by Marmalade » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:45 pm
[quote="MAD DOG"][quote="Marmalade"]I've updated the text fro the next revision, however [b]I am not going to do a new version just for that[/b].
I've had around 43 people download version 7. 6 people download 7.1 and 3 people download 7.1 Lite.
After all this, I've really had only two people give me feedback. So if anyone has suggestions, calculations they would like to see, etc, let me know.
BTW, if there are any Automators or Necromancers out there who would like to help me out, I need to better understand your recent class changes.[/quote]
Of course. Can you also make an option for the "Purchasing Soldiers", the cell where you are supposed to enter the gold you want to spend, can you enter a drop down list to select a percent of the money? 100%, 90, 80,... Or make it so we can select all the money.
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I will think on that. I'm tempted to not do that, since it is normally sub-optimal. The easiest way for you to do it is go back to Your Kingdom and change your Gold, so that it is effectively "Gold Available for Army". You want to only spend 90% of your gold then hide 10% by not telling the calculator.
[quote]Edit: In the "Gold to spend on soldiers for full upgrade", is the cost calculated to build the barracks and then build back mines, or only to build the barracks? Because I want to build the barracks and then build Training Grounds, which is 5% extra land, so I need to know whether to subtract 5% or 30% from the "Gold to spend on soldiers for full upgrade" cell.[/quote]
Lets say at the start you have 100,000 land total with 5,000 barracks. It will calculate you need to convert 20,000 land to barracks (from any type) plus 25,000 land to convert away from barracks (from any type).
There is no easy place to subtract 5% from that will make the calculations correct. The best way would be to look at M9, which is the cost to convert 25% of your land. If you divide by 5 then it is the cost to convert 5% of your land. Take that amount and minus it from your starting gold. That assume that you have no Training Grounds to start with.
Alternately, if you know for sure you are going to do it right now (you've already found an open seller in your range) convert to 5% Training Grounds first. Now everything will work out fine.
That all being said, it is sub-optimal. In my experience, trying to get to exact percentages to eek out the best is a waste of money (with barracks being the exception). In your very first attack you are going to blow those percentages. Rather than trying to get that extra 5% of land (7.5% of attack) you are better off saving your money. Your mileage may vary, but that is my experience and that of the other warbook mathies that I hang out with.
