Pidgeys are the backbone of my PokemonGo economy, an exercise in math done wrong
Short version
Pidgeys are plentiful and the transformation cost is low.
The average EP yield of a pidgey is 281.
How to mess it up
If you follow my twitter channel you noticed that I made various proclamations about the pidgey economy using a Numbers spreadsheet. Here’s the first one I made:
Nat! @mulle_nat 25. Aug.
Pigeons are the backbone of my #PokemonGo economy. Every pigeon I catch is > worth 233.33 EP min. w/o doubling.
Mistakes made
- I did not know that a transform only uses 11 candy, though requiring 12
- I did not calculate
(2500-900)/6
correctly …
How to mess it up more
Ok second try:
Nat! @mulle_nat 9 Std.
Revised: Pigeons are the backbone of my #PokemonGo economy. Every pigeon I catch is worth 275 EP min. w/o doubling.
Mistakes made
I used Numbers and made a copy/paste mistake from a cell, which didn’t have a formula. In the last transform line, the pigeon number actually increased from 3 to 4, which is wrong.
At this point it became clear, that I just couldn’t trust myself with a spreadsheet to come up with a good answer.
How to do it right
Write a simulation in C (Github Project). The proper result (281) I would not have achieved with my spreadsheet approach, since it takes quite a few iterations to stabilize.
//
// main.c
// MullePokemonGoPidgeyEconomy
//
// Created by Nat! on 30.08.16.
// Copyright © 2016 Mulle kybernetiK. All rights reserved.
//
#include <assert.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
enum
{
keep_one,
sell_first
};
#define STRATEGY keep_one
#define VERBOSE 0
struct pokemongo
{
int pidgey; // Taubsi
int pidgeotto; // Tauboga
int candy;
int ep_100;
int catches;
int steps;
};
static void pokemongo_step( struct pokemongo *p, char *op)
{
++p->steps;
#if VERBOSE
fprintf( stderr, "%d: %s %d %d %d\n",
p->steps,
op,
p->pidgey + p->pidgeotto,
p->candy,
p->ep_100 * 100);
#endif
}
static void pokemongo_catch( struct pokemongo *p)
{
p->catches += 1;
p->pidgey += 1;
p->candy += 3;
p->ep_100 += 1;
pokemongo_step( p, "catch");
}
static void pokemongo_sell( struct pokemongo *p)
{
assert( p->pidgey > 0 || p->pidgeotto > 0);
if( p->pidgeotto)
p->pidgeotto -= 1;
else
p->pidgey -= 1;
p->candy += 1;
pokemongo_step( p, "sell");
}
static void pokemongo_transform( struct pokemongo *p)
{
assert( p->pidgey >= 1);
assert( p->candy >= 12);
p->ep_100 += 5;
p->candy -= 12;
p->pidgey -= 1;
p->pidgeotto += 1;
p->candy += 1;
pokemongo_step( p, "transform");
}
static int pokemongo_can_sell( struct pokemongo *p)
{
if( p->pidgeotto > 0)
return( 1);
if( STRATEGY == sell_first)
return( p->pidgey > 0);
return( p->pidgey > 1);
}
static int pokemongo_can_transform( struct pokemongo *p)
{
return( p->pidgey > 0 && p->candy >= 12);
}
static double pokemongo_get_average_per_catch( struct pokemongo *p)
{
if( ! p->catches)
return( 0.0);
return( p->ep_100 * 100 / p->catches);
}
#if VERBOSE
static double pokemongo_get_average_per_step( struct pokemongo *p)
{
if( ! p->steps)
return( 0.0);
return( p->ep_100 * 100 / p->steps);
}
#endif
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
struct pokemongo game;
memset( &game, 0, sizeof( game));
for(;;)
{
if( game.ep_100 >= 1000000 / 100) // 1 mio EP
{
printf( "ep : %ld\n", (long) game.ep_100 * 100);
#if VERBOSE
printf( "rate : %.2f\n", get_average_per_step( &game));
#endif
printf( "avg per catch : %.2f\n", pokemongo_get_average_per_catch( &game));
break;
}
if( pokemongo_can_transform( &game))
{
pokemongo_transform( &game);
continue;
}
if( pokemongo_can_sell( &game))
{
pokemongo_sell( &game);
continue;
}
pokemongo_catch( &game);
}
}
Pidgey economy
-
when you catch a pidgey, you get
100 EP, 3 candy 1 pidgey
-
if you have 12 candy you can transform a pidgey into a pidgeotto to get
500 EP, 1 pidgeotto
. But you lose11 candy, 1 pidgey
-
you can sell a pidgey to receive
1 candy
and lose1 pidgey
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