Crystal Mine

==Description==
Crystal is a precious resource requiring special mining techniques to harvest.
==Info==
Level	Build/Upgrade Costs	Build/Upgrade Costs	Build/Upgrade Costs	Build/Upgrade Times	Sell Price
Level	Gold 	Crystal 	Castle Level 	Build/Upgrade Times	Sell Price
1 	12000 	X 	3 	Instant 	4200 Gold
2 	3000 	600 	9 	120 Minutes 	4200 Gold
3 	5000 	1000 	15 	240 Minutes 	4200 Gold
4 	8000 	1600 	21 	360 Minutes 	4200 Gold
5 	12000 	2400 	27 	480 Minutes 	4200 Gold
Hours / Level	1 	1 	2 	2 	3 	3 	4 	4 	5 	5
Hours / Level	15px	15px / Hour	15px	15px / Hour	15px	15px / Hour	15px	15px / Hour	15px	15px / Hour
1 Hour 	60 	60 	70 	70 	80 	80 	90 	90 	100 	100
3 Hours 	153 	51 	178 	59 	204 	68 	229 	76 	255 	85
6 Hours 	252 	42 	294 	49 	336 	56 	378 	63 	420 	70
9 Hours 	296 	33 	349 	39 	395 	44 	445 	49 	494 	55
===Crystal Mines per Player Level===
#Player Level 3
#Player Level 7
#Player Level 10
#Player Level 14
#Player Level 17
#Player Level 21
===Crystal Mine Misc.===
*The Crystal Mine is a 5x5 square building.
*Maximum of 6 Crystal Mines.
A Crystal Mine upgrade has a payback cost in the sense that you spend Gold and Crystal as well as time (while it is upgrading, it is not making Crystal). Furthermore, building a Crystal Mine has similar invested costs. We calculate the TrueCost of a Crystal Mine build/upgrade by taking its Gold cost(dividing by 5 for Gold to Crystal value ratio) + its Crystal cost + its downtime Crystal cost. Example: Upgrading a level 1 mine is GoldCost(12,000/5=2,400)+CrystalCost(600)+TimeCost(120) = TrueCost(1,320). Therefore the first upgrade has a Crystal cost to you of 1,320. Then assuming you can use a Crystal Mine non-stop at 1 hour sets(highly unlikely), your increased Crystal revenue produced is 10 per hour. So in order to be paid back the cost to you, it will take 132 hours of peak mining or 5.5 days of non stop hourly mining. The following chart breaks down the TrueCost and Hours needed for all level of upgrades:
Upgrade Level	Gold Cost in Crystal	Crystal Cost in Crystal	Time Cost in Crystal	Total Cost in Crystal	
Crystal Increase Peak Hour	Peak Break Even Hours
1 	2,400 	0 	0 	2,400 	60	40 Hours or 1.7 Days
2 	600 	600 	120 	1,320 	10	132 Hours or 5.5 Days
3 	1,000 	1,000 	240 	2,240 	10	224 Hours or 9.3 Days
4 	1,600 	1,600 	480 	3,680 	10	368 Hours or 15.3 Days
5 	2,400 	2,400 	720 	5,520 	10	552 Hours or 23 Days
These are peak hours for paying back the TrueCost. Anything less than 1 hour mining cycles causes the payback for a mine or upgrades to be even more severe. It should be noted that the mines will payback upgrades and costs concurrently. In otherwords, if you make 2 Upgrades at the same time, both upgrades are being paid back at the same time. So if a level 30 player built a Mine and upgraded it straight to level 5, it would be paid off completely in a total of 30 days of non-stop 1 hour mining. As a general average, based on typical power mining (1 hour reps for most of a day + 9 hour rep while player sleeps) the Building of a Mine takes 2 days before it is paid back, Upgrade to level 2 takes 1 week, Upgrade to level 3 takes 2 weeks, Upgrade to level 4 takes 4 weeks and Upgrade to level 5 takes 6 weeks. A casual player, who 1 hour reps while playing, does a 9 hour rep while working and a 9 hour rep while sleeping can expect an additional 1-2 weeks across the board respectively.
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