Strength : Learning the ropes

Day 1,086, 20:34 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Sean Power

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ADMINS HAVE MOVED THE TARGETS FOR A SUPER SOLDIER MEDAL FROM 100 STRENGTH TO 250. THIS MEANS THAT MOST OF THIS ARTICLE IS NOW OBSOLETE!!!

Firstly thanks to anyone who voted for my last article. Cheers guys! I meant to get this out immediately after the new training regime was released but I’m a lazy a-hole! Have finally put some words together but it’s not quite groundbreaking stuff. First is a little project of mine and then there’s some analysis of effects the new training regime has had on different parts of the game.

Strength Calculator
Yet another useless spreadsheet courtesy of Mr. Sean Power 🙂 This one allows you to see how many days training you’ve left till your next SS medal and what the cost will be if you’re into the performance enhancing drugs otherwise known as boosters. Check out how many days it takes to go from 0 to SS medal under your own personalised training regime. Stay cost effective by seeing how much strength you’re gaining for each gold spent. And see how much of an advantage per month you’re gaining with your training regime over basic players with no friends.

Instructions for use:
* Log into your google account
* Open up the Strength Calculator
* Click 'File' then 'Make a Copy'
* Input info requested in grey area
* View output displayed under Orange headers
* Go on... it’s worth a look 😃



Weapons
You’re now free to purchase whichever type of weapon you please since your military skill is no longer tied to any of them. You may be used to buying a certain type but keep an eye on all 4 types for bargains now.

Strength Effect on the Daily Bonus
We now get 1 strength as a bonus for working and training (that third click is all important now!😛) Previously we received 100 military skill, which was a pretty insignificant in comparison. Each day we get 1% closer to a Super Soldier medal for absolutely free

Free Daily increase
Basic Training + Free Booster + Daily Bonus = 6.5 strength per day.
That means you’ll get about 2 treasure maps (approx 9 gold) a month for clicking a few times once a day.... simplez 🙂

Friends
If you’ve invited friends to play and they’re at least lvl 6 (and not a rotting corpse!) then you’ll get extra strength. Each friend will give you a 0.5 strength bonus per day. The maximum number of friends you can use to help you is 2.



Boosters
Wooohooo.There’s now a way for a booster to help increase you stats and increase your money! By using the +50% booster the number of days it takes to go from one SS medal to the next is reduced by FOUR DAYS! The total cost is 2.28gold which means you’ll have maybe a couple of gold left over from your treasure map if you reinvest it in the booster.


Strength is even more important a factor in determining how much influence you have on a battle. I thoroughly recommend investing your gold in the 0.19 booster as it’s the most cost effective method of enhancing your military prowess!

Training Regime Examples

Fastest : +200% booster & 2 Friends & Daily Bonus
Takes 6 days for each SS medal
Total cost is 10.74 gold
5.31 Strength per gold spent

Slowest : +10% booster & 0 Friends & Daily Bonus
Takes 16 days for each SS medal
Total cost is 0 gold

Most Effecient: +50% booster & 0-2 Friends & Daily Bonus
Takes 11-12 days for each SS medal
Total cost is 2.09 - 2.28 gold
10.5 Strength per gold spent



Economic impact
Due to the admins giving out backdated super-soldier medals, and the resultant gold, we’ve seen a steep rise in the price of IEP. I guess this must be due to the rise in demand for IEP from all of us who got filthy rich 🙂 The recent spate of battles would probably have helped push it up also.

Long term we’ve got a new revenue source. It’s been mentioned in admin statements that people can now expect a treasure map (from a SS medal) at least every 20 days. Actually they’ve underestimated the speed of training. It’s closer to 15.5 days on totally free training. That’s about 2 maps a month or 8 to 10 gold which aint bad! With this sort of gold filtering into the economy we can expect tax revenues to pick up ... hopefully.

Effect on Influence creation
Here’s a reverse engineered formula taken from an article by Topspeed which seems to be pretty close to the real thing. Multiply damage by the number of hits it takes to kill the enemy to find your influence.

D = ((R/50 + 0.4) * (S + 100)/5 + 10) * Q

D: the soldier's damage
R: the soldier's rank facto
S: the soldier's strength
Q: Quality of the soldier's weapon factor. Q = 1 + Quality/5. If the soldier has no weapon, Q = 1. (For non-standard weapons, Q = 1 + FirePower/100.

“Let's get back to the formula and assume you have a strength of around 900. Then for each increase in your rank factor, your total damage increases by 4 points. And with only ten percent of your damage as your rank points, ranking up is ridiculously slow now.

Take me for example again. If I hit 10k damage every day, then after almost 100 days, I can rank up, and my damage can be increased -- by 4 points.
What if I put that money into training? I can use the 200% booster every day, and in 100 days, my strength will be 2500, and my damage can be increased by at least 300 points!”
- Extract from article by Topspeed



Military Skill Migration
Well the admins managed to give out too many maps to some people, not enough to others and everyone else probably fit into one of the two first categories but couldn’t be @rs3d to check! There’s also a lot of annoyance over the method of converting v2 military skills to strength. The short version is that anyone who spilt themselves between two or more of the weapon type skills were left with a fair bit less than those that didn’t. That’s the claim, I’m not fussed enough to investigate it further!

The Best of the Best
I stumbled upon this awesome site that allows you to see where your strength ranks compared to everyone in Ireland. Check it out and set a goal to try and beat someone. Maybe have a race with a friend to your next super soldier medal. Or work on taking the Number 1 spot from Snakeyes someday... ok maybe focus on something realistic! A man can dream though, can’t he 😉



Why have you read this far? You should be checking out the STRENGTH CALCULATOR
- Instructions at the top of the article 😁

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