[Guide] The Math of boosting mines / elixirs & Barracks

Boosting Barracks:

-Barracks boosting costs 25 gems for 45 minutes duration
-45 minutes of boost saves you time of 135 minutes (2 hrs 15 mins)

Compared to instantizing troops:
-25 gems straight up would saves you 1hr 34 mins
-1 gem saves you 4 mins 6 secs; do that 25 times and you save 1 hr 42 mins

Pros of boosting barracks:
-Saves you some gems (about 25% saving)

Cons of boosting barracks:
-You have to wait 45 minutes to realize the full gain


Mines & Elixirs boosting:
This differs from lv to lv

BIG EDIT!!!!! I just realized that boosting mines / elixir only doubles the production
Lv 11 Mines/ Elixirs boosting
-Boosting costs 20 gems for 6 hours duration for 2x production
-lv 11 mines produces 3000 per hour
-6 hrs of boost will net you 18000 gold/elixir
-1 gem nets you 900 gold/elixir

Compared to instant gold/elixir
-2000 gems will get you 6 Million of gold/elixir (1 gem = 3000)
-1133 gems will get you 3 Million of gold/elixir (1 gem = 2647)
-389 gems will get you 600K of gold/elixir (1 gem = 1542)

Conclusion:
- Never boost your mines / elixirs
- Instant gold/elixir gets cheaper the more you buy (bulk discount)
- Boosting gold/elixir requires you to wait 6 hours to realize the profit

thanks for writing this up.

I havent done it yet, so in theory i just have to boost 1 barrack and i constantly get troops pumping out? for 45 mins?

Barracks boosting calculation
-Barracks boosting costs 25 gems for 45 minutes duration
-45 minutes of boost saves you time of 135 minutes (2 hrs 15 mins)
boost duration: 45 minutes
boosting speed: 4X


in barracks, 1 gem = 4mins, 06 secs.
the gem price for 135 minutes would be: approximately 33 gems
Conclusion: as expected, it is cheaper to go for the decreaed waiting times (25%)

Resource boosting
On a goldmine level 11:
normal speed: 3000/hour
boost speed: 6000/hour
boost duration: 6 hours
boosting speed: 2X
18000 profit
cost: 20 gems

Buy 18000 gold costs 12,6 gems
Conclusion: new method is cheaper than buying for the treasure menu. (47,4%)

Personally I am now changing from spending gems on insta-troups to the new barracks boosting. I don't mind waiting a little bit and saves me 25%. Spending gems on building troops is the most profitable vs all other methods if you are farming.

Thx for the heads up coolz, i was doing exactly the same. :p
You can verify and take my math and put it in your post so it will be easier to find for people.

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Originally Posted by baldiesrt

thanks for writing this up.

I havent done it yet, so in theory i just have to boost 1 barrack and i constantly get troops pumping out? for 45 mins?

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Yes the speed x 4
A barbarian will take 5 secs each to make
the time saving is 45 minutes x 3 = 135 minutes

Its a small saving IMO compared to just instantizing ur troops
with boosting you have to wait 45 minutes to realize your 135 minutes saving
with instantizing, well its instant!

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Its a small saving IMO compared to just instantizing ur troops
with boosting you have to wait 45 minutes to realize your 135 minutes saving
with instantizing, well its instant!

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True, it is a difference of 25%

All comes down to how much gems you want to spend.
If you have some time, playing with the booster for an evening would be good to save up a bit on the gems.

Of course, instant is instant joy, cash and clash!

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Originally Posted by Coolz

Boosting Barracks:

-Barracks boosting costs 25 gems for 45 minutes duration
-45 minutes of boost saves you time of 135 minutes (2 hrs 15 mins)

Compared to instantizing troops:
-25 gems straight up would saves you 1hr 34 mins
-1 gem saves you 4 mins 6 secs; do that 25 times and you save 1 hr 42 mins


Mines & Elixirs boosting:
This differs from lv to lv

Lv 11 Mines/ Elixirs boosting
-Boosting costs 20?? gems for 6 hours duration
-6 hrs of boost will net you 54000 gold/elixir

Compared to instant gold/elixir
-2000 gems will get you 6 Million of gold/elixir


Still preparing and writing

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When boosting gold mines it is only x2 boost not x4.

Boosted gold mine will generate at 6000 per hour. The incremental increase for the 20 gems is 3000x6 which is 18000 gold for 20 gems and a 6 hour wait.

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Originally Posted by velkanius

Personally I am now changing from spending gems on insta-troups to the new barracks boosting. I don't mind waiting a little bit and saves me 25%.

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You say this like u still have an option lol

My issue is that I only insta-trooped ocassionally and only when it was around 5gemz, like for the last 10minz of my dragon training. Now with that option gone and this new expensive boosting in place the minimum I can spend for any help with long train times is 25gemz.
I would have much preferred them to keep the option of either open. Then again they want u spending 25...not a mere 5, clearly.
I'm not shopping at Cosco here...I dont need Balk buying discounts lol soundz like a commercial, 'Take the whole boost and save 25% today!'

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Originally Posted by wicKedShaydes

You say this like u still have an option lol

My issue is that I only insta-trooped ocassionally and only when it was around 5gemz, like for the last 10minz of my dragon training. Now with that option gone and this new expensive boosting in place the minimum I can spend for any help with long train times is 25gemz.
I would have much preferred them to keep the option of either open. Then again they want u spending 25...not a mere 5, clearly.
I'm not shopping at Cosco here...I dont need Balk buying discounts lol soundz like a commercial, 'Take the whole boost and save 25% today!'

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Am I missing something. I can still insta troop on my barracks. Doesn't seem to have changed for me 8 gems for 25 minute/60 archers.

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Originally Posted by velkanius

Thx for the heads up coolz, i was doing exactly the same. :p
You can verify and take my math and put it in your post so it will be easier to find for people.

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Your calculations and mine are generally the same :D
Buying gold/ elixir depends if your buying in small quantity or big quantity