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Fjorab_Teke wrote:I think regular barracks (for soldiers only) and regular hospitals rest up your pets faster than regular houses. I have two barracks and two hospitals and a whole bunch of houses. Almost all are level 2.

Cranberry wrote:I only keep three nesters at a time, because hatching/discarding eggs is not where the money is. You make a lot more resources/level up faster if you have mostly workers (they harvest at about four times the speed of nesters).

I use the experience per hour per P3 to compare.

Since the Habitarium updates every 30 seconds and every worker earns 2-3 experience per update, that's somewhere between:

(120 updates/hour) * (2 exp/update) = 240 exp/hour
(120 updates/hour) * (3 exp/update) = 360 exp/hour

Meanwhile a nester in a level 3 nest will create a finished egg in 50 minutes (supposedly). Discarding that egg is 200 experience.

(7/6 eggs/hour) * (200 exp/egg) = 233 exp/hour

Worker pros:
* Can be left alone for up to 8 hours
* Average experience is likely higher
* Provides you with a steady supply of resources!
* Usually unaffected by pests (unless the pests destroy a resource)
* Doesn't require a nest to be productive
* Doesn't require you to actively harvest NP

Nester pros:
* Usually regains stamina when left on a finished egg
* Will finish an egg even if your Habitarium is closed (and will fully recover)
* Replenishes your P3s
* Won't stop nesting even if attacked by a pest
* Only generates gems when you delete the eggs - won't fill your Habitarium while you're away


There's some argument to each, and I was making good NP from pure nesters. I don't tend to leave my computer up and running, so workers are useless at night. But I admit after I saw that level 3 workers harvested 2+ NP per update I shifted my balance to the workers.

Cranberry wrote: * Only generates gems when you delete the eggs - won't fill your Habitarium while you're away