Gold Chain - Cash Cow or Cash Crash?

[Snacknado]

X4 Buff lvl5-lvl6 gold mines- turn 500 gold ore depo (parrot) into 2k gold ore. x3 gold smelters- 2000 gold ore into 3000 bars. x3 coinages- 3000 bars into 2250 gold coin. minus buff cost and coal and time.....

say a rainbow cost 2.5k gc and can process about 5k gold ore deposit on a lvl5-6 fast gold mine. so ONE rainbow will process a pickaxe, turning 5k gold ore depo into 20k gold ore, using badges turning 20k gold ore into 30k bars, badging coinages turning 30k bars into 22.5k gc.... after minusing cost of rainbow, cost of pickaxe,.... SO- it will take 41 badges to turn 20k gold ore into 30k bars (lvl5 smelters) and 62 badges to turn 30k bars into 22.5k gc. Around 103 (1.2k gc per stack) badges used, 1 rainbow buff (2.5kgc) and 1 pickaxe (7.5kgc), 80k coal (400 gc) = 15344 gc. GIVEN YOU DO NOT!!! MISS A BUFF CYCLE,you will make a total profit of 7156gc


nothing in this game is "free" everything is worth something, opinions do not really matter when it comes to determining profit. It all depends on how much you can get for an item, rather how much u can get an item for. Even if you are buying rainbow for 2k gc, you can still sell it for a 500gc+ profit.

There is still value in gold chaining, if you run your chain properly (not miss a buff cycle, x4 fast lvl 5 gold mines, x3 rest of chain, or the re-built mine scheme).

Now if you are going to start to build/upgrade your gold chain that is not a good move, considering the price the granite is going to cost you in gold coins. Granite is at about 3.5 gold coin per, it will take years and years and years and years to make your gold coin back. already built gold chains, and or traders that know how to flip and manipulate granite trades to still pay .5-2 gold coin per granite are the only ones who will see profit in there TSO lifetime- GIVEN, they do not miss a buff cycle nor overpay for ore/depos.

[Snacknado]

i have 63 lvl5 coinages and i hardly run them because honestly- gold coin is a dying resrouce- meaning that their value will only likely go down. and in reality at lvl 50 (assuming your passed your gold coin upgrades) what do you really need gold coin for? nothing. But if i do run my gold chain, i do see profits.

[Perwyn]

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[Moonlime]

Thanks for posting a dictionary Perwin. hehe

[Snacknado]

Yeah but you are saying that rainbows are essential zero gc because you get them from explorers, though they hold a value of 2.5k gc or so.......

[Snacknado]

you need to take that into consideration when equating the PROFIT of running a gold chain.... that is like saying- I spend gems on parrots and get rainbow from explorers so i make 350% profit

[Snacknado]

how did u get rainbows from explorers? you need books to get artifact searches? how did u get books from artifact, you made them with resources or you ran alot of RBNS? did u spend gems, gold coin get explorers?... but yet getting rainbow buffs are free from explorers. think a little...

[Perwyn]

Definition of 'Capital Recovery'

1. The earning back of the initial funds put into an investment. Capital recovery must occur before a company can earn a profit on its investment.

Don't worry about me, I'm not stupid. My rainbow snows are free.

[Wujcio]

ehhh...

[Wimpy]

Hey guys! There is a gem sale going on. Please spend some bucks and buy gems. BB can use the income to keep our beloved game going.

Thanks.