Originally Posted by
PrairieGrass
This info is only relevant for those who bought the egg dipper:
I crunched the numbers too, but got a different number 512. Great try! You have the right idea but subtracted 1 from the wrong thing. You took the number 2 and doubled it 10 times and then subtracted 1 from your total of 1024, but instead you should have subtracted 1 from how many times you need to double the number 2, so just double the number 2 nine times (i.e. 10-1).
Hopefully you wouldn't have to go all the way back to the first egg to make the tenth egg because then you would need 512 eggs of the first egg.
Here's a way to look at it:
1 space (day) apart..................need 2 eggs
2 spaces (days) apart...............need 4 eggs
3 spaces.........................................8 eggs
4 spaces........................................16 eggs
5 spaces........................................32 eggs
6 spaces........................................64 eggs
7 spaces.......................................128 eggs
8 spaces.......................................256 eggs
9 spaces.......................................512 eggs
Now for an example. Let's say that the new egg released on day #6 is easy to find and you have a lot of them, but the new egg released on day #9 is hard to find and you want to make more from earlier eggs. Day 6 and day 9 are 3 spaces (or days) apart (since 9 minus 6 = 3) so from my table you need 8 total of day #6 eggs to make 1 of day #9 eggs, working one step at a time from day 6 egg to day 7 egg, day 7 to day 8 egg, day 8 to day 9 egg.
Another example: You have 100s of day #2 eggs but hardly any of day # 7 eggs. They are 5 spaces (or steps or days) apart (since 7 minus 2= 5), so from the tables it would take 32 of day #2 eggs to make 1 day #7 egg.
Hope this makes sense!
Now with a 1 to 1 ratio like you had last year, you only needed 1 egg from day #1 to make 1 egg from day #10, a difference of 511 total eggs, a humongous difference but you still had to go through 9 steps.
For those who bought the egg dipper, my advice would be to watch for eggs that you have large quantities of and create higher day # eggs as soon as you can.
Wow! I'm editing again because I just realized that it's not just the number eggs that drastically increases to 512 with the new 2 --> 1 rules, but the total steps (of making 2 eggs turn into 1) that increases as well. It's not just 9 steps to go from a day #1 egg to a day # 10 egg, it's at least 53 steps, but I'm too tired now to double check my theory & math. Maybe later...gee did anyone from Storm 8 do the math? Hopefully if there are hard to get eggs, they won't be on consecutive days or this is really unmanageable!
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