Are you earning or losing money with every hit?

Day 5,602, 07:48 Published in Romania Romania by Io Stefan Voievod

Hello!

In this article I will share some simple formulas that can determine if fighting in ground battles is profitable or not. This strategy is based on historical data and contains many variables and estimates, as such please understand the following

Disclaimer: Not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results! Certain variables were last retrieved on March 23, 2023.

TL; DR – Using your base hit multiplied with your protector level and any additional boosters you can determine if True Patriot rewards cover your food and weapons costs. There's also a Google Sheet link at the end of the article.

We start by calculating our base hit in accordance with the official formula:

D = 10 × (1 + S/400) × (1 + R/5) × (1 + FP/100)

In the following table I did the math for my account. Base hit and final hit (after applying the Protector bonus) is the damage done using 10 energy. I'm using Fire Power 200 because no one fights with lesser quality weapons.



Let's do some more math and see how much money I'm earning or losing with every 100 million damage done:


Combat Stash increases gold and currency rewards by 10%.
Combat Stash during certain events, like we had during Spring Challenge, increases rewards by 13%.
Values rounded up to the nearest ten.

The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?
It seems that given the current prices I'm losing money if I'm not fighting with 100% damage boosters 😭

If you produce your own food and/or weapons your Profit/Loss might look better, but you have to understand that there's an opportunity cost, meaning that the energy used to produce those items could've been used in a battle. For some players it's even more profitable to fight, than to produce.
I'm just a poor D1 player, let's test these formulas on dinosaurs which also benefit from the Elite Citizen bonus of 10% added to their base hit. I've also updated the protector level to 50/50 or 200%.

Clopoyaur


Misho




I've create a Google Sheets file which you can copy or download from this link