After reading what Windswept has to say on the forums and a bit of thought, I have come up with something that will work 100%.. It is extremely generic that even the formula is unknown.
Let me show you....
We have a function "f" with variables x,y,z (Long coord,lat coord, depth),type (ore / entmatter), time (?????) which must equal to a 1 for a positive result.
f(x,y,z,type,time)=1 Thats it, there is a nice simple math function that will work 100% of the time when the correct variables are given.
Man R4t you are a
it cant work as we do not know what the variables are..... Not true, I know all the variables except for ONE which is the almighty time or cycle.
Lets look at the cycles of time
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
24 hours = 1 day
+-30 days = 1 week
etc... etc... etc
One or more of those cycles must make our functions result true, so instead of running around playing with x,y,x,type,time all at once, I just need to play with time as others are known and I want to keep them constant
Pretty easy I would say..... The cycle / timer would be the hardest nut to crack. So I am rationing myself to one bomb / probe a max cycle length (weather it be hour, day, month, year etc that is still to be determined) until I can predict the cycle of the cell (x,y,z combination) accurately.
Imagine what I could do if I could say that coordinate set x,y,z appears every day / week / month etc. That would give me a 100% hit rate on that coord at that time.... Please note yes that is a 100% hit rate !!!
My gut is telling me that it will only be active for a quarter of a cycle (25% of the time). Speaking of 25%
f(x,y,z,type,time) on average approximates to .25.
Lets say that every cell contains a deposit but at varying depths, it should take me 4 charges to determine at which depth the deposit is. Again 25% hitrate.
We could go more into this idea of 25% What we have is a cube f(x,y,z,type,time)*4=1 consisting of 64 possible coordinates 4^3