Friday 20 September 2013

Explorer Skills gone live

Explorer Skills are now up on the live server.
At a glance it doesn't look like anything changed from the Test Server, so my list here -> http://thradetso.blogspot.com.au/p/science-explorer.html should be about right.

Even if you have no plans of spending deep into the science trees, I do recommend a few books in the low level skills to decrease the search time  for Adventures and Treasure Hunts by a few percent. For those of you who log on once a day at around the same time this can drop the search time from 24 hours for the longer searches down to 20 - 22 hours. 

An example of how this is beneficial. Previously, with searches taking 24 hours, at a glance this allows you to do them once a day. But your time in real life may not work that way.
Say you tend to get home after work and and log on at around 6pm. Day 1, you send your guys out.
Day 2, maybe you don't get on until 7pm. You send them at 7.
Day 3, you get home at 6, but they aren't back yet. You get distracted by TV/Dinner whatever. You don't notice you hadn't sent them until 8.30pm, and send them then.
After a few days, you're getting later and later before you send them, until it's too late to send them on a day, and you go to bed just before they get back. They spend the next 20ish hours sitting in your Star menu doing absolutely nothing. Sadly inefficient.

The benefit of dropping a few hours can mean this never happens again. Same scenario.
Day 1, send guys out at 6pm.
Day 2, get home at 7pm, but your timer was 22hours, they got home at 4. Send them out straight away.
Day 3, get home at 6pm. Your guys got back at 5pm. Send them out straight away.
This method may feel a little inefficient since your guys are still sitting around for a while before you get home, but you're still sending them out every day, which is what you wanted all along.

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