Thread:QuickNick/@comment-26829117-20170726202536/@comment-30967537-20170730192902

Well, that was interesting and rather amusing!

I re-visited all of my previous methods I used to try to determine the best car for each series. I also changed the weighting values assigned to various parameters of the calculations e.g. I recently changed the Gold from x1 to x5 to make it more important ... I now tried it with x1, x3, x5, x7, x10 ! I re-ran the strategy for all methods and weightings and calculated the total Gold and R$ cost ... which took a few hours.

Most of the methods, even though selecting different cars, returned costs which were strikingly similar, other methods were slightly more expensive but always within 1%. Obviously my tests aren't conclusive, changing the weightings could return different/lower costs and different strategies AND as more cars are added the landscape is constantly changing BUT after all of that it turns out that the re-weighted Gold x 5 calculation (which has a link on my blog) is the best with costs of Gold 39,972 Gold. R$ 188,242,600 ... the previous Gold x 1 calculation (even though it selected different "best" cars) was 39,981 Gold, a massive difference of 9 Gold!!!

My strategy is consistent in that once an upgrade strategy has been suggested, even if the car is not the "best" for the series the upgrade strategy is retained. I don't know if you do the same with your strategy? It would be interesting if you could calculate the total upgrade cost with your strategy to see how they compare.

Back to you!