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.
Why the hell would they be buying and exalting hatchlings? 50000g x 1000t / 13000t per levelled dragon they were buying as mercs = 3846 dragons. They could easily have bought 3846 dragons as a merc and exalted them.
AYRT You're bad with math and budgeting - you're confusing spending 50kg and losing 50kg: spending 50kg buys you 3846 dragons, but you're not losing 50kg buying those dragons as each dragon exalted gives you 8250 and you're back to ~32kg, ie a loss of only 18kg.
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(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)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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(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)50000g x 1000t / 13000t per levelled dragon they were buying as mercs = 3846 dragons. They could easily have bought 3846 dragons as a merc and exalted them.
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(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)You're bad with math and budgeting - you're confusing spending 50kg and losing 50kg: spending 50kg buys you 3846 dragons, but you're not losing 50kg buying those dragons as each dragon exalted gives you 8250 and you're back to ~32kg, ie a loss of only 18kg.
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(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)