier upgrade i get the result i get for like 1 second and then its overridden by the first upgrade.
Heres the log i made with print():
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where 2.6… is the result i want after buying the +1 multi upgrade and 1.6… being the first upgrade, i need to know how can i fix this.
Heres the code for the first upgrade:

extends "res://button.gd"

var Active = false
func _ready() -> void:
	Cost = 6
func _on_pressed() -> void:
	if Global.Money >= Cost:
		disabled = state
		Active = true
		Global.Left_side = 1
		Global.Money -= Cost
	else:
		state = false
		disabled = state
func _pressed() -> void:
	disabled = true

func _on_timer_timeout() -> void:
	if Active == true:
		Global.Points()
	else:
		return


func Points():
	Global.Multi =+ (Global.Money ** 0.21)
	if Global.Money <= 1:
		Global.Money += 1
	else:
		return

and heres the code for the +1 multiplier one:

extends "res://button.gd"

func _ready() -> void:
	Cost = 2
func _on_pressed() -> void:
	if Global.Money >= Cost:
		disabled = state
		Global.Money -= Cost
		Global.Multi += 1
		Global.Right_side =+ 1
	else:
		state = false
		disabled = state
func _pressed() -> void:
	disabled = true
	state = true

and heres the Thingy that gives you money equal to the multiplier

func _on_timer_timeout() -> void:
	Global.Money += Global.Multi

(btw the really cheap cost is for debugging, ignore that.)

2

=+ is the wrong way around, Godot interprets this as Global.Multi is set to positive Global.Money to the power of 0.21.

3

If i invert it the ** becomes more intense and even if i crank the int to a lower number like 0.000001 it still increases really rapidly.

This effect is something i dont want

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this is what i want:
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minus the deleting the other multiplier part

4

You have to store your multipliers seperately then, they are being composed into one number of which you have no way to de-compose.

5

and how exactly would i do that?

I ended up doing what you said and i still get the exact same thing, separating it to two different variables and still the same happens, now the extreme addition to the multiplier also applies to the +1 multiplier one

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# in global
var bonus_multi: float = 0
var gold_multi: float = 0

# in button
func _on_pressed() -> void:
	if Global.Money >= Cost:
		disabled = state
		Global.Money -= Cost
		Global.bonus_multi += 1
		Global.Right_side =+ 1

# in points
func Points():
	Global.gold_multi = Global.Money ** 0.21
	if Global.Money <= 1:
		Global.Money += 1
	else:
		return

# on timeout
func _on_timer_timeout() -> void:
	var composed_multi: float = Global.bonus_multi + Global.gold_multi
	Global.Money += composed_multi
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Tried this and now i just get 0 money