Change: Increase General Promotion reward from Black Lotus by 100%

[xezon]

• Follow up to Change: Reduce China Black Lotus level up requirements by -82% #807

This change doubles the General Promotion rewards gained from Black Lotus.

Black Lotus XP

Level up requirements are unchanged.

Object	ExperienceRequired	req. Vehicle Hack count	req. Cash Hack count	req. Building Cap count
Original Black Lotus	150 450 900		08 23 45	08 23 45
Patched Black Lotus (1)	100 200 400	20 40 80	05 10 20	05 10 20
Patched Black Lotus (2)	040 080 160	08 16 32	04 08 16	02 04 08
Patched Super Lotus (2)	040 120 200	00 16 32	00 08 16	00 04 08
Patched Black Lotus (3) (this)	080 160 320	08 16 32	04 08 16	02 04 08
Patched Super Lotus (3) (this)	080 240 400	00 16 32	00 08 16	00 04 08

General Rank Farming from Black Lotus Vehicle Hack XP

In theory it can be abused to grind XP when an enemy unit has been trapped. Find below hack XP time estimations based on the proposed Vehicle Hack XP reward of 10. A vehicle hack takes around 5 seconds to complete.

General Rank	SkillPointsNeeded	req. Vehicle Hack count	req. Vehicle Hack time
2	800	80	400 seconds (06:40)
3	1500	150	750 seconds (12:30)
4	2500	250	1250 seconds (20:50)
5	5000	500	2500 seconds (41:40)

Rationale

Both Jarmen Kell and Colonel Burton can grant a fair amount of General Promotions to player, by killing infantry (~20 XP per kill) and by killing structures (~200 XP per kill). Originally Black Lotus is unable to compete with these rates.

[xezon]

I am a bit skeptical about this change. The rationale needs more number crunching to proof that Jarmen and Burton will give more Generals XP over time.

[ImTimK]

Think proof is already there?

Lotus rarely gets to Vet1 in actual games, so we know she rarely was rewarded 150xp or more for all her actions.

While for Jarmen and Burton it's pretty common to get to Vet3, which is 400xp and 600xp respectively (or 300xp with Advanced Training). After that they often wreck even more Havoc to farm xp.

[xezon]

True. We already estimated in #807 that Patched Black Lotus level up time is 2.1 times slower than Jarmen Kell. With the bumped Experience Reward Lotus still is much worse than Jarmen and Burton, so this change is safe.

Object	Rank 3 XP	est. Rank 3 time	XP per minute
Original Jarmen Kell	400	200 seconds (03:20)	120
Original Colonel Burton	600	240 seconds (04:00)	150
Patched Black Lotus (2)	160	420 seconds (07:00)	23
Patched Black Lotus (3) (this)	320	420 seconds (07:00)	46

[xezon]

It would be good if we put this all these calculations in the experience sheet somehow. Doing it by hand kinda sucks.

[xezon]

Looks ok. Should improve code comments.

[xezon]

Comments fixed. Good to submit?

[MTKing4]

ok from my side

[ImTimK]

fine