Buy 50 bombers with GOLD

I don't know if my math is correct, but, for Tactical Bombers, it takes about 1275 gold per plane, which is 63750 gold for 50 planes. 64,000 gold costs about 20 dollars Canadian, so I'm sure it wouldn't cost much different in US dollars.

I might be wrong, but that's what I've come to conclude.

It depends on a few variables as well:

- Did your opponent already have the resources on hand?

- What level is his Industrial Complex?

- Did he have the required buildings/Research already? (Air Base Level 2/IC in this case)

- How did he buy his gold - what batch as well as were there any bonuses active for him when he got it? (obviously no way for you to know this for sure)

So for example, cheapest case scenario: 50 bombers with all resources, buildings, research completed, strictly time to build boosts on a level 5 IC is roughly 1075 gold per bomber - 1075 x 50 = 53,750 gold. If your opponent purchased the $200 bundle along with a 1000% bonus (dunno if this is possible, highest bonus I have ever been offered myself is 900% but I have seen it mentioned in the forums, and I also have never purchased gold so no idea if the bonus is a straight multiplier or has weird quirks when buying larger packs) then that's 7.6 MILLION gold, or a rate of 38k gold per dollar. 53750/38000 = $1.41 spent.

Take that same scenario at the cheapest gold batch with no bonus active, you're looking at $2 for 5k gold, or only 2500 gold per dollar. Now that same 53750 gold is equivalent to $21.50.

It also gets considerably more expensive if you have to buy the resources as well, for tac bombers it's roughly 3400 gold to buy the resources for 1 bomber (likely more because you can't buy a specific amount of resources, only 5k increments). Regardless, 50 bombers worth of resources is around 332k gold before you even build any of them. That's $8.74 at the cheapest and a whopping $132.80 at the most.

Javman - FYI. Gold can be purchased in incremental packages as follows :

5k = $2 , 13k= $5 , 30k=$10 , 64k=$20 , 100k=$30 , 170k=$50 , 360k=$100 & 760k for $200.

Those are the 'standard' prices.At certain times special bonuses apply (ie.,50% on all purchases,+20% for the next hour)

When using gold( yep,I have on a couple occasions) to buy a unit,it will Only buy the resources Needed to complete it.

(ie.if you are only 125 oil short,it will use the gold to buy 125 oil.If you need multiple,it will but just those)

Or,you can "bulk buy" a specific resource (5k for 2,500 gold-except $$,that's 15,000 for 2,500 gold)

After a couple purchases,unless he's got a HUGE stockpile of resources,he'll be whiped out and each bomber's gonna be ..well,it ain't gonna be cheap.That's to get production Started.Then it's another 850G to 'rush' production 12 hours.Add another X to finish it off (it gets pro-rated under 12 hours) So,900G for a 13 hour build up to 1700 for a 24 hour build.

Oh,"only" 1700 to rush it 24 hours,that's not so bad [color=#008000],suure,that's PER unit.PLUS the cost to buy the resources.

Works out to 5,100G to 'rush' 3 units 24 hours.Finarfin said his opponent did 50.

For 5k of each resource you can get about 3 bombers (depending which,and your IC )

A rough guess...I'd say his opponent just dropped $30 buying those bombers.Rough guess.

-edit- after getting $10 worth of gold,I'll admit my guesstimate was a BIT low.More like $100 for those bombers.

yeah,I was just on the Receiving end of such a spree.NOT fun.NOT at all.

Moved to Off Topic.

I think it's a waste of gold. He should have used it on ships or tanks. Planes are to fragile to waste gold on.

Carl Wilson wrote:

I think it's a waste of gold.