Talk:Pirate Chest/@comment-24.12.104.87-20120616190343/@comment-4102115-20120619103238

This is reminiscint of the days of "I am positive the Burger breaks more often than blah blah" saga, with dozens of people working out probabilities, and before the actual code was found, we got quite close - working out nothing ever breaks less than 7 collections after a previous break, upgrade or construction, and always less than ~20 max collections, with a standard deviation curve weighting the breaks around the 14th collection and for profitability purposes averages out to 1 in 14. The code once found basically confirmed that.

Then there was the Idol Piastre Bonus - speculating you get a Piastre about 1% of the time, then people making hundreds of donation working out the average is less than 1% - until that code was found and it is not a %age random at all, but simply: The Idol will also give you 1€ in addition to the standard Reward on your 10th, 50th, 200th, 500th, 1000th, 2000th, 5000th and 10,000th donation

I can not find the code for Pirate Chest payouts - $ or € chance, but I am confident the € pay is a random %age weight like Resource collections - because every previous (and there have been many) attempts at finding a pattern have always come down to "it looks like you get more € following that pattern simply because you spent that time focussing on chest collections and therefore collected many more chests in that time, and each time you collect, you re-start the "next-appearance-in-5-hours" clock whereas is if it not collected, it takes 2 hours for it to sink before the clock restarts, therefore regular collection increases naturally the number of € collected. Nothing more, nothing less.

It would bre great if there was a way to increase the likelihood of getting €s, and as always, a huge thanks to everyone who puts time and effort into experimenting and working on this, but it really seems the only way is by doing consecutive collections simply because you're doing more collections and bringing the chest back quicker.

But I also do not know where or how the isBroken code or the cleaning bonuses were found, so I am not as adept at finding some code as others. Someone may break this yet.