Reference – Firefly Might (SWAG)

SWAG stands for Scientific Wild-Ass Guess.  Here is a SWAG for Firefly might.

*** WARNING ***

This is a Scientific Wild-Ass Guess (SWAG) of Firefly might, obtained using the error-prone technique of graphical analysis.

Use at your own risk, as the numbers should be ball-park accurate, but any feedback or updates are welcome!

Guestimated Firefly might for level 30 firefly at each difficulty:

Difficulty Level 30 Might
1 125,000
2 310,000
3 1,200,000
4 5,250,000
5 20,100,000
6 65,000,000
7 225,000,000
8 805,000,000
9 3,010,000,000
10 9,800,000,000
11 34,500,000,000
12 110,000,000,000

How To Use This Information

  1. Click on a Lair as if you are going to set up a Rally.
  2. Set up your march as if you were attacking a lair
  3. Note the troop might in the lower left.

In this case, my march will hit with just over 13 mil.  This is enough to complete level 4 (5 million) but not level 5 (20 million).

 

What Do You Mean By ‘Graphical Analysis’?

By capturing the “recommended might” from every firefly of the first 6 difficulties (well, most of them), I was able to plot this chart, which is not very useful:

However, by changing the vertical axis to logarithmic, it looks like this:

Note that these lines are now somewhat evenly spaced.  I did some number crunching, which wasn’t very fruitful, and sat on the data for a while, as I wasn’t sure what to do with it.

Then I did this:

  1. The gray blocks are an average of the spacing between difficulties.  This provides an extrapolation of each difficulty level.
  2. The purple and orange lines are a logarithmic scale that has been calibrated to the graph.
  3. Using the calibrated graph, measured the top (end point) of each gray block

Here is what this looks like zoomed in:

For example, the top of difficulty 6 is above 60 million on the purple scale, and right about at 5 on the orange scale, so 65,000,000.

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