[BETA] Royal KE | PK MODE is on!

**Rainmaker** · 07-12-2014, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by twostars

Right, but see you came to those numbers using a different algo. You worked out that algo based solely on one amount, so those numbers match up (the final amounts do, anyway)... but as soon as you feed it anything different, it's wrong.
Really, I was just curious because you gave a specific algo there which looked very wrong to me (and double-checking the official algo, yeah -- it is wrong).

What are you using these calcs for? If it's nothing server-y (or you're only ever using it for that one amount) then there's no real problem, but it's definitely not accurate.
Have a look at the actual values it produces:

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Using base NP amount: 50
1 - 50 (official) vs 50 (yours)
2 - 28.5 (official) vs 28 (yours)
3 - 21.333333 (official) vs 20.666667 (yours)
4 - 17.75 (official) vs 17 (yours)
5 - 15.6 (official) vs 14.8 (yours)
6 - 14.166667 (official) vs 13.333333 (yours)
7 - 13.142857 (official) vs 12.285714 (yours)
8 - 12.375 (official) vs 11.5 (yours)

So, the different algo you're talking about is just :

(50 + [7 * (party_member_count - 1)]) / party_member_count

You could just say it's not 6, it's 7

I always thought it rounds the number up for some reason because 6 did the job and I didn't think to add 7.

**twostars** · 07-12-2014, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

So, the different algo you're talking about is just :

(50 + [7 * (party_member_count - 1)]) / party_member_count

You could just say it's not 6, it's 7

I always thought it rounds the number up for some reason because 6 did the job and I didn't think to add 7.

Surprisingly, this works out precisely for 50:

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Using base NP amount: 50
1 - 50 (50) (official) vs 50 (50) (yours)
2 - 28 (28.5) (official) vs 28 (28.5) (yours)
3 - 21 (21.333333) (official) vs 21 (21.333333) (yours)
4 - 17 (17.75) (official) vs 17 (17.75) (yours)
5 - 15 (15.6) (official) vs 15 (15.6) (yours)
6 - 14 (14.166667) (official) vs 14 (14.166667) (yours)
7 - 13 (13.142857) (official) vs 13 (13.142857) (yours)
8 - 12 (12.375) (official) vs 12 (12.375) (yours)

However, it still breaks on everything else:

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Using base NP amount: 25
1 - 25 (25) (official) vs 25 (25) (yours)
2 - 14 (14.25) (official) vs 16 (16) (yours)
3 - 10 (10.666667) (official) vs 13 (13) (yours)
4 - 8 (8.875) (official) vs 11 (11.5) (yours)
5 - 7 (7.8) (official) vs 10 (10.6) (yours)
6 - 7 (7.083333) (official) vs 10 (10) (yours)
7 - 6 (6.571429) (official) vs 9 (9.571429) (yours)
8 - 6 (6.1875) (official) vs 9 (9.25) (yours)

Using base NP amount: 64
1 - 64 (64) (official) vs 64 (64) (yours)
2 - 36 (36.48) (official) vs 35 (35.5) (yours)
3 - 27 (27.306667) (official) vs 26 (26) (yours)
4 - 22 (22.72) (official) vs 21 (21.25) (yours)
5 - 19 (19.968) (official) vs 18 (18.4) (yours)
6 - 18 (18.133333) (official) vs 16 (16.5) (yours)
7 - 16 (16.822857) (official) vs 15 (15.142857) (yours)
8 - 15 (15.84) (official) vs 14 (14.125) (yours)

You're (sort of) on the right track, but there's a little more to it than that.