R4tt3xx
I want to believe
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- Alexis Sky Greenstar
I wanted to show the community this as I found it a just a teeny bit interesting.
The average hit rate in mining has been +- 27.1% for almost forever. So I was wondering if we could get to the value without really mining.. and I can come pretty close.
The math is really simple, we have 3 claim types (1) Ore, (2) Entmatter and (3) Treasure. Yes I know that treasure is a "recent" addition but it does exist and such is a part of this calculation.
Now the above gives us a native chance of 33% to hit any one of these resources, but the number is too high. The rest of the calculation comes from what you can call over or underlapping. The game has a maximum field size of 8192m per server and due to the fact that our mining probes are circles not squares we can only cover +- 88.47% (Using a radius of 55m) of that area. so 0.8847*33.34 would give us 29.5% chance to hit. So I am about 2% off of the average.
What do you guys think so far ?
( I do realise that the math is not quite right, I will try to clean it up a bit)
The average hit rate in mining has been +- 27.1% for almost forever. So I was wondering if we could get to the value without really mining.. and I can come pretty close.
The math is really simple, we have 3 claim types (1) Ore, (2) Entmatter and (3) Treasure. Yes I know that treasure is a "recent" addition but it does exist and such is a part of this calculation.
Now the above gives us a native chance of 33% to hit any one of these resources, but the number is too high. The rest of the calculation comes from what you can call over or underlapping. The game has a maximum field size of 8192m per server and due to the fact that our mining probes are circles not squares we can only cover +- 88.47% (Using a radius of 55m) of that area. so 0.8847*33.34 would give us 29.5% chance to hit. So I am about 2% off of the average.
What do you guys think so far ?
( I do realise that the math is not quite right, I will try to clean it up a bit)
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