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When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:59 am
by kinc4id
I currently have a mining rate of 72/day. What exactly does this mean? 72 once every 24 hours, 3 every hour or 1 every 20 minutes?

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:57 am
by granthor
The total of 72/day is how it's calculated (presumably 3 mines and 24 total outposts?). This is spread equally across the day as you say, so you actually gain 1 Np every 20 minutes, as you say.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:28 am
by kinc4id
Great, thanks.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:09 pm
by therealben
To know how frequently it's generated without calculating, tap a mine at look at its "+1 Np every #h" message.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:21 pm
by topkilla
You should actually be generating Np roughly every .3 hours.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:51 pm
by Champinoman
When trying to estimate the rate of gaining neptunium it is important to know that each of your mines acts independently.

To explain; If you have 2 mines and 12 outposts you are producing 24 neptunium per day. However, you cannot assume that you will get 1 neptunium per hour. Each mine will generate 1 neptunium every 2 hours (12 per mine per day) and this is calculated from the last time that it generate neptunium. So if you build the 2 mines at the same time then they will generate their neptunium together every 2 hours.

This can cause a little bit of confusion when the neptunium numbers in the leaderboard are changing in a rather unexpected fashion.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 6:15 pm
by kinc4id
topkilla wrote:You should actually be generating Np roughly every .3 hours.


Actually it's every 0.3333 hours which is exactly 20 minutes. ;)

@Champinonan Thanks for the clarification. So in my example (3 mines, 24 outpost) every mine generates one neptunium every hour depending on when I build them. Thanks.

Re: When is neptunium generated?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 7:17 pm
by Champinoman
kinc4id wrote:@Champinonan Thanks for the clarification. So in my example (3 mines, 24 outpost) every mine generates one neptunium every hour depending on when I build them. Thanks.

Yeah. In your example you wont even notice what I was talking about because the neptunium is fairly constant.

But if you had 4 mines and only 6 outposts you'd certainly notice not receiving neptunium every hour.