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The help file says that for each individual squad they have a certain percent chance to produce double what they normally produce. This means if you have 1 squad with 20 miners in it, they would normally produce 40 coal and have an x% chance to produce an additional 40 coal (double normal production).
This means that if you have 15 miners in a squad, they'll normally produce 30 coal per tick and if the bonus is triggered they'll produce an additional 30 coal.
What the current system is doing is giving a flat bonus on the total number of miners you have in the mine minus a static amount per missing miner per squad. So if you have 240 miners in a mine, you will get 24 commodities as a bonus. The type of commodity doesn't matter, the mine rate doesn't matter. So for a lode like iron where a squad of 20 miners would normally produce 6 iron per tick, if they bonus is triggered and they have 240 miners in the mine, they get an additional 24 iron instead of an additional 6 iron. While this is great for low-yield commodities like iron and stone, it is terrible for coal and other high-yield commodities.
Here is the bug: If you have 12 squads with 20 miners in each, you get 24 commodities if a bonus is triggered. However, if one squad has 19 miners, you only get 23. If you have two squads that have 19 miners, you only get 22. If you have 11 squads with 20 and 1 squad with 15, you only get 19 commodities on a bonus. Basically for every miner you have missing from a perfect 20 x (# of squads) you lose 1 commodity.
The current formula is (squads * 2) - ((20 * squads) - total miners in mine))
So if you have 12 squads in a mine and one of them has 18 miners in it, you end up with 22 bonus commodities.
The formula should be miners in squad * mine rate * 2.
So if you have 12 squads in a mine and one of them has 18 miners in it, if the squad with 18 miners triggers the bonus on a coal lode you'll receive 36 extra coal but the squads with a full 20 miners in them would trigger a +40 bonus.
The past two formulas that have been used for bonus ticks have been factoring total miners in the MINE not the squad.
Also, I haven't ever seen a double tick. If you have 12 squads in a mine you should have a small chance at having more than one squad trigger their bonuses, you should actually have an extremely small chance at having all 12 squads trigger a bonus. A level 5 squad with level 5 spec in a commodity would have 10% chance to produce a bonus of double their normal yield. If you had 12 squads like that you would have a 10% chance for at least two squads to produce a bonus on the same tick. A handful of us have been monitoring this pretty closely and haven't seen a single instance where more than one squad produces a bonus on the same tick. With a 10% at only level 5, I would suspect that we would have seen it if it was possible, so I'm assuming it isn't right now.
The bonuses for levels and specializations are there, they are just I think an order of magnitude smaller than you are expecting.
The best answer to this is that it essentially doubles the output. If you produce 1 commodity, it generates 1 more. If you produce 40 commodities, it generates 40 more. The bonus is 1:1.
And yes, coal is mined at a rate of 40 coal per squad of 20 miners per day.
The bonuses for levels and specs are there, correct, but it is bugged and not working correctly. There is no interpretation of the verbiage in the help file that would result in what it is doing now.
And to put numbers in the above:
-3 days ago: total raw stone mined: 22k, total coal mined: 19k
-2 days ago: total stone: 47k, total coal: 20k
-1 day ago: total stone: 40k, total coal: 20k
-overall in last 9 days: 178k stone, 199k coal.
while before the increase in stone we'd normally see 20-25k coal mined vs 10-12k stone.
So, I guess is obvious we need more coal that needs be about as plentiful as all other mined raw materials per period. (or maybe if raw stone was made the material needed to construct new mines instead of refined stone, could potentially fix the issue too)
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Normal yield per tick for platinum is 17. Bronislav got 252 platinum from a bonus tick. Normal rank points would have been 136 and he got 2016 rank points in one hour.
True, I like that too. Perhaps move the camp somewhere else where there aren't 40+ rooms all named the same thing.
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What about giving Barakus the ability to sell (hire out) singular miners, with the sole purpose of boosting a partial squad back to full twenty?
Available only for miners, not army legions.
Something like...
And perhaps (if its possible?) to balance, adding new squad members to a mining group will immediately the experience level, but because the squad is partially trained already, they will overall gain experience back quicker (similar to how ship crews work).