But how much has it cost to go from Level 1 to level 40 ? You can work out level 35 to 40 but what is the real cost ? Plus you have your TV on and maybe the lights in the house, cups of coffee .. Stereo surround all this item cost in electric too. What is the overall cost of playing the game to level 40?
Caution: Maths ahead.
Using
this as a guide for the experience
needed, and
this as a guide for experience
earned, all plugged into a pain in the ass Excel file to figure the most efficient means of achieving the required levels to advance and computing the required time to run the actual race and then adding in an additional 2 minutes for each race run to start the next race and the occasional oil change, we end up with... 465.5 hours.
The saddening thing is that there are still a ton of races missing from the second link I used above necessitating, for example, the running of one of the Sunday Cup races 82 times to go from level zero to 10 to move on.
So. Using the as-accurate-as-I-can-manage-with-the-provided-data, we end up with a grand total of
$6.14USD (((200*465.5)/1000)*.066). I'm actually quite surprised it's that low. As my receiver isn't on during B-Spec, the out of pocket is $0 (finally an easy equation!!!). As for the TV, let's assume that it's on for 10% of the time for the entire 465.5 hours, so 4.66 hours. My 50" plasma draws around 290 watts so (((290*4.66)/1000)*.066) comes out to
$0.09. Based on that, I think it's safe to assume that the 16 watt CFL's I have on for likely 1/4 of that 4.66 hours is negligible.
Note: All of the above prices are based on my current $0.066/kW. Your mileage
will vary.
Good lord. I think I need a drink now. Or will I have to quantify that into the price, too...?
