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This is the third article of the series of articles about time management. You can read the first two articles here (though it's not really required to understand this one):

Part 1: The free booster distribution
[url="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/how-to-effectively-distribute-your-daily-hours-part-2-of-4--1456686/1/20"]Part 2: Multi-day routines & Micromanagement[/url]

Now on to part 3:

Part 3: Ideal distribution calculator

This time I'll present you with a unique and never-before-seen type of calculator. By using the mathematical analysis shown in the previous articles of the series, it is possible to calculate an ideal distribution - not only for the free boosters case, as explained in the first article, but also for distributions that use boosters.

You can download the calculator here.
This is version 1.1 of the calculator. If you have downloaded v1.0, please upgrade - a very serious bug with the entertainment boosters has been fixed.

For those interested in the mathematical equations used to calculate the distribution and the satisfaction, I will edit the article and post a link to an explanation later (probably only next month, though).

Now, a little explanation about the calculator. As discussed before, the ideal distribution depends on how important you consider money, skill and the military part of the game. In the calculator, these preferences are symbolized by "Profiles":



Each profile automatically assigns weights to each of the 3 parameters. You can also pick your own values by choosing the "Custom..." profile.

After picking the profile, insert your food and house happiness gains, your salary (in gold per hour), daily expenses (also in gold/day) and external income, and click on the "Calculate" button.

It will then show you what your ideal distribution & boosters should be. It will also show you what it thinks to be the second best distribution - feel free to use that one if it seems better to you, after all, the "satisfaction" function is only an approximation of your real preferences. It will also show you the free booster distribution and it's associated satisfaction, for comparison.



About the distribution: the values shown are not necessarily an integer - this is intentional, so you can create your own multi-day routine (MDR) if you so wish. If you want to have just a daily routine, you can just approximate the result.

However, one result used is that whenever you use boosters, you should use an MDR, otherwise the satisfaction values would be off, and the distribution would be non-optimal. If this sounds confusing, have a look at the second article again; and if it is still confusing - it will be better explained in the next article.

New features will be added to the calculator soon, and released together with the fourth and last series of the articles, so stay tuned.

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