We aren't exactly sure what's going on with it.Can someone find out what my max plunder is and explain why the 1kcs = 15M isn't working again? I'm currently at 198kcs
1kcs = 15M says it's 2.97B but I hired more tutors and my plunder kept increasing. It stopped increasing when I had 17.7B worth in tutors.
I think the plunder system may have changed.
For my alt account @Nicholashq , I'm at 3.85mcs and the 1mcs = 15B wasn't correct either. I saw another comment from @GODNarcis that said it's now 1mcs = 30B and surprisingly, it worked. The money from parties/fights didn't go any higher after I used the 1mcs = 30B formula.
So did the devs do something to the max plunder?
Can other players try to mess around with their tutors and see if what I'm saying is true? Or maybe I didn't listen well in math class
After talking to Narcis I tried to do some investigwtion of my own, and we spoke to the developers and asked them about what factors could be included.
They mentioned things like the VIP lounge, use of care packages, and fite bars which multiply your plunder by a factor. I had long assumed that this multiplicative effect wouldn't then require you to spend more money to try and get the bonuses from your tutors, and frankly still haven't checked if activating those requires you to spend more on tuts to get more for the full effect.
(but that would be quite easy to measure).
The developers also mentioned a bonus from your rs which I recall from when I was new. This would not be multiplicative and would be additive perhaps increasing the cost of max plunder.
And causing you to need to spend more. In your case, your rs is much larger than you, so I wouldn't be shocked if that was the reason.
Figuring out the maths and influence of an rs, and how much they can affect things (for example it could be revealed that there are 2 tiers of max plunder. One at 15m and one at 30m*kcs. And the latter is unlocked when you have an rs?)
A few people tested it and conferred with other people. Nobody over 1mcs seemed to have that added cost, but I think the best advice for any player surrounding plunder is just to keep hiring until you stop getting more money from parties.
This would need a lot of testing, and it is odd that nobody requires more than double the old estimate.