Talk:Estate/@comment-4111213-20110717202557/@comment-4111213-20110718053143

When I tested the first collection thing, I was building, upgrading, and demolishing Hot Dog Stands in order to get the related rewards, I wasn't specifically trying to test for repairs. They cycle so quickly that they'd end up with green $ before I got around to doing the next improvements. It just became obvious after doing 300+ of them that I hadn't done a single repair. It may well be like Pestilence Rex suggested, the first couple collections have 0% chance of repair and after that the chance steadily increases until they need repair and then it gets reset, and it's just the average of these rates that ends up being just above 1 in 14. I don't think there's any way to figure out the exact formula unless one of the developers wants to cough up the data. It's going to be at least 7 hours before I'm back awake again, and it may be even longer before more of my Estates come up for collection, for those that are wondering. I'm going to laugh if someone else breaks one before me.