Bug 69

Summary:	Smelting yields are bugged?
Product:	Salem	Reporter:	verballyokay
Component:	Game	Assignee:	loftar <fredrik>
Status:	IN_PROGRESS ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	---
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows

Description verballyokay 2012-10-06 09:26:31 CEST

From what I've been told the theoretical average yield should follow following formula:

average yield = (#"iron ores") * ( 0.01 * #"limes" + 0.01) and supposidly that formula was given from a developer himself at one point. 

According to that formula, using 8 limes & 17 ores should on average yield 1.53 iron bars per batch. However, a source has tested doing over 100 batches on a newly built smelter(noone else used that smelter) and reached the conclusion that the average yield was roughly 1.83, which is a lot higher than the theoretical 1.53. 

If the given formula is supposed to still be accurate, then the results from that source indicate that there is a bug which increases his average yield significantely for 8 limes & 17 ores.

Comment 1 loftar 2012-11-28 23:57:16 CET

That formula is wrong, though; it should be (0.01 * #limes + 0.02), so 0.1 in your case, which should give an average yield of 1.7 bars per smelter. 1.83 is obviously still higher, though. I'm not sure if it's within a margin where it can be ascribed to accounting error or not.