Luck Bonus - Earth Empires Forum

Navisis

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Apr 24th 2011, 14:42:34

does anyone know the impact to the explore returns of the luck bonus? It just says that it increases explore returns, and thats about it.

Drinks

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Apr 24th 2011, 14:46:14

explore returns, missiles, random events (eg food boom)

I think thats it.

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Navisis

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Apr 24th 2011, 15:04:45

Yes -- But whats the impact? If I have 5% in luck, does that mean that I get my regular explore return (say 10 acres) multiplied by 5%, for a total of 10.5/acres/turn?

Drinks

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Apr 24th 2011, 15:33:26

From what i gather it works out to be a 10.5 explore rate

When you explore and it says 10 acres per turn you might get 8,9,10,11,12 etc etc

So in their forumulas for missiles and explore they have a random fact. It increase the random factor positively by 5%.

Edited By: Drinks on Apr 24th 2011, 15:36:55
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Drinks

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Apr 24th 2011, 15:39:35

I know that the admins posted somewhere about something like: missiles have a huge random factor, therefore getting 5% luck wont result in a clear 5% more missiles.

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Navisis

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Apr 24th 2011, 17:44:19

Alright -- Thank you. Im thinking that maybe sinking bonus' into luck was not such a good idea. At least with turns or the positive effect bonus, you can know 100% the impact.

Marshal

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Apr 24th 2011, 20:13:13

luck is permanent bonus although its benefits are "bit" hard to see, if you don't like luck then building costs, defense or expenses is good option or just turns.

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bluehawk.a31_07

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Apr 25th 2011, 11:44:21

would it be good to invest some luck?

Drinks

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Apr 25th 2011, 13:30:05

Use the permanent bonuses early in the set since they benefit the entire set.

Which one is actually most beneficial... Depends on the server and play style. Eg if ur going to 10k acres the building cost one is a waste, but if ur going to 40k acres then sure get building cost. Or if ur in alliance server and run low military then u dont really need expense bonus, but if ur an indi then u prob want the expense bonus.

etc etc
So use logic and you can figure out whats best for your style

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Marshal

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Apr 25th 2011, 19:52:00

you can invest few days points to luck but I don't see benefit investing all bonus-points on it.

Haseeb

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May 4th 2011, 5:24:35

haha now wouldnt that be so awkward if you lost units on the attack and the defensive!

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May 4th 2011, 23:13:52

I tend to go building costs early and private market units late. What I do in between depends on strat.

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bluehawk.a31_07

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May 9th 2011, 14:49:18

thanks.

braden

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May 10th 2011, 12:44:46

You discovered 779 new acres of land in 101 turns.

average of 7.71 acres per turn, while i have an explore of 7 per turn. i have 9.5% luck in that country

bastion63

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May 10th 2011, 20:05:33

mold

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May 11th 2011, 2:14:50

Does luck also affect the frequencies of negative occurrences; earthquakes, droughts and such?

Marshal

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May 11th 2011, 20:48:51

no effect on those.

maverickmd

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May 27th 2011, 4:47:22

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Navisis

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Jun 4th 2011, 15:01:30

so.. the alliance reset has ended and I have one thought.

In the alliance server, if your going to go all-explore, the luck bonus does increase the explore rates. However, i'm not convinced that its any better than investing in 100% resource decay (for a casher), and then going for turns or building costs.

Marshal

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Jun 4th 2011, 20:56:56

alliance ain't over yet.

yea luck effects on explore but benefit alot from it would need to invest alot on luck.

Navisis

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Jun 4th 2011, 21:14:59

ok.. so fast forward the post to 2 hours from now and alliance is over. It was meant as a generalization.

and yes.. my post was not meant to ask if Luck effected explore, but, that I'm not sure that the total effect of luck is any better than some of the other bonus' on the alliance server, after investing in luck for about a month's worth of bonus'.

Marshal

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Jun 5th 2011, 20:23:01

test it at ffa, 1 country invests to luck, 2nd to something else and 3rd to 3rd bonus etc

Zaka

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Jun 6th 2011, 0:23:56

hmm, some luck early is probably good for all-x countries..

Argus

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Jun 9th 2011, 1:41:37

I still can't see the benefit of luck being better than putting the bonuses into a stat that directly effects your playstyle.

bungy

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Jun 13th 2011, 18:29:09

Is it better to get extra turns or boom bonuses?

Marshal

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Jun 13th 2011, 21:27:23

extra turns at start and later when your country is fully running then boom bonuses and permanent bonuses, if you are techer and not gonna do mbr-switch then extra turns mostly.

qzjul

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Jun 15th 2011, 5:49:12

Navisis: but cashers can avoid resource decay with bushels relatively trivially...

i figured if i invest in luck, beyond about 20kA it should turn into about 100A per day extra, which isn't much, but is also non-trivial

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Navisis

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Jun 16th 2011, 2:13:54

well, if each acre gives I dunno.. ~500/cash/turn, then those 100 acres is an extra 4m per day, growing exponentially as the 100acres per day compounds.. thats for sure not trivial.

However, in alliance or any other longer term server, resource decay hits 100% in week 5 or so? from that point on, you don't have to take a loss on the bushels your buying each day for 40/45/50 that your going to eventually de-stock at 34/35.

With that in mind.. whats better? .. depends on your stock?

qzjul

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Jun 16th 2011, 17:10:33

depends on your stock and how long you're stocking for ya, and how you're going to destock

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Navisis

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Jun 24th 2011, 22:09:53

Ill try it next reset in primary and see what happens to my casher with 100% resource decay.

Xliest

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Jun 30th 2011, 20:16:46

lol i think your doing it wrong, accounting for population growth, spy production, and random factors, you only really need to have 2 turns of food on you at any one time while yes this is time consuming it is also very effecient, and realistically you will never need decay reduction, unless you intend to stock cash and go way over 2bill that is the only way it could help you.

and if by week 5 you have 100% reduction, you are then missing out on 120 turns which is about 800 land, somthing that needlessly stocking cash cant reproduce, just my two cents

If i had to chose i would go PM increase in the second month, and mostly turns in the first month...

Navisis

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Jul 16th 2011, 4:22:22

Originally posted by Xliest:

Well.. I was considering stocking more than 2B dollars at one time yes :).

Rockman

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Jul 16th 2011, 4:33:04

Originally posted by Xliest:

Its not very efficient if you're exploring. Batch exploring will get you way more land than exploring 1 turn at a time - well more than 800 acres of difference, in fact.

Also, it takes way too much time playing that way.

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