Also - I feel it would be better if it showed the current 'resale' price of the item as opposed to its selling price in the Store (which is what is sold now under the 'Production Sale Value' section.

Take 1* boxes for example -

The current production sale value for a Small Workshop is 1,322e

The small workshop makes 1 small box in 3 hours
The current price of buying a 1* Box from the store is 1,322e

But when I go to sell my box back to the store - the usual rule of 'The shop will buy back everything that you no longer use for 50 % of its value' applies.

So this means if I sell that box back - I actually only receive 661e as opposed to the full buying price of 1,322e

If I do the math of resource cost vs. sale price:

661e sale price
500e for resources (250e for 25x Wood - 250e for 25x Sand)

Actual profit made; 161e

*Here's my numbers from the International version with a Large Workshop showing the same thing that they were bought back at 1/2 the cost;

12th May 2015
The 3 x Box 1* crafted in one of your workshops sold for 1 983 equus.

If we divide that by 3 - we get the price of 661e per box (same as on here right now)


Also, the 'Average profit per hour of production' is the same as it is based on the full price of the item in the store when buying it as opposed to the true 'resell price'. In addition - there are a lot of errors with that. Using 1* Boxes again...

The page states that it takes 2 Hours to craft a 1* Box - this is not true, it takes 3 hours to craft a 1* box. In addition - even if it did only take 2 hours...the profit of 550e per hour is also incorrect (550 + 550 = 1100...we're still 222e short of the actual profit. The correct 'profit per hour' would be 440e at the proper 3 hour mark...661e at the 2 hour mark..

The correct correct numbers (that is - the actual Production Sale Value and Average profit per hour of production) would be:

Production Sale Value = 661e
Average profit per hour production = 220e

*I do understand that these are just estimates as according to the page (as some numbers can't be calculated truly (that 220e should actually be 220.33) - but even as such, some of them are way off on how much of an actual profit one makes.

This is my only complaint about the new features - everything else, I like (well, I lack a Western EC so I can't say if I like the aspect of Calves and Cutting but default smiley )

The time between going up in tools ( scuba, water tanks etc) is too long ( up to 2 days to wait)

You DO get more digs per time when allowed 9 10).

There are 162 bones and each one must be dug up 3 times for it to fully register. ( but you do not have to get 162 x 3 just that a bone in the neck for example will need to be found 3 times before that one bone shows up completely.

This will be very pass oriented.

I will post more as I go farther into the promo.

Until 21/05/2015 15:42, buy a set of 3 mines for only one pass. Each mine allows you to perform an additional search. In addition, the mine allows you to more easily find bones and gifts, and avoid unpleasant surprises!

From Shorah( Int Mod)

If you break it down a bit further and balance pass use with regular digs.

Say this promotion is running for 2 weeks - that's 14 days.

Let's keep with the current tool that gives 10 digs a day. This is a total of 140 digs.

We'll say that we get a bone 6 out of the 10 digs - so this is 6 bones per day.

The skeleton takes 162 bones...

6 x 14 = 84 Bones

So we're short 78 bones.

Now - each Pass spent on mine packs gives you 3 digs...For easy math - we'll say you find a bone with 2 out of the 3 mines each time.

So to make up those 78 bones...You'd need to use about 39 passes.

That's a lot better than the 100+ of using nothing but passes to go from start to finish.

*Note, these are just basic calculations and should not be taken as fact. This is strictly meant as a sort of 'guide' to show that the actual event would not be as expensive.

Here is the comparison from the Cursed sands we had a while ago and her thoughts on this promo compared to the Sands one.

Things I like about this vs. the original Cursed Sands

1. More digs per time with the upgraded tools. According to another website - when it came to the Cursed Sands..the tool upgrades were;

none: one excavation every 12 hours

toothbrush?: two excavations every twelve hours

paintbrush: three excavations every twelve hours

shovel: three excavations every six hours; costs 20 relics

pickax: four excavations every six hours; costs 35 relics

jackhammer: four excavations every four hours; costs 50 relics

Right now - it was only a trade of 1 relic, and the tool I have (if I'm translating right - is 10 digs every 24 hours...way better than the original at the start of just 2 to 4 digs per 24 hours with the basic tools)

2. More options to complete the objectives if a trap is found. WIth the original - I recall the only options were do the objective, or wait out the time. This one has the 'do objective option' - pay equus option - and *for me at least* watch a video option (I think there was also the wait it out option).

things I don't like about this;

1. Very tedious.

2. Short of my first dig - I've yet to find any sort of prize. All I've found is mostly relics and a handful of bones. Not exactly a bad thing (as it means better tools) but not exactly a good thing either.

Meh, either way - it's nice to have a different promotion that usual, and great to see a return of an oldie.

The Treat is VERY helpful

^See on the map in the bottom right corner, that's as far as I got with one horse in one go. The horse I used had 6021 skills. *Edit: of course this was on International, so our horses don't have that many skills*