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Figuring out pollution the hard way

Day 3,154, 18:14 • Published in Serbia Ireland

• by Releasethe Krakken

🙁 We all know the formula is unknown. But some of us is in the position where they actually have the only factories of a type in a region. In Idaho I have Q5 weps.

So over a couple of days I have been switching pollution:

At first I did not work - pollution was 0% (notice no decimal points)
The next day I wam clicked once - pollution was 0.00%(notice the decimal point)
The next day i did not work - pollution was 0%.

So I got a bit cocky and worked 11 times in that factory so pollution was then 1.12%. Ok so tomorrow i will work 10 times and then 9 and then 8 and track my pollution.

But already we see a way of cracking the formula. Which is as follow.

My hypothesis is that Q5 is not really worked that much. So we could track all the Q5 info around the world.

How is easy all regions basically have the same url up to their name. So I have a article where I placed all names. Or perhaps an excel spreadsheet. Anyway creating the url would be as simple as collating 2 cells together. So I copy paste the base url over 740 cells and then besides it the regions i then work out a formula to create the correct url from the 2 cells and expand it downwards .

Its basically then just a slightly less bit of schlep to check all data . I have checked now about 7 regions and none show any pollution.

most would be zero. Based on pollution etc we could calculate the production of a single click in the factory and then we could calculate the total production in the world. Once we have total number of goods produced and total number of clicks we could work out how they calculate pollution.

Comments

Gentle Predator Day 3,155, 01:34

How do you know you are the only one?

Releasethe Krakken Day 3,155, 03:43

well given the data if i work with wam click it gives 0.00(note the decimal) if I dont work it gives 0% (note no decimal) i tracked it over several days. ,my conclusion i must be the only one with such a factory there. i can bet you the results will be 1.12% again today.

Gentle Predator Day 3,155, 05:27

Oh, of course. But make sure to check regularly for 0%,so you know someone is not there. 🙂
Thank you for making this experiment, though. It could help many. 🙂

Releasethe Krakken Day 3,155, 07:13

it seems they changed the formula now

Gentle Predator Day 3,155, 10:02

So I've read, yes.

Dio Hostilian Day 3,155, 11:57

Good approach. I'll read the new article now, since they've changed the formula as you say. It is actually quite ridiculous that 11 works in a factory gives 1.1 % polution. That, basically, means 1 work = 0.1 %, which is quite ridiculous. No wonder everything is at 25 %.

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