So does the Granite pit consumes something to produce the granite, and what resources will the pit require to upgrade to lvl 5?
So does the Granite pit consumes something to produce the granite, and what resources will the pit require to upgrade to lvl 5?
Granite Pit doesn't make any sense. Aside from the cost (always with the gem purchases for new buildings now? really?), it uses up "3 Granite" to make "1 Granite"...what's the point? Just set it to have 2000 less granite if you don't want more than 1000 granite to come out of it. Jeez. I suppose you're hoping people will accidentally miss the fact that you're not going to offer up the full 3000 granite that comes with the pit, and just pop out 1k for 'em, in order to steal away gems from people who don't read the fine details. Ridiculous. Almost as bad as the official "decoration" objects included in the "get a rare building" boxes. Shame on you people. Just don't put the pit in. It's worthless.
Here's some economy math for you to consider:
If you buy a Granite Pit for 1975 gems. AT best you can get is 4000 granite. (efforts require, upgrading it, upgrading cost associated to it, cost of the buff to get it to spit out x4, waiting a long time to get the payout.).
Now if you spend 1995 gems to buy an Improved Silo. SELL it on Trade for 24,000 coins (probably for more since people are selling them now at 26,500). Take those coins and buy granite from others say at a rate of 3 coins per 1 granite. You'd get 8,000 granite (or more even). You'd probably get this faster than waiting it out on the granite pit. Not to mention you get double the amount!
Basically TLDR:
Granite Pit = VERY BAD!
Post 3 is the important one for me. Knowing the costs, I'll pass.
I think their reasoning for that is to make Omni seed have some other value. Otherwise people would put all their Omni seed on granite pits and not exotic wood tree or gold mines. (assuming later they'll bring out the exotic tree). Assuming that exotic wood tree will consume a different ratio than 3. Of course all this assumes BB had some actual reasoning. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
It would sure be nice if after a BB announcement there was nothing but praises. They test things and get tons of bad comments, then go ahead and introduce into the game. Sounds a little screwy to me.
If something can go wrong, it will.
I think everything sounds good as far as the L6 Goldmine and the Star coins from xp for level 50 players, but the granite pit needs to be a 1-1 ratio or I will never buy one. That is all I have to say about it.
So, 2k gems to get 1k granite fully built, but takes months, or I could run a ML or 2 and get 1k granite in 30 minutes. Let me think about that for a minute....yeah, no.
Ok lets assume this is only about granite refills:
A granite pit, level 5, produces 480 granite per 96h base and uses 1440 from the deposit. We will use a rainbow snow on this granite pit, to produce a total of 1920 granite.
Assuming omni deposits starts out and sells for a slight premium over gold deposit, so 1.6 per deposit compared to golds 1.5. 1440 deposit * 1.5 = 2160 deposit cost. add in 2400 for rainbow snow. that is a 4560 cost. The granite produced in the 96: 1920*3 = 5760. For now, it will be profitable to refill, assuming omni stays near gold in value.
5760 - 2400 - 1440 * X = 0, to figure out at what price per omni deposit granite mine becomes no-profit: 2.33 per omni deposit.
Omni is 5 per gem, while gold parrots are 6.66 per gem. This means naturally, omni deposits should sell for 1.32x as much per quantity as gold deposits. Given current 1.5 price on gold deposits, this would be a 1.98 price on omni's starting out if compared by gem purchases.
Queston is: will a lapse in coin production and a surge in granite do to granites price? If the gem ratio of gold to omni comes into play, the 2.73 price of granite is the equilibrium.
Likely on Ares, granite pit is slightly not worth it. On Zeus, granite pit is slightly worth it. On German ancient servers, granite pit is the best gift in a long long time.
Overall my reaction: this seems like one of the better balanced updates BB has done in a while. Its not great, its not awful, its fair. Of course if i made some sort of error in one of these basic calculations, my opinion could change.
My biggest comment would be that cycle time of the granite pit could possibly be improved a little bit, to maybe 45 minutes. Could be nice if omni-seeds replaced wheat deposits in adv drops.
More of the same "new" content with a different bow? I will give more of the "same" towards my gem accumulation.