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04/04/2021 - 17:13

Blueprints often get overlooked by players, mainly because they're confusing.  Hopefully this guide should help:

Unit Modification Blueprints

03/26/2021 - 18:11

Beta is giving us a sneak peek at some new Easter content that will make its way to the main game soon.  You will need to upgrade your game version to 3.81.0 to see the new content (as of today it's still only on Beta).

First of all, we get two new Officers:

 

Both are Assignment officers.  Bonnie (S) is assigned to the Defense Department for a boost in HQ Defense, with double effect on other battlefields.  Lapine (S) is assigned to the Military Department to give a large boost to your effectiveness in joining a Joint Defense.  Neither are AMS officers.

There are four new troop types that will be introduced, and these align with the Nostalgic/Arcade content:

   

There are two new Personalized Appearances:

 

The bonuses of the Nostalgic Arcade Machine focus around boosting the attributes of the Arcade Troops listed above, while the buffs for the Easter Tank appearance increase your attack attributes on other battlefields.

Finally, there is also one new Avatar Frame, one new Chat Box, and one new Nameplate:

 

If you have any ideas or thoughts on how to use this new content, feel free to leave them in the comments.

03/22/2021 - 13:17

The following questions are asked in the Anniversary Celebration - Anniversary Glory Quiz, with the correct answers listed in bold.

Which statement is NOT true?

  1. In the Ace Commander event, the daily preparation time is 10 minutes
  2. In the War Game event, players can be robbed of Silver even during the preparation time
  3. Each round lasts 4 hours in the Inferno event
  4. In the Battlefield event, the daily preparation time is 15 minutes.

 

Which statement is NOT true?

  1. The level cap for planes is 50
  2. Robots take effect immediately after they're assembled.
  3. Battle buffs take effect immediately after capturing officers
  4. The level cap for officers is 120

 

Which statement is true?

  1. Units in AMS will starve to death without Plastic.
  2. Resources in a Moneybox can be stolen by other players
  3. Only players who complete the 3rd point objective can make it into the ranking in the Inferno Event
  4. Only resources are needed to convert buildings

 

Why isn't my 5-Min Quick Movement effective in an attack?

  1. The opponent has a Flame Feather.
  2. The opponent has activated a Terminator.
  3. The opponent learned a Special Class Skill.
  4. None of the above

 

What's the resource storage limit?

  1. 10M
  2. 50M
  3. 100M
  4. 2.1B

 

Which Anniversary is AMS celebrating this year?

  1. 1st
  2. 2nd
  3. 3rd
  4. 4th

 

Which of the following can increase your marching queue limit?

  1. VIP
  2. Robot
  3. Plane
  4. HQ Appearance

 

Why do some officers can upgrade their skills with Merit Medals, and some cannot?

  1. The officers that can't use Merit Medals are no longer available.
  2. Some officers do not need to upgrade their skills.
  3. Some officers require Training Dummies to upgrade their skills.
  4. AMS customized officers require officers (complete or fragment) with the same name to upgrade their skills.

 

What's the best thing to do with your extra Plane Parts?

  1. Use them to upgrade Plane Cores or Convert Planes.
  2. You can fuse them into AMS Points.
  3. Completely useless; you can only sell them at low prices.
  4. You can fuse them into other planes.

 

What's the upper limit of a rallied/reinforcement army (excluding yourself)?

  1. Five
  2. Seven
  3. Nine
  4. Ten

 

How can you light up spotlights on the battlefield map?

  1. Activate a Boxing Duck
  2. Enhance all units to max level
  3. At least one unit in unit modification has a complete set of gold-quality Modification Blueprints.
  4. None of the above.

 

Why did my Power turn red?

  1. I was scouted
  2. I was attacked
  3. I was assisted
  4. My Power changed

 

How do I know how many Spades and Advanced Blueprints I need for a rebuild?

  1. Loop at Spade's Item Description
  2. Search for Spade and Advanced Blueprint in the FAQ
  3. Look at Advanced Blueprint's Item Description
  4. None of the above

 

I took on the War Machine by myself and killed it with 4 attacks.  Why did I only receive 4 lucky prizes?

  1. The War Machine was in a bad mood.
  2. There are only 4 lucky prizes
  3. Only 1 lucky prize can be given for each attack
  4. McDevils stole a lucky prize

 

If you damage the War Machine by 70% of its Max HP with one hit, how many lucky prizes will you get?

  1. Three
  2. Two
  3. One
  4. None of the above

 

Which of the following can increase your Resource Assistance amount in a single attempt?

  1. Increase the command effect of auditors
  2. Upgrade VIP level
  3. Level up the Nexus
  4. Level up the corresponding resource buildings

 

Which of the following will trigger protection for your Corps Command?

  1. Recycle it, then place it again
  2. Place it again after it's destroyed
  3. Upgrade the Corps Command
  4. Place the Corps Command for the first time

 

What's the requirement for activating the gem resonance effect?

  1. 1 gem inlaid into a piece of gear reaches the required level
  2. 2 gems inlaid into a piece of gear reaches the required level
  3. 3 gems inlaid into a piece of gear reaches the required level
  4. 4 gems inlaid into a piece of gear reaches the required level

 

Which statement is NOT true?

  1. The level cap for planes is 50
  2. Robots take effect immediately after they're assembled.
  3. Battle buffs take effect immediately after capturing officers
  4. None of the above

 

Which situation will trigger Camouflage to disguise your HQ?

  1. There are enemy activities within range
  2. Activating Camouflage after units within range are targeted by enemies.
  3. Teleporting to the Camouflage area after activating it
  4. Camouflage getting destroyed

 

Regarding gem upgrade, which statement is true?

  1. 3 gems of the same level can be fused into a gem of a higher level.
  2. 3 identical gems of the same type can be fused into a gem of a higher level.
  3. 3 identical gems of the same shape can be fused into a gem of a higher level.
  4. 3 identical gems of the same type and level can be fused into a gem of a higher level.

 

Which of the following can NOT increase your marching queue limit?

  1. Command Officers
  2. Officer Assignment
  3. Technology > Legion
  4. VIP
03/11/2021 - 06:19

There is a new officer in Beta as of version 3.79.0: Rock Howard (S)

Rock Howard is an Assignment type officer, to be assigned to the Logistics Department.  His battlefield skills focus on gathering boosts, giving extra resources on the first 3 gathering marches of each day.

No info yet on how to get him, or when he will be available in the production game (although I assume in a couple of days).

01/26/2021 - 04:01

I'm writing a huge section on Planes at the moment (soon to be published), and a statement I saw on Facebook got me thinking.  The post was discussion of max resource production, and the statement was as follows:

"vampire is better than f117, just more expensive"

This was in reference to Development Zone garrison slot, where I've been using F117 with Christmas Frost gears for a long time, and I'm reasonably happy with my development numbers.  As many of us did, I started out with Vampire garrisoned in development zone until I got an F117 and was amazed by how fast I was able to max it out.

I'll delve into which plane is better to garrison in Development Zone in my Planes write-up, but the question that got me thinking is: how expensive is it to max out a Vampire?  The only way to know this is to predict the cost in Air Force Tactical Points for Attribute steps beyond what I've already unlocked (and thus know the costs for).  Therefore, I want to write a formula that will allow me to calculate the cost in AFTP for a given Attribute step.

Here are the steps and their associated costs that I know so far (from my own planes):

Level Cost
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 10
7 30
8 60
9 90
10 120
11 160
12 200
13 250
14 310
15 390
16 485
17 610
18 760
19 950
20 1185
21 1480
22 1760
23 2070
24 2435
25 2865
26 3370
27 3965
28 4665
29 5490
30 6455
31 7595
32 8490
33 9435
34 10,485
35 11,650
36 12,945
37 14,380
38 15,980
39 17,755
40 19,725
41 21,920
42 24,355
43 27,060
44 30,065
45 33,405
46 37,115
47 41,240
48 45,825
49 50,915
50 56,570
51 62,855
52 69,840
53 77,600
54 86,220
55 95,800
56 106,445
57 118,275
58 131,415
59 146,015
60 162,240
61 180,265
62 200,295
63 222,550
64 247,280
65 274,755
66 305,280
67 339,200
68 376,890
69 418,765
70 465,295
71 516,995
72 574,440
73 638,225
74 709,185
75 787,985
76 875,535
77 972,820
78 1,080,910
79 1,201,010
80 1,334,455
81 1,482,725
82 1,647,475
83 1,830,525
84 2,033,915
85 2,259,910
86 2,511,010
87 2,790,010
88 3,100,010
89 3,444,455
90 3,827,170
91 4,252,415
92 4,724,905
93 5,249,890
94 5,833,210
95 6,481,346
96 7,201,496
97 8,001,660
98 8,890,735
99 9,878596

I first tried to use an online pattern finder, but I was quickly foiled.  No section of the series of numbers was matched by any of the online pattern finders I checked.  (I also tried The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®), but came up blank there too). More math was needed.

I started out by trying to classify the type of equation I was dealing with.  It's obviously not linear, so I looked to polynomials.  An online search led me to a paper at the Carnegie Mellon University Mathematical Sciences department titled "Finding a formula for a sequence of numbers".  This paper described a process for determining if a given sequence of numbers could be solved by a high-degree polynomial equation, but following the process led me to determine that my desired formula was not a polynomial sequence.  The suggestion of that paper was to investigate an exponential sequence.

I had already checked to see if this was a logarithmic sequence, and had determined that it was not.  Another Google search took me to a lesson on CK12.org titled "Geometric Sequences and Exponential Functions."  Now I was getting somewhere.

The process on that lesson suggested that I investigate the Common Ratio, or the ratio between successive terms in the sequence.

This is what I found:

Level Cost Common Ratio (Tn/T(n-1))
1 1  
2 2 2.00000000
3 3 1.50000000
4 4 1.33333333
5 5 1.25000000
6 10 2.00000000
7 30 3.00000000
8 60 2.00000000
9 90 1.50000000
10 120 1.33333333
11 160 1.33333333
12 200 1.25000000
13 250 1.25000000
14 310 1.24000000
15 390 1.25806452
16 485 1.24358974
17 610 1.25773196
18 760 1.24590164
19 950 1.25000000
20 1185 1.24736842
21 1480 1.24894515
22 1760 1.18918919
23 2070 1.17613636
24 2435 1.17632850
25 2865 1.17659138
26 3370 1.17626527
27 3965 1.17655786
28 4665 1.17654477
29 5490 1.17684887
30 6455 1.17577413
31 7595 1.17660728
32 8490 1.11784068
33 9435 1.11130742
34 10,485 1.11128776
35 11,650 1.11111111
36 12,945 1.11115880
37 14,380 1.11085361
38 15,980 1.11126565
39 17,755 1.11107635
40 19,725 1.11095466
41 21,920 1.11128010
42 24,355 1.11108577
43 27,060 1.11106549
44 30,065 1.11104952
45 33,405 1.11109263
46 37,115 1.11106122
47 41,240 1.11114105
48 45,825 1.11117847
49 50,915 1.11107474
50 56,570 1.11106747
51 62,855 1.11110129
52 69,840 1.11112879
53 77,600 1.11111111

(That 1/0.9 pattern continues throughout the data that I've collected, I've just cut it off to shorten this already very long entry.)

I can see five distinct sections that have patterns:

  1. 1-4: linear
  2. 5-9: possibly exponential with a rounding error
  3. 10-21: exponential with a common ratio of 5/4
  4. 22-31: exponential with a common ratio of 1/0.85
  5. 31-?: exponential with a common ratio of 1/0.9

The final values are also rounded to the nearest number divisible by 5.  Here are my resulting Google Sheets formulas (where n is the step, or level of the next Attribute, and Xn is the cost of that Attribute):

  1. 1-4: Xn = n
  2. 5-9: Xn = 5*ROUND((1/5)*(3/2)^(n-1),0)
  3. 10-21: Xn = 5*ROUND((51/15)*(5/4)^(n-1),0)
  4. 22-31: Xn = 5*ROUND(58/5*(1/0.85)^(n-1),0)
  5. 31-?: Xn = 5*ROUND(11665/36/5*(1/0.9)^(n-1),0)

These formulas are not perfect, but they successfully predict the known costs of an Attribute for each step up to level 99, with a margin of error of about 0.028%.

The question is, how high does this formula take us?  Some AMS systems reach a plateau for costs (troop enhancement via spray, I believe), so does this formula go to ∞, or does it peak out at some maximum cost per step?  If we assume it applies to ∞ (and this is a big assumption), we can build a spreadsheet that gives us the cost for each step.

Getting back to our Vampire - the Vampire attributes have two tracks: the right side is the development track, where most (but not all) of the attributes we want for maximum resource production are.  The left side is the deployment track, which is mostly (but not completely) comprised of battle attributes.  We can now count the number of steps required to max out a side, then sum up the costs for each step to find out how many Air Force Tactical Points it takes to max each side.

To max out the left (deployment) it requires 150 steps (we get this by adding the number of steps for each Attribute).  If we assume the formula above carries on to ∞, my calculations show that this equates to 21.3 Billion Air Force Tactical Points to max out a Vampire for Attack purposes.  This is compared to the 109.8 Million required to max out the F117.

To max out the right (development) side of a Vampire it requires 162 steps.  Again, if we assume the formula above carries to ∞, my calculations suggest that it takes 75.4 Billion Air Force Tactical Points to max out a Vampire for Development purposes.

What if we want to max out the Vampire for both sides?  We can't simply add 21.3B + 75.4B.  Instead, you have to calculate the sum of all costs for 312 steps.  This calculates to a whopping  495,911,656,025,378,000, or 495.9 Quadrillion Air Force Tactical Points.

The good news?  You can use the Air Force Tactical Points +50% Battlefield Buff to cut all of these numbers in half!

Now, I must admit, I don't know if my assumption that the formula applies to ∞ is correct, and that it doesn't max out at some steady cost instead.  I did hear on Facebook that one person was actually able to max their Vampire and it took them 3 years, and this suggests to me that there might be a maximum cost per step at some level higher than 98.  If anyone from AMS (or anyone else for that matter) wants to check my math and let me know anything I'm missing I'm all ears.