Advice for players: Regarding the Climbing center
ahava3233
Hello, ahava3233 here. Anyway, I wanted to give another advice article for the people in eJapan, as well as any other readers I may have for my newspaper.
Many of you have certainly already upgraded your training grounds to Q3 and are getting enough strength for super soldier medals every 14-15 days. Guess what though, if you want to raise your strength faster, you can do better than that with further investment, and without spending too much gold daily (although you will not earn money this way). The secret is the climbing center.
The climbing center at Q1 gives 2.5 strength, 5 strength at Q2, and 7.5 strength at Q3. Using the climbing center costs .19 gold. This might not sound like much for what you pay for, but on top of a Q3 training grounds, the climbing center is very effective for training, and you don't lose too much on your daily investment, particularly if you have Q3.
So, assuming you already have a Q3 training ground (this should be your TOP priority given the reasons I gave here, get it before almost anything else). Let's do the math...
5 divided by .19 gold is roughly 26 and a third. Thus, as a guideline, although we will not make this, we want to earn an extra super soldier medal about every 26-27 days to break even. So, given you already have a Q3 training grounds...
Q1 Climbing Center (initial cost, ¥100 or CC): 22.5 strength for every fifth day, else 18.5 strength. This comes out to a medal about every 12-13 days. For this one, given the algebraic equation 15*(x) = 13*(x+1), as x=6.5, you therefore earn your extra medal every 97.5 days.
Q2 Climbing Center (initial cost, 20 gold w/o discount): 25 strength for every fifth day, else 21 strength. This comes out to a medal about every 11-12 days. For this one, given the algebraic equation 15*(x) = 12*(x+1), as x=4, you therefore earn your extra medal every 60 days.
Q3 Climbing Center (initial cost, 50 or 70 gold (if one doesn't already have Q2) w/o discount): 27.5 strength for every fifth day, else 23.5 strength. This comes out to a medal about every 10-11 days. For this one, given the algebraic equation 15*(x)=11*(x+1), as x=2.75, you earn your extra medal every 37.5 days.
Looking at the math above, disregarding the initial capital needed to upgrade the facility, the Q3 climbing center does not seem to be too expensive daily (About 2.12 gold every 37-38 days), and if strength training is your top priority, it would be ideal to upgrade your climbing center to Q3. The upgrade offers a 44% increase in strength training speed, which is rather substantial!
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I just saw a glimpse of why you specialize in math. >_>
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this is excellent advice, but I would definitely upgrade the base training center to the maximum first, and then wait for a discount to upgrade the climbing center. 70g is not a trivial amount to spend, but a basic climbing center is pretty neutral in terms of the initial cost vs the daily gold vs the 5g rewards as you level up. In other words, the initial cost of the climbing center repays soon; the upgrades pay back more slowly...
Wow i never though it this far.
Gonna get a Q3 climbing centre now!
Though the 70 gold needed is quite a setback for most players
Wait for upgrade promotion!
Agreed with all that...if you didn't catch it I kinda worked the math off people already having Q3 training grounds (hence hinting, along with saying bluntly that upgrading the training grounds should be top priority, look again) and hinted at discounts and all that if you didn't notice (wink). Don't worry I didn't miss anything, lol. I even bolded the fact people won't make a profit this way!
I would like to add two points which may interest you.
1)Strengths and golds have another relationship. Observed that one can sell damage after certain threshold, actually the LONG TERM training cost is even lower.
2)TIME is not considered. For instance, if one's goal is to get 10k str ASAP with an optimal plan, you may show that using a Q3 climbing center is still the best choice in some situations(i.e. given monthly gold income/expense as constraints).
@ahava3233: Oh, if you thought I might be disagreeing with you, I'm sorry I gave that impression, I'm actually agreeing with you. I was just pointing out the importance of upgrading the base training facilities first, for those that have not upgraded those already to Q3.
Plato has given out a lot of gold recently, and will want to take it back. I bet there is a discount promotion on upgrades again soon, so wait for that, if funds are scarce.
@Tom Medelsvensson
Aye, then you emphasized an important point.
Btw I hope you're right, I'm personally waiting on these discounts to show up myself. (wink)
Good and helpful article.
collecting gold and waiting for the next discount...