(2010.May.02 06:13 PM)MrJones Wrote: (2010.May.02 05:59 PM)InPaceRequiscat Wrote: in short, what I am asking is....
When different bonus are applied to your trains, are they multiplied together, or added, because three 15% bonus added together is 45%, but three 15% bonus multiplied together is 52%.
If the bonuses are multiplied together, sometimes going to the next house would create a greater increase than cash into endurance.
The reason why it is so important, is that if I can figure out the what multiplies with each other, and what adds, I could theoretically know exactly what and how much will give the greatest increases for the money.
Just play the game... Buy a decent house, stick some credits into End... see how it works out... No point playing by formulae unless you're some AL answer to Rain Man or Beautiful Mind...
You could try and do the math(s) but that's all a little dull... Isn't it?
I enjoy math immensely.... and a lot of players are looking to get that edge... I want to try to find it...
At 150 EP a pop.... what is an additional 10 or 15% in dev points per full train? 30 to 60 points depending on your housing, trainer, end, and donator status. Wouldn't you want to get the biggest bonus for the cash you are about to throw down ?
Let's go on the light side... say... you only do 20 full trains a day.... that's 600 to 1200 dev points a day... 4200 to 8400 dev points a week.... 16800 to 33600 a month.... and considering some of you people have been playing at that level of energy points for a year now.... Yeah. Not small potatoes.
The other big thing... if they are multiplicative... do they multiply off each other like 1.15X1.15x1.15?...
or do they each add their own individual cumulative bonuses....
Take for example, a baseline train with no modifiers...
10 dev points.
now bring in bonuses.
end +10%
happiness +15%
donator status+50%
no trainer.
does the bonus work seperate?
baseline 10 dev points
end +1 dev points
happiness +1.5 dev points
donator status +5 dev points
totaling 17.5 dev points
or is the bonus multiply off each other, goes 1.1x1.15x1.5=1.8975
making the end train look like this
baseline 10 dev points
multiplied bonus 8.975 dev points....
for a total of 18.975 dev points....
Anyone who is getting what I am pointing at, let me know, message me, and we will try to work on this.
