DA I'm saying bullshit: they couldn't have spent 50kg to flip.
Reason: math. Assuming the worst case - exalting hatchlings - one hatchling is a loss of about 4-5g, which means that the so-called 50kg loss is 10-13k exalted hatchlings and dragonomics chart don't show any spike in hatchling price. If you count level 5 dragons as the exalted population, that's a similar loss (assuming ~10-12kt/g price per merc dragon). If they were so stupid as to exalt level 1 adults, that's about 7k dragons which is also reasonably far away from reality. They could have used about 50kg but the actual loss shouldn't have been bigger than 10-15kg - or they truly suck at spending money.
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I'm saying bullshit: they couldn't have spent 50kg to flip.
Reason: math. Assuming the worst case - exalting hatchlings - one hatchling is a loss of about 4-5g, which means that the so-called 50kg loss is 10-13k exalted hatchlings and dragonomics chart don't show any spike in hatchling price. If you count level 5 dragons as the exalted population, that's a similar loss (assuming ~10-12kt/g price per merc dragon). If they were so stupid as to exalt level 1 adults, that's about 7k dragons which is also reasonably far away from reality. They could have used about 50kg but the actual loss shouldn't have been bigger than 10-15kg - or they truly suck at spending money.