Talk:Improve

I did a series of improves on woven fences and determined the following formulas for improving woven fences with wood scraps:

• scrapQL: Quality of the wood scrap used for the improve action
• fenceQL: Quality if the fence before improving
• skill: Carpentry skill. At low skill the effective skill appears to be 1.36 * real skill (tested on test with 4-8 carpentry skill)
• maxQL: best Quality you can ever reach with the skill and the specific wood scrap
• inc: best increment possible with the skill and the specific wood scrap

maxQL = (skill + scrapQL) / 2;

inc = (maxQL - fenceQL) / 5;

If the fenceQL is already higher than maxQL you'll get the message You cannnot improve the fence with that item and your knowledge

Example: Using 1.58QL wood scraps and 81.52 carpentry skill the maximum QL a woven fence can be improved to is 41.55QL. After improving the fence 10 times it reached 37.36QL. After 20 improve actions it reached 41.10QL and 41.40QL after 25 and 41.50QL after 30 improves.

• Exact scrap QL: 1.576906 (determined from creating 3 unfinished fences)
• Exact skill 81.510471-81.522926

The determined error for the maxQL was less than precision of the reported carpentry skill.

Fence improving example

# Improve	Fence QL
Start	2,576906
1	10,37099
2	16,606256
3	21,594471
4	25,585041
5	28,777498
6	31,331463
7	33,374634
8	35,00943
9	36,31727
10	37,36354
11	38,200558
12	38,87017
13	39,40586
14	39,83467
15	40,17798
16	40,452625
17	40,672344
18	40,848118
19	40,988735
20	41,10123
21	41,191227
22	41,263226
23	41,320824
24	41,3669
25	41,403763
26	41,433254
27	41,456844
28	41,47572
29	41,491077
30	41,503365

--Ago 16:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)