Post by r0b1et on Sept 13, 2012 9:02:32 GMT -5
THE IMPORTANT POINT HERE,
YOU HAVE SMALL FLUCTUATIONS (1 or 2% in weekly training) IN ACADEMIES OVER A MONTH, BUT ACTUALLY SPEND LESS TO KEEP THE AVERAGE... YOU GET EITHER, THE SAME TRAINING FOR LESS MONEY, OR MORE TRAINING FOR THE SAME MONEY... AS WELL AS SCREWING THE OTHERS.
All you have to do is invest $0 most weeks (keep hold of what you would have invested), then on the first finance update of each month (easy to remember which I hope) invest a very large amount, the sum of what you would normally invest over the missed weeks (4 or 5 times more... could well be the maximum allowed). That will pop your academy back past where it started, and was the same price.
READ ON FOR WHY IT WORKS:
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The new investment/academy formula is significantly changed compared to the old one... the old one worked out the "equilibrium academy" for your investment (as a fraction of the average) and then moved your academy a bit in that direction, the bigger the gap the more it moved... but it was not linear, not even close. The new system improvements are completely linear, the formula is (this didn't take very long to work out):
acedemy change = -0.025 x (AcadLev^1.5) + 0.2 * (Investment/Average)
note that at any academy (and we all have a single value when the calculation applies), the change is ENTIRELY linear. Also since the average is last weeks average, our big investments don't count for the average they are compared with - but they do for the regular investors... as long as we all do them together, we all benefit. To maintain an academy, you can invest enough so that movement is 0... or let is drop for a few weeks and them push it past with a big investment, and the change is easier as your level is smaller, so on the smaller slope. The same goes for raising, best to go in one big jump, not steady.
In essence what would happen given even a fairly small number of participants (50 teams would have a ~1% effect on the average) we'd have the big investment driving the average up quite a lot, the next week we invest 0 (so average irrelevent) and everyone else trying to invest to maintain etc has to notably increase their investment, the week after that average has dropped as we invested 0, but the raise from everyone else means the average has dropped, but isn't back to where it started... so the next week ave drops again, but not the whole way still... then the last update of the month, the ave is roughly back to where it came from, so on the first of the month, BANG, we invest big again against the low average and the cycle restarts.
To put some basic numbers, lets assume 3000 teams exist and on Sept 24th, the SA ave is $25,000 and that 100 teams will be investing 0, but 5 times the average on the 1st of the month.
1 Oct - big invest - used ave=25,000 new average=(25,000*(2900)+100*5*25000)/3000=$28,300
8 Oct - no invest - used ave=28,300 new average=(28,300*(2900)+0)/3000=$27,400
15 Oct - no invest - used ave=27,400 new average=(27,400*(2900)+0)/3000=$26,500
22 Oct - no invest - used ave=26,500 new average=(26,500*(2900)+0)/3000=$25,600
29 Oct - no invest - used ave=25,600 new average=(25,600*(2900)+0)/3000=$24,700
5 Nov - big invest - used ave=24,700 new average=(24,700*(2900)+100*5*25000)/3000=$28,100
12 Oct - no invest - used ave=28,100 ...
etc... lots of money wasted by people not involved, vast amounts saved by those that are.
Sounds like fun eh?
Who's in?
YOU HAVE SMALL FLUCTUATIONS (1 or 2% in weekly training) IN ACADEMIES OVER A MONTH, BUT ACTUALLY SPEND LESS TO KEEP THE AVERAGE... YOU GET EITHER, THE SAME TRAINING FOR LESS MONEY, OR MORE TRAINING FOR THE SAME MONEY... AS WELL AS SCREWING THE OTHERS.
All you have to do is invest $0 most weeks (keep hold of what you would have invested), then on the first finance update of each month (easy to remember which I hope) invest a very large amount, the sum of what you would normally invest over the missed weeks (4 or 5 times more... could well be the maximum allowed). That will pop your academy back past where it started, and was the same price.
READ ON FOR WHY IT WORKS:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The new investment/academy formula is significantly changed compared to the old one... the old one worked out the "equilibrium academy" for your investment (as a fraction of the average) and then moved your academy a bit in that direction, the bigger the gap the more it moved... but it was not linear, not even close. The new system improvements are completely linear, the formula is (this didn't take very long to work out):
acedemy change = -0.025 x (AcadLev^1.5) + 0.2 * (Investment/Average)
note that at any academy (and we all have a single value when the calculation applies), the change is ENTIRELY linear. Also since the average is last weeks average, our big investments don't count for the average they are compared with - but they do for the regular investors... as long as we all do them together, we all benefit. To maintain an academy, you can invest enough so that movement is 0... or let is drop for a few weeks and them push it past with a big investment, and the change is easier as your level is smaller, so on the smaller slope. The same goes for raising, best to go in one big jump, not steady.
In essence what would happen given even a fairly small number of participants (50 teams would have a ~1% effect on the average) we'd have the big investment driving the average up quite a lot, the next week we invest 0 (so average irrelevent) and everyone else trying to invest to maintain etc has to notably increase their investment, the week after that average has dropped as we invested 0, but the raise from everyone else means the average has dropped, but isn't back to where it started... so the next week ave drops again, but not the whole way still... then the last update of the month, the ave is roughly back to where it came from, so on the first of the month, BANG, we invest big again against the low average and the cycle restarts.
To put some basic numbers, lets assume 3000 teams exist and on Sept 24th, the SA ave is $25,000 and that 100 teams will be investing 0, but 5 times the average on the 1st of the month.
1 Oct - big invest - used ave=25,000 new average=(25,000*(2900)+100*5*25000)/3000=$28,300
8 Oct - no invest - used ave=28,300 new average=(28,300*(2900)+0)/3000=$27,400
15 Oct - no invest - used ave=27,400 new average=(27,400*(2900)+0)/3000=$26,500
22 Oct - no invest - used ave=26,500 new average=(26,500*(2900)+0)/3000=$25,600
29 Oct - no invest - used ave=25,600 new average=(25,600*(2900)+0)/3000=$24,700
5 Nov - big invest - used ave=24,700 new average=(24,700*(2900)+100*5*25000)/3000=$28,100
12 Oct - no invest - used ave=28,100 ...
etc... lots of money wasted by people not involved, vast amounts saved by those that are.
Sounds like fun eh?
Who's in?