[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
IMPORTANT! Resource boosting now pays off!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Coolz
Boosting Barracks:
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
Not true anymore!
after the post x-mas update Jan 8 2014 mines and elix boost costs 11 gems for 24 hours.
3000x24h=72000
72000/11 gems = 6545,5
Conclusion: Now you get more than DOUBLE the resources when boosting mines/elix compared to buying them with gems!
(if I'm not totally wrong!)
Now let's just hope it stays that way!