Thinking about starting a test on economy

Ardorj · May 29, 2013

I just made a post on Calypsoforum about a test I am thinking about doing. See here

Ardorj said:

Greetings all,

I am thinking about doing a rather large test. I am an old timer that is skilling very slowly. Right now I am only at level 38 Swordsman and that is my main proffession. I started before the Axe 1x0 nerf, Opalo and (L) items. I have a decent collection of oldstyle mêleé weapons, for example every Castorian Combat EnBlade expect the new 'Defender'. I am actually using these weapons too despite all the warning bells in my head about being uneco.
Those warning bells has gotten me to the point that I recently bought a MAKO Blizzard (L), believe it's #1.

I have seen a chart here about a test with Opalo + A101 versus Opalo + Eamp15 (or whatever it's called). Conclusion is being far less eco gives you higher loot, but not enough to offset the difference. Now I want to do a test like this with part of my mêleé collection and newstyle TT-mêleé.
The goal of my test will be:

What is the difference in outcome in percentage for different mêleé weapons on the same creature at the same location?

What is the correlation between the economy of a mêleé weapon and the resulting loot percentage?

Some problems I am thinking of before starting are:

Which weapons to choose? Should I go for the same weapon types (ie. all shortblades), same damage-range or same dmg/sec-range? Or perhaps a mix of these is better? And what about weapons with near same economy with one being oldstyle and the other the new SIB-style?

What creature to hunt? I will only hunt one type at one specific location for this test. Small enough in damage that I can heal myself inbetween with a TT-fap. I am on Arkadia and will not go to another planet. Other thing is that I prefer a missionmob.

How to calculate my effective eco with unmaxed weapons?

How many different weapons to use in this test?

How to record all the data? Thinking about determining the TT-return after every hunt, take track of what I hunt as well like Dtler does in his log. Note the defensive skills. Perhaps a standard deviation per weapon and overal too.

I want to hunt a missionmob, I don't expect that will alter the results in a significant way.

I want to upgrade my unlimited weapons when I can, also don't expect that will alter the results (won't be using enhancers).

And because I sometimes don't play for weeks on end my progress is very slow. This test will probably be spread out over many months and perhaps even years if I don't lose my sanity first.

[EDIT]
I just realise that I am at 6.2/6.3 hit/crithit on all swords that I checked. That doesn't stroke with my believe that these are all maxed at level 100. How is this determined and when are these swords maxed?
[EDIT]

Ardorj
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Anyone here got any suggestions as well?
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