Scoring

[Karsten75]

Virgil gave the scoring algorithm in another post. I thought it would be interesting to graph it. Clicking on the graph should show it larger

[Aurzel]

how did you make that graph because it's completely backwards and wrong, there's an aymptote along the x-axis, therefore the line will never touch the x-axis, what you've got will touch the x-axis in about another hour

[Joykill]

Take a look at the numbers under the graph... at firsst they raise slowly, but later on they raise with jumps in hours... hence the graph looks weird...

[Aurzel]

in that case the graph is even more wrong, what he's trying to do then is a histogram, he's using the wrong graph paper and no consistent graduating scale for the time, a graph of this sort would look like the graph y=1/x except that the top end of the graph connects with the y-axis

edit: here you go

[Karsten75]

in that case the graph is even more wrong, what he's trying to do then is a histogram, he's using the wrong graph paper and no consistent graduating scale for the time, a graph of this sort would look like the graph y=1/x except that the top end of the graph connects with the y-axis

edit: here you go

I used Excel. Unfortunately I did not save anything after I made the graph. Now I realize something is wrong and I'll look into what I did. Aurzel's graps is how it should look, since as Virgil said in his post,  "To get a score of 1 you have to let the game play for over a year. "

I did want to show almost a logarithmic increase in time, but unfortunately, Excel does not let me scale the X-axis logarithmically, unless I"m missing something.

[Kamron3]

Virgil said it would take over a year to get to 1.

_k

[Karsten75]

^^  as I quoted right above you.

[Aurzel]

and although technically its impossible to get a score of 0, i'm sure if left on long enough (several years probably?) the number would be so low that it would be rounded down to 0

[Siccles]

well im not sure if the system actually rounds up or down, or if it just ignored all the number behind the decimal point

[knucracker]

As an aside, you can use this site to plot functions:
http://www.walterzorn.com/grapher/grapher_e.htm

I use it whenever I've trying to craft a function to do something (like a series of ln's added together or something) and I need to see what it will look like.

[Karsten75]

As an aside, you can use this site to plot functions:
http://www.walterzorn.com/grapher/grapher_e.htm

I use it whenever I've trying to craft a function to do something (like a series of ln's added together or something) and I need to see what it will look like.

super cool site!

[Kamron3]

As an aside, you can use this site to plot functions:
http://www.walterzorn.com/grapher/grapher_e.htm

I use it whenever I've trying to craft a function to do something (like a series of ln's added together or something) and I need to see what it will look like.

super cool site!

It's super special awesome!

_k

[UpperKEES]

Too bad the 'Double Down' option doesn't improve your score (read: reduce your score more slowly).

Great game though, I enjoy it a lot!