Not a Bug Night Essence costs are inconstant

[DeletedUser778]

Game version: v1.1.6-(f53cbb5) (2016-03-09 10:46)
Game world: zz1
Browser + version: Waterfox 44.0.3
Flash Player version: 21.0.0.182
Operating System: Win 7

Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080
Account name: LordB
Humans or Elves: Elf

Reproducibility: 5/5

Current situation:
Night Essence costs:
Lvl 1 Farm -> 46 cocoons and 20 sheep for 5 essence, so 9,2 cocoons and 4 sheep per essence.
Lvl 2 Farm -> 70 cocoons and 30 sheep for 7 essence, so 10 cocoons and 4,29 sheep per essence.
Lvl 3 Farm -> 93 cocoons and 40 sheep for 10 essence, so 9,3 cocoons and 4 sheep per essence.
Lvl 4 Farm -> not yet known

Expected situation:
In a level 2 Farm the production of Night Essence should cost 64, or 65 cocoons and 28 sheep

Reproduction Steps
1. Compare the costs per Night Essence in Night Farms of different levels

 

[DeletedUser629]

Thank you for your report, LordB

As you can see, Muf-Muf will investigate this matter further.

 

[DeletedUser778]

I was curious, if only the costs for night essence are affected and made a sheet with the values I have available.

As you can see all cost vary between -0,94% and +1,56%, based on lvl 1 production as 100%, except essence,
with increased production costs of 8,7% / 7,14% at lvl 2.

For cocoons I find it a little odd, that with such nice numbers for lvl 1 (32k coins for 40 cocoons / 800 coins per cocoon), the costs increase to 65k for 80 / 81k for 100 and not stay at 800/cocoon for 64k for 80 and 80k for 100, but I see 1,5% still as a normal difference, but not the 7%+ difference for essence.

 

[DeletedUser1250]

Lvl 4 farm --> 116 cocoons and 50 dream sheep for 12 essences, so 9,67 cocoons and 4,17 sheep per essence

 

[DeletedUser1075]

So farms are more resource efficient at level 1 and 3 than they are at levels 2 and 4? How odd.

 

[DeletedUser778]

Looks like the devs calculated the costs already including 60% portal boost.
With 60% boost the produced amount of night essence increases, because for lvl 4 12*1,6 = 19,2 is somehow rounded up to 20 and not down to 19.
I don't it know for lvl 2 but I'm pretty sure it is the same there. 7 x 1,6 = 11,2 rounded up to 12.
With this numbers the costs are more constant.

 

[Muf-Muf]

After further investigation this seems to work as intended. Thanks for the (very) detailed report, though!