Home › Forums › Angry Birds Epic Forum › Economics of Pig Cherry Juice › Reply To: Economics of Pig Cherry Juice
Update: assuming 2.14 stars per roll on average, as you calculated, then per the above methodology, potions cooked up from the basic ingredients cost 138 S/PCJ vs. buying them for 60. Of course getting the resources for free from battles lowers this, potentially down to zero.
I agree with you about “time” being what we really “invest” in the game, unless you spend $.
Also, as you point out there is *no* alternative to spending Snoutlings at the DOJO , the Professor’s (etc). There *is* an alternative for potions — make vs. buy. So, until you’re at a high level and “finished” spending Snoutlings on upgrades and thus have a choice, probably best to save them to spend on upgrades.
In my experience, games like these encourage the player to move forward just rapidly enough such that s/he is always on the edge and thus feels the need to spend $, but not too frustrated to give up. If one would pause forward progress for a while, and significantly level up, while also collecting resources, then one would not need to use so much stuff when progress through the levels is resumed.