Thread:JonathanNStewart/@comment-25114779-20161023175535

"I have a general question, and this seems like the best place for it. Do we want to represent the numbers that the game shows (rounded-off) or that the game uses (exact)?"



"As an example, quantities (above 10,000) and times (above 1 day) are rounded off if they become too big, but the unrounded values are still used. The clearest place this matters is the total amount of fish/wood after collecting for the full time. It's given to a single fish/wood, while if for higher levels the rounded off shown values are used to calculate it, the value becomes rather inaccurate."



Please use the rounded off numbers the game itself “shows” when inputting the collection times. There is not enough space in these tables and as I saw on your editing, you are probably still estimating some these collection times anyhow.





"Apart from the binary rounding problem, it is possible to calculate a lot of values directly, without having to look for them at every dragon level. The fish/wood gathering per hour can be directly calculated from the single values given in the Book of Dragons, for example; the fish for release is the total amount of fish fed divided by four, etc. This makes filling in the dragon pages accurately much easier (and I'd be happy to write that up, and/or provide a program to calculate them)."



You neglected to notice that at a point in the game there is a reset and that for some dragons the release values change (see Battle Groncicle and Smidvarg for examples).

In the Release section the values are abbreviated to reflect what the game itself displays.





"The downside to accuracy is the longer time strings, making the page seem more cluttered, and the round-off errors in the game itself. For example, the amount of fish/wood needed is occasionally something like 317,249,984, where it is clear 317,250,000 was intended. The difference is always 4, 8, 16, etc. so it's due to a binary round-off problem within the game."



317,250,000 would be preferred.

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