Originally posted by /u/XansHuzzah
I’ve seen a number of posts asking about pollution in the game and quite a bit of confusion. I too was confused so I made a calculator and a write up with equations about how pollution in game works. This covers
The calculator is a google sheet where you can fill in all your options, and the PDF is writeup of the effects and the actual equations behind them, best I could understand from the source code (including a TL;DR summary at the top).
Feel free to make copies and let me know suggestions about how to improve it.
Calculator (Google Sheets): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZLoYIUA9xujY6Sj_5gUk0fdqTxnbVv9B298qnVx9kCw/edit?usp=sharing
PDF Writeup: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lVRklkhVME6nBg8_pLCsqsgXBNx6QKcj/view?usp=sharing
EDIT: Includes a Time until stage X and Equilibrium calculations
EDIT: Includes Winter Has Come
XansHuzzah
Dunno then. By all means though, if you find a bug, go a head and let me know here and I’ll fix it. Between the way the solar panels are calculated, the diminishing return math, and the differential equation, its very possible I’ve got a typo or a number wrong somewhere since spreadsheets are not the greatest way to handle that type of computation.
Oh! Check the changelog. Since you have to make your own copy of the sheet, I found a miscalculation in how I was computing solar cells in version 1.1 of the sheet. Version 1.2 corrects this (as well as the Winter Is Coming award). That might be enough to throw off the numbers “just slightly.”