Should I upgrade my bee?

Day 10

Dear Diary,

So I have this bee with 165 endurance. At 175 it can go 1 zone up, wich is 6% more endurance. Should I upgrade my bee or not?!

If I boost the bee from zone 4 to zone 5, it will go from a 52.2% halving penalty to a 61.41% halving penalty, meaning I will get a ~18% boost on his agility and capacity.

The bee will go from 0.5748 daily to 0.6762 daily. A difference of 0.1 per day. Per month this is about 3HXD difference.

6% endurance has a value of 18 HXD at this moment (item marketplace). So it would take me half a year to get those costs back and only after that it it would gain me more. It's not a great return.

However, there is a little more to it. But now it will get complicated, so if you can't follow it (yet), feel free to skip or maybe re-read it after a couple of weeks playing honeyland.

I have 3 other bees that are Meadow. I generally send those in a team of 3 for extra boosts.

Their stats are not synced, so they will leave the land at 3 different times. This means only 1 bee will get the 15% boost, 1 bee will get 5% boost and 1 bee will get nothing. If I send this bee along, I will get 2 bees with 15% boost, 1 with 5% boost and 1 with nothing.

I'm going to take a shortcut now in calculating this. You should calculate it on the exact order the bees will leave, but I'll take an average. I had an ((15+5)/3)=6.7% boost on average on my bees before, now I will have a ((15+15+5)/4)=8.8% boost.

They brought in a total of 1.7505 per run, which would now be 1.7850 per run, another 3.1 HXD extra per month. Now the return is 3 months and on top of this all, the bee will be worth more if I would want to re-sell it, because of the higher zone it can reach.

So, should I upgrade my bee?!

As I've showed you, it depends on many factors. There is some real strategy and resource management involved here. That's why I personally love Honeyland! Every case is different and for every case you'll have to do the math again. but for this specific one:

YES!

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