Talk:Profitability/@comment-217.162.151.111-20110716145518/@comment-3991817-20110716154011

Well, I have downloaded your .js file and looked through it. Shame you put almost no documentation and explanation in it. But as far as I can see there are no errors in it.

BUT.... You used an average repair probability of 6.6% (1/15.1), where we use one of 7.1% (1/14). This will of course return different values. Also you assume a daily collection cycle that stays the same for an entire year, which is quite unrealistic like I said before. You think everybody collects at 9:00, 10:00, 11:30, 13:00, 15:00, 18:00, 18:02, 18:05, 18:15, 18:20, 22:00 and 0:00 and than goes to sleep. This assumption will impact the reliability of you numbers. What is more, you only checked the profitability for the structures up to Level 10, which all have relatively low accumulation times (maximum of 6 hours). This comes in handy for the collection times you just defined, but naturally has an impact on the final numbers. And last but not least, you assume people will collect money even when accumulation is not fully completed (what we call yellow buck). Seeing as this happens sometimes in your schedule but differently to all structures, repeating this daily for an entire year will greatly influence the final numbers after a year. In our chart we opted for 100% accumulation times so it is the same for every structure and will result in a number that can truly be compared per structure.

So, long story short: you complain about our table and charts, but actually, your simulator is even worse.