Basic Mining Tutorial

[madseend]

nice article good read

[WoenK]

Could someone explain me, how the amps work ?

According to Entropedia, they raise the efficiency, but I cant understand in which way.
Does this mean, if they raise the efficency by 2.5 a V find will become a XII or does it become a VII (multiplikation or addition )?

[Nesse]

Originally Posted by WoenK

Could someone explain me, how the amps work ?

According to Entropedia, they raise the efficiency, but I cant understand in which way.
Does this mean, if they raise the efficency by 2.5 a V find will become a XII or does it become a VII (multiplikation or addition )?

Cannot say I know, but my guess is that it is multiplicative. Not sure if the name of the amp is important, but it would make sense if an increase in cost gives a corresponding increase in gain. I.e. for a 101 amp that costs half the corresponding bomb/probe would increase the gain by 50% - i.e a 5ped find would instead be a 7.5ped find. If that is true, the efficiency numbers does not make sense, though. Not that all other numbers make perfect sense...
Would be nice to hear an experienced miners view on this. There have been some discussion in other threads, but...

[WoenK]

Originally Posted by Nesse

Cannot say I know, but my guess is that it is multiplicative. Not sure if the name of the amp is important, but it would make sense if an increase in cost gives a corresponding increase in gain. I.e. for a 101 amp that costs half the corresponding bomb/probe would increase the gain by 50% - i.e a 5ped find would instead be a 7.5ped find. If that is true, the efficiency numbers does not make sense, though. Not that all other numbers make perfect sense...
Would be nice to hear an experienced miners view on this. There have been some discussion in other threads, but...

Had 5 globals using an amp so far.
Using an 102 at the moment which has an 2.5 efficiency and it feels like it is 2.5 times the normal size. Maybe if i find a spot not that heavily mined at which I can be sure, almost no one goes there, I would be able to have it more conclusive, but with 700k users and such a small world it seems impossible

Any experienced miner any thoughts ?