How Many Energy Bars to Finish Spring Hunt?
Whiskey Jack
T-error asked in the EZC shout feed if it is possible to finish Spring Hunt without energy bars. I suspected that it is not possible, but I decided to do the math to prove it. Here are my starting assumptions:
1. You will have all of the possible energy centers, which give you 1400 energy capacity.
2. You will start with full energy, and are 140 xp away from leveling up at the beginning of the contest.
3. You are willing to make use of every possible energy refill for fighting over the next 7 days. No training & no working.
4. You have the minimum number of bazookas (3,334 lol) required to get one hit kills up to 10,000 prestige points in order to maximize your carrot gains, and are only using bazookas. You don't care about how much damage you do, just gaining prestige points (pp from here on).
5. You bought the energy pack, and have 30 energy refill per 6 minutes at the beginning of the fight. For simplicity I am just going to bump that to 40 per 6 minutes, because you will be getting the additional 10 per 6 minutes during the course of the contest.
6. You are D4 for the purposes of the weekly rewards.
Alright, here we go. So you start fighting with your 1400 x 2 energy at 00:00 erep time day 2345. This gets you 280 pp. You also gain a level up after your first 140 fights, gaining you a full energy refill for another 140 pp. We're up to 420 pp so far. Now you sit at your computer and slog it out for the next 7 days. Over the next 7 days you have a maximum of 7 days x 24 hours x 10 refills per hour x 40 energy per refill for a grand total of 67200 energy gained. 10 energy per kill gets us another 6720 kills/pp. We're up to 7140 pp.
Plus we gain another level up for 140 more pp. 7280 pp from food fights & leveling so far.
Now we figure in the carrots. We get 1 carrot per 25 kills. We've gotten 7280 kills so far (my mouse clickan finger hurts), and we divide that by 25 for a total of 291.2 carrots, so we'll be generous and round that up to 292. Multiply that by 5 kills per carrot for another 1460 kills/pp. We are also gaining carrots while using them so we divide 1460 by 25 for another 58.4 carrots. Rounding up again (because Plato loves us), we get 59 carrots, multiplied by 5 kills for another 295 kills/pp. Rinse and repeat for another 11.8 (12) carrots, 12 x 5 = another 60 kills/pp. We gain another 2 carrots, 10 more kills pp. We've leveled up again during all of this for 140 kills/pp, plus 7 more carrots (carrying over some kills) for another 35 kills/pp.
Our grand total is: 7280 + 1460 + 295 + 60 + 10 + 140 + 35. 9280 pp. But we have also gotten some eb from the missions and the rewards bar. We have been moving around while getting our kills, so we have met all of the mission requirements. Our grand total from the missions: 14 eb. 140 kills/pp, plus another 7 (again, Plato loves us) carrots for 35 more. Adding 175 pp to our total, making it 9455 pp. Now for the weekly rewards. Looking over the list, we have gotten another 30 energy bars so far. 300 more kills/pp, plus another 15 carrots (including carrots gotten while using carrots), for a total of 360 more. Our grand total: 9815 pp. Not quite there. So 10,000 - 9,815 = 185 more kills needed. Figuring in some carrots gained, we would need about 15 more eb.
So there you have it. If someone else comes up with a solution that gets us to the 10k pp without using any stored/bought eb's, please leave a comment with your solution. I will give 10g to the first better solution for your ingenuity/superior math skills.
TL😉
R - you need 15 energy bars AT A MINIMUM to get 10k prestige points.
-AH
P.S.: Keep in mind that I am being overly generous here. I did not figure in the 30 per 6 minute energy gain up to 1000 pp., and I think I gave 1 level up too many.
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FIST
Good article
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CURRAHEE
NICE!
Currahee!
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wat
yo momma
All I know is click click click click click
See, this is the sort of thing the media needs more of.
Half-assed math?
You made my head hurt. I demand compensation.
Don't like my post -- compensation mofo!
Sent.
Yay 😃
dat math
v&s nice job 🙂
But in order for that to work, you would have to spend RL money on the energy upgrade. For anyone who doesn't spend RL cash here, this event is impossible without using a ton of saved up EBs and Zookas. Sadly, I don't keep 500 EBs in storage.
It was already in my assumptions that you would have 3,334 bazookas for all of the one hit kills. And yeah, without the energy pack you are looking at half of the food fight kills, meaning fewer carrots, etc.
Yeah, and when you have the "poison carrot" you must then defeat the evil vermin on the battlefield and, from what I understand, receive a BH award. This will complete the final hidden mission. We all know how easy a BH is to get during one of these contests. 😃
You mean that the 25 energy bars from the "magic ingredient" mission wouldn't be enough?!?! Hell, I'm gonna have to do more calculations....
Or not.
Don't know! 😒cratches hea😛
I'm pretty simple. If my budget allows I just buy 450 gold on discount for RL entertainment purposes. Lately I've been converting some to cash to help Canada but most goes for EB's. I mash the fight button until that is gone, then contest is over for me. 😃 I come back later to see if I win anything.
Good read. Voted. 🙂
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Amazing article.
And super useful for people like me that can never make calculations for nothing.
Thank you for all the information.
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Thanks for the compliments!
There are only 10 types of people in the worl😛 Those who understand binary, and those who don't
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Aren't binary codes made up of at least 8(!) numbers? 00000010 for your example.
I think you mean one byte. One byte is made of 8 bits.
1 in binary = 1 in decimal
10 in binary = 2 in decimal
11 in binary = 3 in decimal
and it goes on xD
You don`t actually need that many Bazookas, you will get plenty of 1 hit 1 kill enemies. And if you factor in a damage booster, that ups the chance of 1/1 even more.
Granted, but could you guarantee a given percentage of 1/1 kills? I was simply arguing that in order to be 100% sure of 1/1 kills you would need to use bazookas.
I don't know if it works, I never checked.
Fight in GF. If you use helmet and protection so your enemy didn't hurt you.
Sounds like a lot of but hurt for nothing to me..
Nice article mate....o7
Did you figure in 7 EB's for doing Daily Orders ? Thats 70 kills, which gives you 2 carrots. Which gives you 10 kills, and another carrot 5 more kills for 85. Still 100 kills short I believe.
You're right, I did neglect energy bars from DO. I think that with the 7 ebs from that and three more carrots, we're still around 5 or 6 ebs short.
you should get some credits somewhere for writing this..... my brain hurts from the grinding of all of this... haven't you learned anything yet... the game is rigged from every directions, sit back and have fun, there is nothing to win here... this entire structure is designed to get you to open your wallet, or not. Even if you spend tons of RL money on virtual gold, there is nothing to win, except a virtual medal.
Ultimately, one either enjoy virtually shooting virtual tanks at virtual bad guys, or not.
Or, you can go completely OCD and at best; break even.
For me, I just bumble along, like a having a harmless habit, because my wallet stays bolted shut.
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Good analysis. This is the worst contest they have run to date. It is demoralizing and defeats the purpose of creating something the players can enjoy.
Plus 25 Prestige points for the 25 Small Bombs you gain, plus 5 more for the Carrot you get for blowing those bombs... So that's 3 fewer EB's
We're getting close, but still not quite there.
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i have only 1100 bars and 1363 bazookas
those are strange assumptions
Do you have infinite gold in this scenario? You could spam the first aid kit at .5g a piece.... What a rip.
bs i used 86 x 100 and 45 x 2000 energy bars and is at 2600 energy bars now. you get 1 carrot per 500 hp in carrots as you need 25 kills per carrot multiplied by an average of say 20 = 25 * 20 = 500(10 is ridiculous). also the basic sum is you need 100000 100k hp to reach 10000 prestige points for each 10 hp you spend you get 1 prestige point. your basic figure at the beginning of the week was a realistic 8000 hp per day x 7 = 56000 HP or 5600 pp's that giving you a further 112 carrots * 50 = 5600 HP /500 = 11 carrots * 50 = 550 hp /500 = 1 carrot . your figures for bazookas is also wrong so 6000 or 600 furhter pp.
56000 / 250 = 224 carrots * 50 = 11200 HP / 250 = 44.8 carrots * 50 = 2240 / 250 = 9 carrots * 50 = 450 2 carrots about = 100 hp
so 11200 2240 450 100 hp = 13990 hp / 10 = 1399 pp +5600 = 7000 pp still needing 3000 or 30000 hp /200 = 150 * 200 energy bars or 300 * 100 energy bars. which will be lowered by carrots but still 13 is stupid.