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A question of numbers and of stockpiles.
Ben
Posts: 657
7/18/2016
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Lets start with an unknown, X.
I want to get X of each of the lowest level of items. Then upconvert them to tier 2.
Then get another X, and upconvert twice.
I want to do this until I've got as many as X of the first level provides of every further level.
For example, glim into map scraps, stories, and all the way to the puzzling map.
There are values of X glim that provide NO puzzling maps. You just don't get there from here if you started this with only an X of 1,000.
I want X to be small enough to be reasonable, but large enough to feel like I've done something. I want to be able to point at, say, the partial maps and have that be a large enough stack of them to look good.
Also, arn't there items that have upgrades beyond the tier 5 of the puzzling map?
If I was wise I guess I should pick a large enough X to have those finish as well.
For now I'm using 10k.
10k glim is 1k map scraps is 200 Zea-stories is 40 partial maps is 5 (and change) puzzling maps.
Technically, ending with 5 requires ...
5:25:125:525:5,250 ... but you can't actually convert at exactly those ratios... 21k is a nice "round" number though... 42k has a certain appeal. Would give me 40 of each tier 5 item.
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xKiv
Posts: 846
7/18/2016
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Ben wrote:
10k glim is 1k map scraps is 200 Zea-stories is 40 partial maps is 5 (and change) puzzling maps.
Or 10k glim is 1050 mapscrap, "is" 220.5 zz, is 44.1 partmaps, is 8.82 puzzmaps 
The end number must be divisible by 5, so multiply by 500:
5M glim is 525k mapscrap, is 110250 zz, is 22050 partmap, is 4410 puzzmaps.
(ETA: I guess multiplying by 250 (and starting with 2.5M glim) would have been enough)
If you are using the boring connection-eating upconverts from T1 and T2 ...
10k glim is 1k mapscrap is 200 zz is 40 partmap is 8 puzzmap. Everything until the last conversion is fine, so to get the last one (and therefore all ones) correctly aligned, multiply by GCD(40,25)=5 (again :
50k glim is 5k mapscrap is 1000 zz is 200 partmap is (200/25=8,8*5=) 40 puzzmaps.
Slighlty cheaper, that.
edited by xKiv on 7/18/2016
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
7/21/2016
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Ben wrote:
50k does seem like a horrible lot of something to grind for, when I'm going to grind it 5 times...
250k glim, that's...
well, only a penny per glim but...
$2,500.00
Is a quarter of a goat, and I was going to do this for all items I could grind easily.
Never measure in units of goat-fractions. measure in units of time given X actions dedicated a day. It makes it easier to think about, and gives more acurate numbers, because goat-time is using best grind. [also, it's closer to 1/5th of a goat, since 117XX.XX echoes. :}]
edited by Grenem on 7/21/2016
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