I'm going to base these numbers on L2 4 hour seeds, Lvl 1 farm, and 8 gold 1 kya planting, understand that the deficit grows substantially when you start factoring farm level differences and 1 hour seeds. Doing this because frankly I get the impression that a lot of people have trouble with math, and how much they actually lose with the belief that stealing balances out your losses. I will also only be looking at the gold aspect, but the process is universal to all crops.
Basic numbers -
8 x 15,000 = 120,000
- the 30% loss for stolen of 36,000
= 84,000 gross before the cost of seeds
- seed cost of 24,000
= 60,000 net per round of stolen gold plants.
If you have the ability to get to them every 4 hours you can plant up to 6 times a day which totals
gross - 720,000
stolen - 216,000
seed cost - 144,000
net gain - 360,000
Now from my testing I concluded you could only steal 200 times a day. We will figure on best case scenario here that you snag the first shot on everyone's plants.
You'll steal
200,000
This relies on you getting the first shot out of every single planting you go after, and they all need to be the same exact 4 hour L2 gold plant. If you start hitting L1s, or 1 hour plants you won't even come close to balancing out. If you get 2 or 3rd shot on a crop you're stealing is getting killed in terms of recouping your loss to theft.
The numbers say you won't break even or make a gain unless you don't have full crops to farm, at which point the process ends up losing you money.
Daily gain with crop theft = 360,000
Daily gain with crop theft + perfect, full run of stealing - 560,000
Daily gain without = 576,000
Basic numbers -
8 x 15,000 = 120,000
- the 30% loss for stolen of 36,000
= 84,000 gross before the cost of seeds
- seed cost of 24,000
= 60,000 net per round of stolen gold plants.
If you have the ability to get to them every 4 hours you can plant up to 6 times a day which totals
gross - 720,000
stolen - 216,000
seed cost - 144,000
net gain - 360,000
Now from my testing I concluded you could only steal 200 times a day. We will figure on best case scenario here that you snag the first shot on everyone's plants.
You'll steal
200,000
This relies on you getting the first shot out of every single planting you go after, and they all need to be the same exact 4 hour L2 gold plant. If you start hitting L1s, or 1 hour plants you won't even come close to balancing out. If you get 2 or 3rd shot on a crop you're stealing is getting killed in terms of recouping your loss to theft.
The numbers say you won't break even or make a gain unless you don't have full crops to farm, at which point the process ends up losing you money.
Daily gain with crop theft = 360,000
Daily gain with crop theft + perfect, full run of stealing - 560,000
Daily gain without = 576,000
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