Is this the best affection upgrade order?

[Moe Overload]

I've been looking at min-maxing my harem income stream. Looking at the income chart on the wiki, it looks like the most efficient way is to just level up the haremettes in terms of increasing affection cost. It might make sense to focus on those with long recharge times (and large per click incomes), but I check HH about every half- hour while at work to do PvP and collect money, so focusing on the average is better for me.

Taking that into account, upgrade costs appear to completely dominate the income stream, so I think it makes sense to upgrade everyone in tiers, and possibly focusing on higher income haremettes within the same tier. Does this sound right?

 

Star rank    Aff.  Upgrade cost
Starter 1*     90    36,000
Common 1*    180    72,000
Starter 2*    225    90,000
Common 2*    450    180,000
Rare 1*        540    216,000
Starter 3*    563    225,000
Common 3*    1,125    450,000
Starter 4*    1,125    450,000
Epic 1*        1,260    504,000
Rare 2*        1,350    540,000
Legendary 1*    1,800    720,000
Common 4*    2,250    900,000
Starter 5*    2,250    900,000
Epic 2*        3,150    1,260,000
Rare 3*        3,375    1,350,000
Legendary 2*    4,500    1,800,000
Common 5*    4,500    1,800,000
Rare 4*        6,750    2,700,000
Epic 3*        7,875    3,150,000
Legendary 3*    11,250    4,500,000
Rare 5*        13,500    5,400,000
Epic 4*        15,750    6,300,000
Legendary 4*    22,500    9,000,000
Epic 5*        31,500    12,600,000
Legendary 5*    45,000    18,000,000

[[CNO] BananaJoy]

would do everything to 2 star. thats not really expensive. after that doing it after rarity. lowest rarity first and highest rarity last. i am quiet finished with everything only a few legendarys left. only exception r girls for ur battle team. these u should upgrade first over all others.

[PlusIon]

I would echo what @BananaJoy advises. The tiers you speak of would simply be the rarity of the girls. You could granulate the girls within each tier which I have done, but after starter and common are done, it is simply going from the second to the third star. The exceptions are Metal Noemy, Summer Geekette, and the 3 legendary event girls.

[_shal_]

If you want to upgrade most effectively (and you're somebody who picks up the money frequently), the relevant value to compare is cost divided by added hourly income.

Leaving out the 4 World 1 girls and Princess Agate, who have very idiosyncratic income levels, the numbers for all girls are:

0 stars: 800/h
1 star: 900/h (+100)
2 stars: 1050/h (+150)
3 stars: 1270/h (+220)
4 stars: 1700/h (+430; 2000 / +730 for Legendaries)
5 stars: 3100/h (+1400; 3600 / +1600 for Legendaries)

Give or take a bit to account for the various differing pickup timers.

That gives the following theoretical ideal upgrade order (I'm listing only the cash costs - in thousands - as the affection costs are scaled exactly the same way):

Class      Upgrd   Cash   +Inc    C/+I
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Starter     0>1      36    100    0.36
Starter     1>2      90    150    0.60
Starter     4>5     900   1400    0.64
Common      0>1      72    100    0.72
Starter     2>3     225    220    1.02
Starter     3>4     450    430    1.05
Common      1>2     180    150    1.20
Common      4>5    1800   1400    1.29
Common      2>3     450    220    2.05
Common      3>4     900    430    2.09
Rare        0>1     216    100    2.16
Rare        1>2     540    150    3.60
Rare        4>5    5400   1400    3.86
Epic        0>1     504    100    5.04
Rare        2>3    1350    220    6.14
Rare        3>4    2700    430    6.28
Legendary   0>1     720    100    7.20
Epic        1>2    1260    150    8.40
Epic        4>5   12600   1400    9.00
Legendary   4>5   18000   1600   11.25
Legendary   1>2    1800    150   12.00
Legendary   3>4    9000    730   12.33
Epic        2>3    3150    220   14.32
Epic        3>4    6300    430   14.65
Legendary   2>3    4500    220   20.45

Obviously that suffers from some logistical problems (5-star upgrades being more worthwhile than 3- and 4-star), and it also includes some fairly irrelevant steps (Metal Noemy is the only 5-star rare girl, Summer Geekette the only 5-star epic), so a cleaned up sensible order would look something like this, IMHO:

Class      Upgrd   Cash   +Inc    C/+I
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Starter     0>1      36    100    0.36
Starter     1>2      90    150    0.60
Common      0>1      72    100    0.72
Starter     2>3     225    220    1.02
Starter     3>4     450    430    1.05
Starter     4>5     900   1400    0.64
Common      1>2     180    150    1.20
Common      2>3     450    220    2.05
Common      3>4     900    430    2.09
Common      4>5    1800   1400    1.29
Rare        0>1     216    100    2.16
Rare        1>2     540    150    3.60
Epic        0>1     504    100    5.04
Rare        2>3    1350    220    6.14
Legendary   0>1     720    100    7.20
Epic        1>2    1260    150    8.40
Legendary   1>2    1800    150   12.00
Epic        2>3    3150    220   14.32
Legendary   2>3    4500    220   20.45
Legendary   3>4    9000    730   12.33
Legendary   4>5   18000   1600   11.25

 

Edited August 18, 2018 by _shal_

[Ben9]

A big factor is how often you can login, as the incomes are all relative to you actually collecting on time.  0* is usually a very short frequency so if you have a tendency to sit online and collect them the second they end, they're actually quite profitable.  But if you go away for example for an hour or longer at a time, they are very bad.

That aside, just considering the payouts the income bump from 4* to 5* is usually bigger than any other bump, and usually coincides with cost as most 5* girls are low tier so far.  So I don't agree with evenly raising stars across the board.  My upgrade path is something like this:

Starters -> 1-3*

Common -> 1-2*

Starters -> 5* (or 3* if thats their limit)

Common -> 5* (or 3* if thats their limit)

Rare, Epic, raise evenly doing all Rare first before any Epic.

Legendary = only worth putting any money into for pvp, or if everything else is done

 

Only exceptions to this are 5* rares and epics

Edit: I see shal posted same time as me, pretty much agreeing with this but raising all starters first.  Sounds about right.

Edited August 18, 2018 by Ben9

[Moe Overload]

On 8/18/2018 at 8:40 AM, _shal_ said:

Words and tables

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

[Zteev]

Personally, I tend to do what many have said, which is immediately up new girls to 2 stars. Have even managed this on the legendaries I have, but 1 was in my class, and the other I was saving affection items up to do that.

My personal tiebreak among girls of same commonality & current star level is how long it take to get the income. I know I'm going to miss collection times,  and sleep, of course, so I lean towards doing those with longer collection times.

Of course if I am using the girl in Arena, she will level on a faster schedule, but I will push those over with gifts if I have surplus funds to do it.

 

Edited August 23, 2018 by Zteev