Prologue
I've been calculating land for quite a while now. Each of the posts linked below are a little tutorial by themselves, and doing all that helped me understand Land at a higher level. Today, I made a deal with a friend. I bough 3 plots for $45, one rare and two commons. Especially the rare was interesting, as it's a Canyon, which will let me harvest stone. Currently, an SPS mine sits there.
I now have the unique chance to turn all my fantasies and calculations into motion. And I'll run you through what I'm going to do in the next 2-4 weeks, and what is needed, and how much the likely earnings will be on that (depending on development of price).
Setting up.
This is a long-term set-up. Goal is 3 years. Since I already calculated everything I need, the set up is easy for me now. Except Runi. I should calculate Runi. Next time.
Calculations are based on a more or less consistent stone price.
I got lucky and paid 15$ for my plot.
The goal is to get to 25k Production Points, as my base case. It's really good that my plot is a Canyon, since that gives me a 10% bonus on Fire, Death and Dragon units. Most terrain types only have 2 boosts, and having more flexibility is good as I have more selection on which cards to use, and hence better prices. We'll talk prices below.
I want to make the maximum out of this plot, so I will also buy a Rare Totem. It's return will overcome the return of the cheaper common totem after around 850 days, so within my 3 year timeline.
Same goes for a rare title, which is a little closer with 935 days - if the stone price stays the same.
What cards?
I dusted out my old Card/Production Coefficient (CPC) Calculator, and fed it with the current prices. I only used Untamed, Beta and Alpha. Chaos Legion has very high CPC, and the Cost/1000 PP is also not appealing.
Looking at only the prices and PP, Rare Beta cards win the race. They provide the most PP for the $, and a maxed card brings 5,500 PP.
All these prices already include the DEC needed to stake them.
Including the production per Energy-Cost, so the overall efficiency, Beta Rares are still quite good. Yes, Beta Rare GF would be a lot better, but also a lot more costly, as we can see above. The only card type that is more efficient than those is the Alpha Rare GF, with a CPC of 4,63 against the Beta Rare GF with 4,92.
To max a GF Beta Rare, I would pay around $200. That gives me 20,000 PP, short of my goal. But it's only 1 slot occupied, only 10k DEC in Energy. I could add 1 maxed regular foil, be at 25,500 PP, and have paid a total of 233$ - with possibility to further expand.
For 5 regular Beta Rare, I pay $165, and get 27,500 PP. Since I run this for the long term, I'll see if I can go for option one - hopefully, someone will sell me a card like that.
Let's say I pay $233 to get my wished PP, with staked DEC.
Overall Cost
Setup as planned
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Plot | $15 |
| Energy Core | $5 |
| Cards and Energy | $233 |
| Rare Totem | $70 |
| Rare Title | $60 |
| Total | $383 |
That's a good amount of change. Let's see what I can expect from that.
High Cost Efficiency (Short Term) model
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Plot | $15 |
| Energy Core | $5 |
| Cards and Energy | $165 |
| Common Totem | $15 |
| Total | $200 |
Revenue Estimation
Long Term Model
| What | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Grain Cost | 25,500 x 0,01 | 255 Grain/hour |
| Total Production | 25,500 + 45% (Rarity, Totem, Title) | 36,975 PP |
| Stone Production | 36,975 PP x 0.002 | 73.95/hour |
| minus 10% tax | 73,95 - 10% | 66.555/hour |
| Stone for Grain | 255 / 9,75 | 26.155 Stone/hour |
| Total Stone Production | 66.555-26.155 | 40.4 Stone/hour |
| Total DEC Production | 40.4 Stone/h * 0.086 DEC/Stone | 3.47 DEC/h |
| Daily | 3.47 x 24 | 83.28 DEC/d |
| Monthly | 83.28 x 30 | 2500 DEC/m |
| Yearly | 83.28 x 365 | 30,397 DEC/y |
| annual ROI at DEC peg | 30,397 / 383,000 x 100 | 7.93% |
Short Term Model
| What | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Grain Cost | 27,500 x 0,01 | 275 Grain/hour |
| Total Production | 27,500 + 20% (Rarity, Totem) | 33,000 PP |
| Stone Production | 33,000 PP x 0.002 | 66 Stone/hour |
| minus 10% tax | 66 - 10% | 59,4/hour |
| Stone for Grain | 275 / 9,75 | 28.2 Stone/hour |
| Total Stone Production | 59.4 - 28.2 | 31.2 Stone/hour |
| Total DEC Production | 31.2 Stone/h * 0.086 DEC/Stone | 2.68 DEC/h |
| Daily | 2.68 x 24 | 64.4 DEC/d |
| Monthly | 64.4 x 30 | 1930 DEC/m |
| Yearly | 64.4 x 365 | 23,500 DEC/y |
| annual ROI at DEC peg | 23,500 / 200,000 x 100 | 11.75% |
Long Term Highest Investment
That looks like a good beat for the short term - but wait a minute. I still have 3 slots available for my Long Term Case. What if I filled those with RF Rare Beta? Total cost would go up to
| What | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Grain Cost | 42,000 x 0,01 | 420 Grain/hour |
| Total Production | 42,000 + 45% (Rarity, Totem, Title) | 60,900 PP |
| Stone Production | 63,525 PP x 0.002 | 121.08 Stone/hour |
| minus 10% tax | 121.08 - 10% | 109.62 Stone/hour |
| Stone for Grain | 420 / 9,75 | 43.08 Stone/hour |
| Total Stone Production | 109.62 - 43.08 | 66.54 Stone/hour |
| Total DEC Production | 66.54 Stone/h * 0.086 DEC/Stone | 5.72 DEC/h |
| Daily | 5.72 x 24 | 137.34 DEC/d |
| Monthly | 137.34 x 30 | 4,120 DEC/m |
| Yearly | 137.34 x 365 | 50,130 DEC/y |
| annual ROI at DEC peg | 50,130 / 472,000 x 100 | 10.62% |
Short Term High Bonus
Yes, we can do that, too. We're here to find the best way to invest over 3 years. The biggest cost is the cards, so if we use the Short Term Cards, but the Long Term Bonus, we spend $315 / 315,000 DEC
| What | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Grain Cost | 27,500 x 0,01 | 275 Grain/hour |
| Total Production | 27,500 + 45% (Rarity, Totem, Title) | 39,875 PP |
| Stone Production | 39,875 PP x 0.002 | 79.75 Stone/hour |
| minus 10% tax | 79.75 - 10% | 71.775/hour |
| Stone for Grain | 275 / 9.75 | 28.2 Stone/hour |
| Total Stone Production | 71.775 - 28.2 | 43.57 Stone/hour |
| Total DEC Production | 43.57 Stone/h * 0.086 DEC/Stone | 3.75 DEC/h |
| Daily | 4 x 24 | 90 DEC/d |
| Monthly | 96 x 30 | 2700 DEC/m |
| Yearly | 96 x 365 | 32,830 DEC/y |
| annual ROI at DEC peg | 32,830 / 315,000 x 100 | 10.42% |
Okay, 4 of those tables are more than enough. Too much. But the possibilities are endless, and I calculated an "All in" as well, spending $1000 on 5 max Gold Foil Rare Betas. I won't. But the ROI is only 10,47%. The extra spending does not reflect well in that. Let me see if I can make a graph...
Scenarios
Yeah, I might be getting a little too far here. But I hope it's still of value. I built a little calculator to run those scenarios and then used them to build a graph correlating Investment and ROI.
I ran quite a few scenarios as you can see, and there's no clear pattern. I would have to create an "Count If" to make correlations really clear, but the best ROI is still Beta Rare Regular Foils on a rare plot with common totem - 11,75%.
Conclusion
I'm going to got for the highest ROI for now. I got some other plots in the deal, and whenever I feel like it, i can upgrade. But for now, it makes the most sense to do it like this. If anyone wants to sell 1-5 max rare Beta regular foil (Fire, Death or Dragon) - let me know!
Former posts:
Calculating Land part 1 - How to get your ROI
Calculating Land part 2 - Are pools worth it?
Calculating Land part 3 - Organic Growth
Land Plot Efficiency for non-whales
Card-Production-Coefficient - Combining LPE and ROI
Renting for Land - at what cost?
Risks to my strategy
What do refined resources cost?
Real cost of Wagons
How to perfectly adjust your wagons
Calculating Totem and Title boosts
Calculating Plot Rarity Boost
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