Excelsior

Cygnus wrote:

yes, one sample size is completely valid

True, one sample size isn't something to be set in stone, however, I was checking consistently for over 8 weeks and I never had a perfect harvest so it DOES suggest something doesn't it?

no.

Adrias wrote:

Cygnus wrote:

yes, one sample size is completely valid

True, one sample size isn't something to be set in stone, however, I was checking consistently for over 8 weeks and I never had a perfect harvest so it DOES suggest something doesn't it?

no.

Well, of course it does. It suggests that they checked consistently for over 8 weeks and never had a perfect harvest

After reading Cygnus's post last week I switched to the 2 Agility potions instead of 1 and have seen a marked improvement in the production of honey not so much the wax.
I think it's a given now, getting 2-3 hives out of 24 skipping a production day, but other than that, all good.

My thanks to Cygnus and all.

After reading Cygnus's post last week I switched to the 2 Agility potions instead of 1 and have seen a marked improvement in the production of honey not so much the wax.

Just a FYI for all
For Thriving 100k colony hives
1 agility = 10 wax 30 honey
2 agility = 13 wax 40 honey

that would equate to approximately 2k gold more per day for 1 more potion consumed.

Some more data:

low sample size so it means nothing... but perhaps interesting to someone

over a week, harvesting approximately the same day/time

38 hives
2 agility, 0 str, 0 heal, required cure/poison each day
7 days

harvest:
2119 raw wax (theoretical max = 13*7*38 = 3458) = 61.2%
2179 honey (theoretical max = (40*7*38)/3 = 3546) = 61.4%

2119 raw wax produced 1911 pure wax = 90% (was doing 255 at a time)
= $1,676,900

not that much more than 25 hives...

Sorry to hijack the topic for a sec, but I noticed that ppl use either none or only one Greater Strength potions, instead of the two suggested by the Wiki. What difference does it make?* Any?

*Except gold spent for regs to make GS pots.

Ilsanor wrote:Sorry to hijack the topic for a sec, but I noticed that ppl use either none or only one Greater Strength potions, instead of the two suggested by the Wiki. What difference does it make?* Any?

The point of GS is to maintain hive health at "thriving," and I find that one GS is good enough. With no GS I used to get hives randomly dropping to "healthy" much more often.

As for the ideal number of hives, I had 24 for hundreds of days, then recently dropped four to see what would happen. I didn't keep any records, but I did noticeably better with 24 than with 20, so I added the four back.

anarchy wrote:if you spaced out the water and plants in a hex formation you will get much better results (less maintenance).

I found this very interesting to read. What is a hex formation? Do you (or anyone else) have a picture or drawing of it?

Cheers,
SD

Hi Everyone I'm not sure why it works for me, but I don't use GS anymore at all. My hives are always thriving but I usually always have to apply 1 of each of all the others & of course the 2 GA's. Other then that they are always thriving, unless I accidentally miss a day
Thanks!

anyone know how much it would cost to get a beekeeper in a house..?

100 eds

Anyone considered influence of walls on quantity of failures?
If I place 24 beehives in one room, and 24 in another?
Or on another floors?

Zhivoi wrote:Anyone considered influence of walls on quantity of failures?
If I place 24 beehives in one room, and 24 in another?
Or on another floors?

Considering that it counts your beehives by your account and not where they are located...

ok ive heard ppl tell me u can have only 25 and ive heard ppl say they have 50 hives how many can we place per account..?

you can place as many as you want but after 25sh it becomes counterproductive