Speed and time reduction

Here, the tips is that help hand is more important than speed.

Speed is one of the most important parameter of this game. But how the speed works may need to specify. Constuction, research, training, gathering, and pact merging speed, sharing the same mechenism of time reduction.

The time needed could be calculated according to the follow equation.

T=1/(100%+speed).

than means if your construction speed is 200%, you will need 1/3 of original construction time.

10% speed increase does not means 10% time reduction. the follow figure of training speed show a example. T=1/(100%+466%)=17.67%, time reduction is around 82%.

for the other speed, no such information available, but they work the same way.

In this case, for construction and research speed, help hand is more important than speed because 1 help hand will decrease 1% of current time needed, but 1% speed increase does not reduce many time.

See the calculation:

30 help hand derease the current time:

1-0.99^30 (the fourth power of 0.99) = 1- 0.739694444= 26%

this is a constant value.

the figure below show some data about time reduction.

As speed bonus goes up, 100% speed bonus increasement may not give many time reduction, 30 help hands worked similar as 100% speed bonus when speed was 300% and will become more important afterward.