Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150622153601/@comment-31410685-20170227223034

@RR3 Michael P

Several people here have said that your chart is off by a factor of 2. Let me explain it more clearly. Take level 99 for an example: 100000 fame for 22 GC reward, or 4546 fame per GC. This means that each gold is worth 4546 fame, so if you pay 1 gold for the agent on a race that normally rewards 2273 (your chart's claimed "break even" point), the agent will award an additional 2273 fame, which is only worth 0.5 GC. If you do that 22 times to level up, you will gain 22 gold, but you spent 22 gold on the agent, so you effectively gain 0 gold. Only difference is, you wasted the time to do 22 races and have nothing to show for it.

So at level 99, if you pay for the agent on races at the chart's "break even" point, you will LOSE 11 GC over the course of the level. The chart's "break even" column is actually the calculation for "waste exactly 100% of my level up rewards on the agent."

The "earn double" column provides the real break even number. Same example, at level 99, if you do 11 races at 4546 with the agent, you'll spend 11 GC and gain 22. If you don't hire the agent for those 11 races, you'll gain half a level (which is worth 11 gold). At this fame amount, you will gain 11 GC whether you hire the agent or not. That's the real break even point.