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Hey there :)
I noticed there is a massive lack of information out there on hard Spiral Knights data. I intend to fix this immediately with a statistics based portion of my site!
Me and a friend started logging our raw CE gains per floor, including the floor name, depth, number of players, and Energy features purchased (Danger Rooms, etc). We pumped this all into a website where you can search for data on specific floors, depths etc, to allow others to play around with our data.
You can view the site here, but bear in mind it has no visual style yet: that's on the list. We want to expand as a full Spiral Knights fansite, but I wanted to share this information with the Spiral Knights community early, to gain thoughts and feedback.
Even with an unfinished analysis tool, on only 40 floors, we made some interesting discoveries. Some of these are already known, but are now backed up by data.
- You can make a profit using CE alone, especially if you jump into the second stratum of a tier. This one is obvious, but it's still worth mentioning. Even with rising CE prices I can't see this changing soon.
- For boss stratums, the "boss" isn't really the reward (tokens aside). The floors before the bosses however appear to have massive rewards. So even if you know you can't beat the Jelly King, it's probably worth your time to run that gate.
- It's possible that the number of players in a group matters less than we think. NOTE: I need to do a lot more research (and get a larger dataset) before I can confirm this.
That last one is interesting. I haven't yet written the portion of the site that lets you drill down by player count, but looking at the raw data the differences are negligible. It may be worth considering that there may be advantages to running solo (you may be quicker running solo, which means more profit with the elevator pass. You will keep all of the materials found. Enemies are more predictable etc. etc.) but again I stress: it is too early to say!
Currently I have about 45 floors logged, and I hope to increase this to at least 100 by the end of the week. I will post another update on this thread with our exact methodology for measuring "profit", because I want to make sure that you are satisfied with the accuracy of our data.
Please leave me your thoughts, since I'm sure there are many forms of analysis on this raw data that we haven't even considered. We want to turn this into a pretty site with all the graphs, conclusions and ideal strategies but we need to make sure you guys are interested in it :)
Nice work!
Amt of cr also depends on which half of the tier is the level in. Depths after clockwork terminal pay more in cr. So for some levels it should be mentioned.