jacob hunter! Posted May 2, 2007 Report Posted May 2, 2007 is it worth it to aquire the 8 million up upgrade? It says it only goes to 60 and first oen is at 50........ will it increase up alot or is it a big big big waste of money?
jacob hunter! Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Posted May 2, 2007 Well I said screw it once I saw your post on the attack that will be opening up tomorrow. I jsut spent my 8mil shipment and decided that soldiers will get me the money anyways. So don't need to worry about more up right?
Aileron Posted May 2, 2007 Report Posted May 2, 2007 Price will double with each upgrade. Your question isn't really correct. It is not a matter of if a UP upgrade is worth it, but when a UP upgrade will be worth it. Your income increases as time goes on. !@#$%^&*uming your account is an island, eventually your income will be large enough to reach any figure, no matter your UP. In this case, the time it takes to profit from an upgrade is dependant upon its' cost. Basically, the time it takes to profit from a UP upgrade is the time it would take to earn enough money to buy the upgrade if your UP were 10. The income from this is I = 200 * 10 * t . The total money is the integral of this: T = 1000 * t^2. Thus, the amount of time for a UP upgrade to pay for itself and start yielding profit is: squareroot[ (Cost) / 1000 ] The first upgrade will be profitable after 90 hours. However, not all UP upgrades will yield profit within a month. I designed the system to be stable for about 6 months, so that I know that it will remain stable for the whole month. However, there are other factors. First off, weapons are retroactively efficient. Thus, you can get more strike per less points if you have more soldiers. Secondly there is a little fact that your account is not an island. Fighting happens and yields casualties. Casualties are based upon a figure of about .1% of your population, times a few other variables and a random factor. There are a few workarounds, such as buying mercs and training troops, and this is dependant upon how many people attack you besides. !@#$%^&*uming it is a flat .1%, and !@#$%^&*uming you get attacked hourly and you do nothing about it, your population will be limited by 1000 * UP. Any less and you gain more troops than you lose, any more and your UP can't keep up with your casualties. At UP 50 under such cir!@#$%^&*stances, you would be limited to 50,000 troops, which is nice but less than 60,000 troops. Usually this ceiling isn't important, because you would need to be pummeled by three different people who would in turn all be suffering the same casualties you do. Thus, don't take this arguement literally, but UP affects your recovery from hardcore massings, which can indeed happen because the phase limit was increased by A LOT. Also, UP won't protect you from others, because that ghey little rule about not attacking people three times you size has been changed to not attacking people 100 times your size.
jacob hunter! Posted May 2, 2007 Author Report Posted May 2, 2007 yea it takes careful planning for the first two days then you get alot more.
Aileron Posted May 3, 2007 Report Posted May 3, 2007 The first one was supposed to be 40. The 50 UP upgrade was supposed to be 4,000,000. There was some technical difficulties, which I blame entirely on rootbear. To solve this the price of the 50 UP upgrade was changed to 10,000.
Dav Posted May 3, 2007 Report Posted May 3, 2007 trouble is with the upgrade doing it and not both have some benefits and drawbacks, its a hard choice to make.
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