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re: Which one of you made $10k last month mining Helium?

Posted on 3/27/24 at 11:04 am to
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
28738 posts
Posted on 3/27/24 at 11:04 am to
Oh I see, yeah the hex cooldown period not the data update period. Blog post about it says 1 hour, but my app says 15 minute cooldown. They also don't give a precise size of a hex, just that one hex is about 2 basketball courts and that 40 of them lined up is 1 mile. I guess Americans really will use any system but metric. That gives me anywhere between 130' and 200'. Maybe one "measure" is the long way (point to point) and the other is the short way (flat to flat)?

But taking the worst of all that, squaring a hex out to 200'x200', and going with 1 hour cooldown, that still gives more than 16,000 mapping opportunities per square mile per day on the low end. That's good for 400 users per square mile, so Miami proper could support maybe 20k subs and the greater metro area maybe 100k? Obviously people tend to cluster so there will be a lot of ineligible maps, but I have also way underestimated the total possible mapping opportunities. Assuming the cooldown is really 15 minutes and 40 hexes lined up is a mile, that's 40x40x96=153,600 mapping opportunities per square mile rather than 16k.

I think they'll tweak the numbers if people aren't happy.
Posted by Fat Batman
Gotham City, NJ
Member since Oct 2019
1409 posts
Posted on 3/27/24 at 11:24 am to
yeah that doesn't sound too bad, but its also assuming the app accurately tracks you for that mile. we already know the app doesn't have the best record for accurately tracking. people are already reporting having driven many miles with no hexes mapped today. also saw a single person, so take with a grain of salt, mention that there is a bug in the android app. my app is definitely not working great today on my pixel 7 pro. blank on majority of attempts to open and and when it does it takes a super long time to refresh the mapping page if it even refreshes. hoping they sort everything out. just kinda frustrating they keep breaking mapping for me. i feel like i finally figure it out and am consistently rewarded, something changes and its another couple of days/weeks before I'm consistently rewarded again. I had a couple months worth of missed rewards back when they were 4k-9k a day. however, i've still got over 400k MOBILE on just $5 spent, so can't complain too much .
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