An undiscussed topic about Maker

For giggles I ran a simulation of these formulas on Fiel's diamond stockpile, assuming the goal was to maximize the number of high quality diamonds and sell them, and here's what came out in 5 runs of the simulation.

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Phase	High	Mid	Low	Cost
Appraisal	169	805	3403	437,700,000
Upgrading Lows	169	1097	4	231,300,000
Upgrading Mids	253	9	4	166,000,000
Total				835,000,000
Break Even Fee				3,300,395
5m Profit				430,000,000
10m Profit				1,695,000,000

Phase	High	Mid	Low	Cost
Appraisal	243	806	3328	437,700,000
Upgrading Lows	243	1102	4	198,000,000
Upgrading Mids	334	3	4	140,000,000
Total				775,700,000
Break Even Fee				2,322,455
5m Profit				894,300,000
10m Profit				2,564,300,000

Phase	High	Mid	Low	Cost
Appraisal	221	959	3197	437,700,000
Upgrading Lows	221	1238	1	205,500,000
Upgrading Mids	324	2	1	154,500,000
Total				797,700,000
Break Even Fee				2,462,037
5m Profit				822,300,000
10m Profit				2,442,300,000

Phase	High	Mid	Low	Cost
Appraisal	230	856	3291	437,700,000
Upgrading Lows	230	1147	4	200,400,000
Upgrading Mids	324	7	4	147,000,000
Total				785,100,000
Break Even Fee				2,423,148
5m Profit				834,900,000
10m Profit				2,454,900,000

Phase	High	Mid	Low	Cost
Appraisal	221	972	3184	437,700,000
Upgrading Lows	221	1239	0	234,300,000
Upgrading Mids	311	8	0	210,500,000
Total				882,500,000
Break Even Fee				2,837,621
5m Profit				672,500,000
10m Profit				2,227,500,000

Basically as long as high grades retail for at least 3m you break even. anything above that is profit. I've heard guesses of up to 25m for them so I'd say a certain chinchilla is anticipating some heavy yields there as long as he has the income to afford this level of processing in the first place.

Edit* I forgot to mention, for those who don't see it, it's a significantly higher profit:expense ratio to only bother selling the appraised ones - Upgrading will earn you more, but it also takes more time and costs more, and isn't as big a return as the intiail appraisal, just an incremental boost because you lose so many. If those lower grades sell at all they may be worth more to sell than to try upgrading.

Edit2*Went back and repopulated the sample simulations after realizing half the formulas were hard coded to 3200 from beta testing. Oops. Real figures now.