Crystal Mine

Description

Crystal is a precious resource requiring special mining techniques to harvest.

Info

Level	Build/Upgrade Costs			Build/Upgrade Times	Sell Price
	Gold	Crystal	Castle Level
1	12000	X	3	Instant	4200 Gold
2	3000	600	9	120 Minutes
3	5000	1000	15	240 Minutes
4	8000	1600	21	360 Minutes
5	12000	2400	27	480 Minutes

Hours / Level	1		2		3		4		5
		/ Hour		/ Hour		/ Hour		/ Hour		/ Hour
1 Hour	60	60	70	70	80	80	90	90	100	100
3 Hours	153	51	178	59	204	68	229	76	255	85
6 Hours	252	42	294	49	336	56	378	63	420	70
9 Hours	296	33	349	39	395	44	445	49	494	55

Crystal Mines per Player Level

1. Player Level 3
2. Player Level 7
3. Player Level 10
4. Player Level 14
5. Player Level 17
6. Player Level 21

Crystal Mine Misc.

• The Crystal Mine is a 5x5 square building.
• Maximum of 6 Crystal Mines.

A Crystal Mine upgrade has a payback cost in the sense that you spend Gold and Crystal as well as time (while it is upgrading, it is not making Crystal). Furthermore, building a Crystal Mine has similar invested costs. We calculate the TrueCost of a Crystal Mine build/upgrade by taking its Gold cost(dividing by 5 for Gold to Crystal value ratio) + its Crystal cost + its downtime Crystal cost. Example: Upgrading a level 1 mine is GoldCost(12,000/5=2,400)+CrystalCost(600)+TimeCost(120) = TrueCost(1,320). Therefore the first upgrade has a Crystal cost to you of 1,320. Then assuming you can use a Crystal Mine non-stop at 1 hour sets(highly unlikely), your increased Crystal revenue produced is 10 per hour. So in order to be paid back the cost to you, it will take 132 hours of peak mining or 5.5 days of non stop hourly mining. The following chart breaks down the TrueCost and Hours needed for all level of upgrades:

Upgrade Level	Gold Cost in Crystal	Crystal Cost in Crystal	Time Cost in Crystal	Total Cost in Crystal	Crystal Increase Peak Hour	Peak Break Even Hours
1	2,400	0	0	2,400	60	40 Hours or 1.7 Days
2	600	600	120	1,320	10	132 Hours or 5.5 Days
3	1,000	1,000	240	2,240	10	224 Hours or 9.3 Days
4	1,600	1,600	480	3,680	10	368 Hours or 15.3 Days
5	2,400	2,400	720	5,520	10	552 Hours or 23 Days

These are peak hours for paying back the TrueCost. Anything less than 1 hour mining cycles causes the payback for a mine or upgrades to be even more severe. It should be noted that the mines will payback upgrades and costs concurrently. In otherwords, if you make 2 Upgrades at the same time, both upgrades are being paid back at the same time. So if a level 30 player built a Mine and upgraded it straight to level 5, it would be paid off completely in a total of 30 days of non-stop 1 hour mining. As a general average, based on typical power mining (1 hour reps for most of a day + 9 hour rep while player sleeps) the Building of a Mine takes 2 days before it is paid back, Upgrade to level 2 takes 1 week, Upgrade to level 3 takes 2 weeks, Upgrade to level 4 takes 4 weeks and Upgrade to level 5 takes 6 weeks. A casual player, who 1 hour reps while playing, does a 9 hour rep while working and a 9 hour rep while sleeping can expect an additional 1-2 weeks across the board respectively.