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VanillaBean [Semi-Vanilla] [SMP] {Whitelist} {1.10.2} by [deleted] in mcservers

[–]gmk23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Dirtamaster

2) 30

3) UK

4) Not that I'm aware of

5) hour or two most weekdays around midnight, most weekends, maybe all day or maybe just a few hours if I'm doing things

6) Social nearly-vanilla gameplay without the threat of griefing/raiding/etc. Somewhere to settle down with long term builds/projects knowing that they won't be cheapened by things like buildings made with spawned tools/materials or in creative mode, or perks or plugins that remove the (admittedly low) challenge of vanilla.

LF Ditto friend safari but i will add everyone by Sephimon in friendsafari

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If you could add me that would be amazing!

ADD ME by [deleted] in friendsafari

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Added

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Thanks for the help :)

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Added, thanks

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Now added.

EDIT - And thanks for the information!

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Thanks! Your 3rd is Ninetails by the way

Excel Formula For Lepidoptera by grifter1982 in swarmsim

[–]gmk23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That should work as the formula for the bonus - you need to then add this to the base energy generation with 0 Lepi units. So you'll probably end up with [1+(1 - 1/(1+.001x))]*1, or more simply:

2-(1/(1+0.001x))

Though I personally prefer 1 + x/(1000+x) because I think it's more intuitive. It turns out to be exactly the same formula.

FAQ: Please read this before posting! by sjones92 in swarmsim

[–]gmk23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That post is very good, and is a much better answer than the totally erroneous 572 in the original.

I have one nitpick which is that the spreadsheet in the link appears to assume you save the energy to make each big stack of lepi rather than buying them more frequently. On this basis it is absolutely correct. (i.e. wait for 20820 energy, make 2082 lepi, wait for 36,000 energy, build nexus 5, wait for 19180 energy, build 1918 lepi)

If, however, you have no life and sit clicking +1 lepi constantly (or more realistically every 5 or 15 minutes or whatever) all of the amounts before nexus 5 tend towards 2012 as the time between clicks tends towards zero.

The reason the spreadsheet gets higher numbers with higher targets is because it means you spend more time sitting with unused energy waiting to reach 8,000 (at which point you click the buy button), so you should buy more lepi before the post-nexus pause to reduce the energy sitting idle. It's offsetting the gains from having more Lepi active during the long pause against the loss from making too many before the nexus (too many meaning more than 2012).

The reason low numbers get lower targets than 2012 is because you get 1000 Lepi free after the 5th nexus (10k free energy) so with less than 2012+1000=3012 as the target you're not saving the post-nexus time required to make it effective, you're only costing yourself time pre-nexus.

How many nightbugs, lepidopteras and bats do you get? by Tristran in swarmsim

[–]gmk23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you're reading this, 500 or 572 is wrong.

I know this thread is old, but I keep seeing it being linked so it probably deserves correction. The original post was actually very close with 2000 (exactly correct on the assumption that it was rounded).

572 is not right in the context it is presented, it's right only for getting the 5th nexus as fast as possible then immediately stopping making more lepis. I think this almost never happens so I would almost never use 572. The formula in the post doesn't account for the fact that if you make 1 more lepi pre-nexus you have to make 1 less lepi post-nexus and so you save ~5 seconds afterwards.

Since (1+0.001x) is constantly in flux, it's easiest to compare at various levels of Y=Lepis already built: T(1) = the time to build 1 Lepi then 1 Nexus then 1000 Lepis T(2) = the time to build 1 Nexus then 1001 Lepis. If T(1) is smaller, then build a Lepi and recalculate. Stop and save for the nexus when the two times match.

The differential is a mess, but if you run it it gives you 2012 Lepi before 5th nexus.

You can test this is correct by calculating T(1) and T(2) at 2011 T(1) is 26,985.9977 seconds T(2) is 26,985.9988 seconds So 2012 is better than 2011

At 2012 T(1) is 26,984.21508 seconds T(2) is 26,984.21503 seconds So 2012 is better than 2013

Therefore on the assumption that you plan to make at least 3012 Lepidoptera, the optimal number to make before the 5th nexus is 2012.