Shim
21-01-2008, 07:17 PM
Ok guys,
I know im not supposed to say this but i read most of the forums arround about EU. Now most of the time i read thread about mining and something has been erking me for a long time. So im going to start a discussion about it starting with my views. The topic is finders.
Ok now we all know that certain areas hold certain resources. Also we know that resources live at certain depths in the ground, at least in a range. An example of this is Lyst is shallow and Gold is deep. We also know that finders have different average search depths. Now the key word here is AVERAGE, this indicates that the finder can actually find deeper then that number. Now since i have proven that that is true it leaves a hole. in order to have an average there has to be a banalce.
Ok for sake of argument lets build a test case. Lets use a finder that has an average search depth of 400m. Ok now imediatally you may think that you can find from 400m up and then some distance further down. If we apply this to the average depth concept that would mean that i have a range of 0 - 800 m. Now this is not so hard to swallow but lets take a finder with a 700m ave search depth. We now have a range of 0 - 1400m.
I have been doing a study on this and this is not the case. The average search depth means the same as above but the range is closer to +- 320m reguardless. So my finder with a 400, the range is 80-720, and the finder with 700 is 380-1020.
Now the question is why would you think that going mining with the latter finder to find lyst would yield good results.
If you all want my results posted from my findings let me know. The search area of a probe/bomb is pretty interesting as well. Most of it is preliminary because i would need thousands of finds with all the data to get a crystal clear picture.
I know im not supposed to say this but i read most of the forums arround about EU. Now most of the time i read thread about mining and something has been erking me for a long time. So im going to start a discussion about it starting with my views. The topic is finders.
Ok now we all know that certain areas hold certain resources. Also we know that resources live at certain depths in the ground, at least in a range. An example of this is Lyst is shallow and Gold is deep. We also know that finders have different average search depths. Now the key word here is AVERAGE, this indicates that the finder can actually find deeper then that number. Now since i have proven that that is true it leaves a hole. in order to have an average there has to be a banalce.
Ok for sake of argument lets build a test case. Lets use a finder that has an average search depth of 400m. Ok now imediatally you may think that you can find from 400m up and then some distance further down. If we apply this to the average depth concept that would mean that i have a range of 0 - 800 m. Now this is not so hard to swallow but lets take a finder with a 700m ave search depth. We now have a range of 0 - 1400m.
I have been doing a study on this and this is not the case. The average search depth means the same as above but the range is closer to +- 320m reguardless. So my finder with a 400, the range is 80-720, and the finder with 700 is 380-1020.
Now the question is why would you think that going mining with the latter finder to find lyst would yield good results.
If you all want my results posted from my findings let me know. The search area of a probe/bomb is pretty interesting as well. Most of it is preliminary because i would need thousands of finds with all the data to get a crystal clear picture.