Crowella
Well-Known Member
I agree that 28-30 is pretty much the minimum practical.
This was my math. First of all, Inno, next time drop one zero off of all the numbers for the sake of simplicity. If everything ends in a zero, just divide by 10 and simplify the math!
So you need 5400/10 or 540 points. Each 3-hour manufacture is worth 10/1 = 1 point. So you need to do 540 3-hour runs in 72 hours.
There are 72/3 = 24 possible time slots for 3-hour runs. So you have to complete 540 of them in 24 possible slots. 540/24 = 22.5 (rounded up to 23, since you can't have half a manufactory -- and no, human marble and elven marble and planks don't count as half, although they should!). In theory if you had a production already finished there would be 25 3-hour slots, but it's more likely that people missed the start than had overhang.
Of course if you use spells you could reduce this number a little bit, but given that you also probably will miss the timing of pickups and might want to sleep, I don't think it's probable that anyone could accomplish this challenge with less than 25 factories running pretty much the whole time. I thought about trying to do it with 27, but decided on 30 to be safe, and then ended up being able to pop in a couple extra.
This was my math. First of all, Inno, next time drop one zero off of all the numbers for the sake of simplicity. If everything ends in a zero, just divide by 10 and simplify the math!
So you need 5400/10 or 540 points. Each 3-hour manufacture is worth 10/1 = 1 point. So you need to do 540 3-hour runs in 72 hours.
There are 72/3 = 24 possible time slots for 3-hour runs. So you have to complete 540 of them in 24 possible slots. 540/24 = 22.5 (rounded up to 23, since you can't have half a manufactory -- and no, human marble and elven marble and planks don't count as half, although they should!). In theory if you had a production already finished there would be 25 3-hour slots, but it's more likely that people missed the start than had overhang.
Of course if you use spells you could reduce this number a little bit, but given that you also probably will miss the timing of pickups and might want to sleep, I don't think it's probable that anyone could accomplish this challenge with less than 25 factories running pretty much the whole time. I thought about trying to do it with 27, but decided on 30 to be safe, and then ended up being able to pop in a couple extra.