Xariann wrote:Thanewright wrote:How to rush rank 4 by spending money to make money:
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Doing that, great tip.
It seems that the formula I was using is not accurate. Reverse engineering after this cycle, it seems to be:
Merits retained = Merits earned last week + 1/2 merits earned week before + (I presume) 1/4 merits earned week before that.
So if you earn say... 550 merits a week, at start of new cycle you have:
550 (earned last week)
+ 275 (half earned week before)
+ 137 (quarter earned week before that)
= 962
With the 550 you earn this week, that puts you on:
1512
So this is what is required to maintain rank 4. 550 a week, or 22 trade missions a week.
This makes it not very viable to just "buy" merits and rake in a profit, which I guess is fair enough :p
Plugging in my own numbers I had:
100 earned week 1
116 carried over to week 2 (there was a glitch week 1)
1530 earned week 2 for 1646 in total.
1588 (1530 + 116/2) carried over to week 3.
So right now I can do nothing and stay rank 4, but then I'll be at a loss next week. So planning on trying for 550 this week (but this time, without buying extra loads to ship).
One way to gain "extra" free stuff to ship:
Get your 30 minute allocation. Then go vacuum the flat/cook dinner/shampoo the dog/whatever, come back and get another 30 minute allocation, etc. You can keep doing this 'till you fill your cargo hold, then ship them all in one go.