Heart of corruption

Audrey is troll.
Do not feed trolls.

I am thinking its an accumulation of hits. I will be sending another 50k sometime today. Try to get another tentacle to show. But it takes my units 4 days to arrive. But if another tentacle does grow ,will be getting closer to figuring out how many it does take. Right now I am thinking about 25-30k units gets some growth.

I have been sending charioteers, but usually less than 1k at a time.  Do the little hits count for nothing?  Or is it an accumulation of all hits?

Ten Kulch wrote: But how much had Audrey eaten beforehand? Didn't someone publish a study of feeding the HoC on this forum?

First, great experiment Zap! We should do more.


Ten Kulch, There were various experiments but only partial conclusions which were not super specific. e.g. we know military units seem to work faster. Do all units definitely help when eaten? Is it gold per hour/experience worth which matters? If I recall, Audrey needs to eat more and more every additional square so that the first few after she goes to sleep are easy, but the last few are the hardest. I would not swear to that, but it is the impression a lot of people had.

The 30k scouts tests generally agrees with previous hypotheses that
1. Scouts are also good Audrey food
2. Somewhere in the realm of 50k experience worth of units (that number is definitely not close to precise) might be enough when Audrey is 'medium'


Given the developers penchant, my guess is that there is a semi-nice formula which depends on how many squares have already been corrupted. Since it usually takes months to wake Audrey up, and since waking her up usually takes lots of people but lots of people muddle up experiments, there haven't been all that many great experiments.

One of the most rigorous experiments (along with video evidence) is here: http://www.puzzleslogic.com/illy/home.html

That experiment shows around how many troops were needed for a couple specific squares, so give a decent starting point. A few other similar experiments might be enough to figure it all out completely. If anyone wants to try these experiments again, I think people would be interested in participating. Though... maybe not immediately since we just had the announcement of a new Kodabear-and-friends tournament to look forward to.