Ragnarok
2007-10-08 |  | fuse up or only when needed? |  |
Do the amounts of artifacts you have affect the chances of you finding those artifacts?
Like for example, you have 20 of each rare and 70 minor barreras, are the chances of finding barreras affected? |
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Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Also about the "What were you doing before digging" and "your resources" categories.......does that mean that the more credits you have the more likely you find artifacts? And what sorts of actions "before you dig" affect artifact chances? Neither of these things are ever really explained. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | yea, remember that "Stephen math" works in strange ways, so there has to be more going on than the algorithm information suggests that Stephen provides.
So, i guess that means i should waste minor barreras if i want to find them less? |
Dusinator
99+ day(s) ago | Odd. Whenever I`ve dug for arties, 4 turns/dig turned a pretty good find.
Looks like 7 turns is best....? |
elutheria
99+ day(s) ago | typical.. algortihm shows nothing about arti stock yet somehow it does affect it.. |
Pandy
99+ day(s) ago | Yeah, except that stephen said once that it did, lol and it seems to for me, so who knows really. |
Anfit
99+ day(s) ago | thx Pandy, though i must`ve seen it somewhere ;) Rag, that suggests that your artie stock does not affect digging... |
Pandy
99+ day(s) ago | Artifacts (for both GC & UC)
Chances of finding for artifacts
(Base difficulty) - (Time of day) - (Planet type) - (What were you doing before digging) - (Your resources) - (Race) - (Paid-Account Status)
Planet type = range from +25% to -20%
Time of day = range from +40% -100%
Race = range from +20% to -25%
Paid Account = +20%
Your Resources = +20%
The calculation is accumulative in this way, for an example say the base difficulty is 100 points:-
100 - 20% - 20%
= (100 - 20) - 20%
= 80 - 20%
= 80 - 16
= 64
The system calculates based on Difficulty points not percentage, the lower the difficulty points is the higher the chances of finding artifacts.
Due to the algorithm used, the more turns you use in a search the less chances of finding artifacts if you were to find artifacts. When you use 9 turns to find for artifacts, you get a - 2% chance of finding artifact for each artifact found. For example:-
Turn 1 - found nothing
Turn 2 - found nothing
Turn 3 - found 1 artifact
Turn 4 (-2% to finding artifact) - found nothing
Turn 5 (-2% to finding artifact) - found 2nd artifact
Turn 6 (-4% to finding artifact) - found 3rd artifact
Turn 7 (-6% to finding artifact) - found 4th artifact
Turn 8 (-8% to finding artifact) - found nothing
Turn 9 (-8% to finding artifact) - found nothing
Hint:-
Having a -5% to -10% to finding artifacts will not have such a big impact on the RT server but will surely have more of an impact on the lower servers.
(formulas supplied by Stephen Yong) |
Anfit
99+ day(s) ago | it is said, that the more you`ve got the more likely they will come to you, but i don`t really believe it... |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | some say yes some say no
No conclusive proof exists besides opinions.
I for one like to have most assimilated bases as possible and minimise the rest of the other uncommons (i ignore gentes cos i generally miss out on rare time.
six of one, half a dozen of the other really |
