Talk:Boost Calculation Guide/@comment-24850945-20140423095526

I've suspected there was something off about the boosts and I have confirmed it with a stopwatch and several trial runs. There is a huge discrepancy between what the dragon says it earns and what it actually earns. This discrepancy does not exist for unboosted dragons, only for dragons that are boosted, and the discrepancy gets bigger as the number of boosts increase. I will publish one of my results here, after that, you are free to check your own dragons: Carnival dragon, level 15. With no boosts, it says it earns 66gpm, and it actually earns 66gpm. With one boost, it says it earns 80gpm, but it actually earns slightly higher than this, around 84gpm. I skipped two boosts and went to three. With three boosts, it says it earns 115gpm, but the actual earnings were close to 169gpm! This means it pays off huge to stack boosts on an island and ensure to remove dragons that will be negatively boosted to a neutral island. I have not done trial runs for dragons with both pos and neg boosts, but I suspect that just one neg boost will be much worse than what the published rate says. I have also noticed that my cactus and ash dragons have published earning rates slightly lower than my plant dragons...I am talking about my personal dragons here...the cactus and ash dragons have two boosts and still have a published rate lower than my plant dragons that have one boost, but my cactus and ash dragons earn more than my plant dragons all the time. The same thing happens in my other habitats, with different dragons that give me an easy comparison. My guess is The BFS programmers used one formula for the published rate and one formula for the actual earnings rate and never ensured they actually matched - or they needed to make an adjustment to the formula and the programmer forgot there were two formulas to correct.