OK, so here are preliminary observations based on anonymous player who sent detailed info up to province 30 (1*):
- Your own SS increases linearly at least until L30, so if your TSS in province 1 is X, then in province 2 it will be 2X, in 10 will be 10X, in 20 - 20X etc. This is the same how your own SS ramped up previously (except the initial TSS is different)
- Enemy TSS is fixed to your own for each province, and matches Dony's table, i.e. if your own base TSS is X, then enemy TSS in province 5 will be 0.63X, in province 10 will be 1.15X, 1.58X in province 20 and 1.94X in province 30.
- Relative costs of goods are the same as for the Spire, you can look at relative values under Catering Costs here:
https://minmaxgame.com/spire-requirements-calculation/
- Costs of catering are directly proportionate to
your own TSS. Not to enemy TSS. This means that catering does NOT experience double ramp up in difficulty that fighting does. For fighting, your own TSS grows, and your enemy TSS
factor grows. This does not happen with catering, so it grows in linear fashion, e.g. catering province 30 is "only" 30x more expensive than province 1.
- You can actually use my Spire requirements calculator (
http://bit.ly/spire-req-calc) to calculate your costs of goods for any particular encounter. You will need to use 3.3 factor to your own tournament squad size in a particular encounter. So if you see your own TSS as 1000, you need to type in 3300 and the first line in the spreadsheet will give you your catering costs.
This is all for 1* for now, but if Dony data is correct, then it is easy to generalize it to other star tiers. Don't know yet how base TSSo relates to base SSSo as I haven't seen that data.