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DeeptownResourcesCalculator

Statistical Analysis of Resources in Rockbite's mobile game, "Deep Town"

Note: Best viewed on the GitHub Pages version: https://smithsoniandsp.github.io/DeeptownResourcesCalculator/

About

The reason this came about was because I—like many others in guilds—wanted to be able to look at the relative value of a resource to another.
What request is really more? 150 rubber or 500 circuits? Not necessarily in terms of coin value, but in the amount of time and resources required to create them? (Spoiler: it’s rubber)

This kind of data crunching wasn’t really well-suited for doing in a spreadsheet, but I knew I could do it much easier in a simple console program. And this is the result.

Note: Data and outputs have been updated as of 2017-08-09 to reflect changes and new resources/materials that have been added in the new Nuclear Expansion update.

Results & Data

The output from the program can be found in this repository so you do not need to download and run it, yourself, to look at the data.

All in all, most of it is probably not anything you wouldn’t have already suspected… but, to me, the real value is that it is now compartive: you can see how much total time each resource requires compared to the rest!

See the footnotes, below, for information on the data and calculation methods.

  1. Resources by Time To Produce Required Subcomponents [1][2][3]

  2. Resources by Total Value of Subcomponts

  3. Resources by Profit Margins [**4**]

  4. Resources by Time-To-Value Ratio [5]

  5. Resources by Time Required @ Max Request (5,000)

  6. Resources by Value @ Max Request (5,000)

Note: “Charcoal” is the smelted version of coal produced from wood. All calculations for resources that use coal (or graphite) use the mine-produced version of Coal. If substitued with the Charcoal version, anything that uses coal in its production chain would have increased TimeToProduce and lower ProfitMargin values.

What’s Next?

Well, I don’t really know. I didn’t really have much additional plans beyond this!

However, one potential idea that had occured to me was to break down each resource’s time requirements by the different production types (e.g., mine, smelter, crafting, chemistry, etc.) to show how the TotalTimeToProduce time is distributed between the different types…

(If there is interest in this, let me know! I probably might do this, anyways, but if I know there are people interested, it will likely happen sooner!)

Beyond that, though, I’m really not sure. I considered building an actual GUI for it and allow you to select resources, quantities, etc., and display the totals and stats for that, but I’m not really certain there would actually be much use for it.

If you have something in mind or would like to suggest, I’m open to ideas!

Calculation Footnotes

The purpose of this is NOT to ACCURATELY reflect the amount of REAL-TIME required to produce a resource, but to show how resources compare to others.

  1. For base resources (e.g., coal, iron ore, diamonds), the TimeToProduce value is the time it takes to produce one unit of that resource from a Level 8 mine (@ 17 RPM). This also factors in the availability of the resource in the mining areas:

    • Resources that have a 100% mine available (e.g., Area 1 is 100% coal) have a TimeToProduce equal to 17 / minute.

    • Resources without a 100% mine have a TimeToProduce of (17 * [max % available]) / minute.
      (e.g., Iron’s best mining areas are 30% iron, so its mining rate works out to 5.1 / minute)

    • The best estimate for the effective, online water collection rate (because it isn’t always raining) is 2.5 RPM. I haven’t been able to verify or test this, but anyone can provide a more accurate value for this, please let me know.

    • Oil rate is based off of a Level 3 oil pump (no boosts)

  2. All production rates assume online mining speeds, no crystal boosts, and no drone boosts.

  3. Simultaneous production is NOT considered in durations. When looking at the “time to produce subcomponents” for a resource, this value is essentially the amount of time it would take if you could only be doing one action at any given time (e.g., first you must mine the base ore, then smelt it into bars one at a time, etc.)

  4. The ProfitMargin value is not the true profit margin; it is the coin value of the given resource compared to the coin value of the subcomponents required to produce it.
    e.g., a copper bar is 25 coin and requires 5 copper ore (worth 2 coin/ea) to produce , so the ProfitMargin for a copper bar is: 25 - (5 * 2) = 15.

  5. The “Time-to-Value” ratio is:
    CoinValue ÷ (TimeToProduceSubcomponents + TimeToProduce)
    This represents the total amount of time spent on it and its subcomponents (mining, smelting, crafting) relative to the selling price of the item itself.

 

License:      GNU GPLv3

DeepTownResourcesCalculator - Statistical Analysis of Game Resources
         Code Copyright (C) 2017    -    SmithsonianDSP

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