darkSpyro

I'm not sure if anyone will find this interesting but I've tracked the Gem payouts from all my premium houses to see how many Gems I'm actually earning. I tried doing this 6 months back but dropped the ball after a few days so this time I collected all the data first before presenting it. The spreadsheet covers 17 days because it felt like work to add more columns.

Premium House Gem Payouts

I'm not sure if anyone else is going to find this interesting but it reinforces the advice I've been giving for a while about the premium houses eventually paying for themselves. What do you guys think?

Might want to change it from premium to something else. Since we now know that the devs consider the mabu houses that cost gems premium houses. I saw the title and thought premium houses were starting to pay gems. I was about to get bummed I didn't buy some during the 75% off sale

Nice work! I've wanted to do this for some time too, but never have. I'm really surprised at the number of gems you get from the dragon house and dark house. My anecdotal experience hasn't matched that. I mostly get energy from my dragon house (which frustrates me, since I put spyro in there in the hopes that I can take advantage of his #1 fan bonus when it's a gold payout). Even if your results pan out over the long run, 1200 gemss for one of those houses, or even 600, still seems very expensive.

We're you you using particular legendaries in 1 and 4 or was it purely random?

What makes them any different than say 8?

Nice work..

Were you collecting the different kinds of houses the same number of times each day, or did you collect dragon/dark houses and HQs more frequently because of the shorter timer?

It would be interesting to see the data show as 'per collection' with a stat on how many collections it would take to earn the cost of the house.

@obidawsn: I realize it can be confusing I just ran out of ideas as to what to call them collectively. It was easy when they were just Giant houses and not an issue when Alter Egos were given homes but after that Giant/Alter Ego/Bird/Dark/Dragon/Sidekick houses & Halls of Legend became a mouthful.

@Excelsior: Random. I only assigned them numbers to keep track of their payouts individually.

@Qanai: The original spreadsheet actually had payouts tracked by collection but it quick became an eye sore (at least to me). Also I wanted the chart to be more representative of what a "normal" player would see from these houses.

That said the 6 hour houses were collected from at least 3 times a day, 4 hour houses 4+ times, and the 2 hour houses 6+ times.

Hi portalflip would you be interested in updating this for payouts post the molekin market? I have a gut feeling the payout of gems out of all my houses has decreased inline with my gem increase from molekin each day.

Literally some days i get no gems out of my houses when i always had at leadt 3 or 4

If you could get some hard evidence that would be helpful

Ps. I consider posts like yours on this to be the essence of this forum. Helping new and old players with this information, someone having a thought and we all pitch into tease out the idea and make sense of the game.

I don't have the wonderful tracking of Portalflip, but my gut is telling me the payouts have been the same. I also have the occasional day when no houses give out gems, but I know that happened to me before getting Diggs too. I have also had the occasional day (pre and post Diggs) when it seemed like almost every house was giving out gems. Usually though, it's in the middle for me.

I've had several gem payouts, lately. I've even had some max payouts (6-8 gems). I actually had quite a few gem payouts, this morning. It's all really random, so it's possible that it happened not to produce any gems in a day.

It is random. I've had days with none of my houses giving a gem to having a half a dozen or more pop them.

I understand that there are days when the houses dont pay out. What i mean is that i think over time, a week or more, the payout frequency has dropped.
Ive been playing for over a year, when the developers release a new way to get gems they usually decrease gems in another area of the game.
They have to keep the gem economy balanced otherwise they end up with inflation, ie everything just costs more and more gems.
So since portaflip has tracked pre diggs payouts perhaps some post diggs payout tracking will give us an indication of where the devs are headed?