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This is an intermediary page for the purposes of calculating the University Laboratory Grind.

Work in Progress...

Current Phase: Mapping all relevant calculations in Module:Test1 module LG which includes most cards from University Laboratory (Guide)/Cards to be tied in with the Template:Calculator/WIP Experiment Length RpA iteration1. All test pages, of course.

Assumptions[edit]

PoSI to Late-Game Characters[edit]

Game Milestones:
- Ambition Reward - unobtained
- Profession - any one T3
- Boons - none
- FATE - at most, enough for Lab. Eq. 9

Main Attributes:
- Watchful / Persuasive / Dangerous / Shadowy ≈ 250 (Accounting for items)

Advanced Skills:
- Shapeling Arts ≈ 10 (7 +3)
- Glasswork ≈ 13 (7 +6)
- Kataleptic Toxicology ≈ 12 (7 +5)
- Monstrous Anatomy ≈ 12 (7 +5)
- Artisan of the Red Science ≈ 10 (7 +3)
- Zeefaring ≈ 12 (7 +5)

Miscellaneous:
- A Scholar of the Correspondence: 10
- All utilised Student's level: 5
- Number of Workers in the Lab: 3
- G.H.R. reaching: up to and including The Magistracy

Remark: Due to the variability in personal player choice, only items that can be easily acquired by simple participation (or Waswood commemoration) will be taken into account in regards to world events. Furthermore, any item which requires a non-story-driven grind, will be left unaccounted for (Overgoat / Cider / Hellworm) .

End-Game Characters[edit]

Game Milestones:
- Ambition Reward - any one Reward
- Profession - any one T3
- Boons - Exemptional Friendship Boon (Inconsistent data)
- FATE - enough to account for: Eq. 9 / 4 assistant slots / etc.

Main Attributes:
- Watchful / Persuasive / Dangerous / Shadowy ≈ 300 (Accounting for items)

Advanced Skills:
- Shapeling Arts ≈ 15
- Glasswork ≈ 15
- Kataleptic Toxicology ≈ 17
- Monstrous Anatomy ≈ 17
- Artisan of the Red Science ≈ 19
- Zeefaring ≈ 18

Miscellaneous:
- A Scholar of the Correspondence: 21
- All utilised Student's level: 5
- Number of Workers in the Lab: 3 to 4
- G.H.R. reaching: Marigold Station

Remark: End-Game players tend to have large investments of both time, and real money into the game, both as a form of support for the creators and to enable quick advancements into new stories and world events. Thus, they hit the high end of any check by the sheer amount of items and facilities at their disposal.

Analysis[edit]

Laboratory Experiments are separated in three distinct categories:

Short - where only your experts' and students' cards are permitted.
List:

Long - where along with your experts' and students' cards, there are others, such as: Refresh your Consumables, and Directing your Team.
List:

Exceedingly Long - where along with the precursor mentions, infrequent cards with impressive research gains are added: Running out of Steam, and Running out of Terms
List:
- Perform conclusive tests
- Create a Cartographer's Hoard
- Glass Gazettes (125)
- [[]]
- [[]]

- - Remark that additional, ambition or item related cards were factored in when deemed relevant, such examples include: Invoke the Long-Dead Priests, or Involve Your Secret College.

Thus, the EpA is as follows:

**Table1:**
Experiment length	Equipment	RPA
Short	4	16.58
	7	20.12
	9	22.50
End-game	9	33.16
Long	4
	7
	9
End-game	9
Exceedingly	4
	7
	9
End-game	9

- The Short/Long/Exceeding were calculated keeping in mind their respective experiments. Say, no experts could apply their expertise, if no short experiments required such, thus, no expertise options were included in the Short category.

Any and all resources should be fully utilized unless otherwise specified, considering that at the end of the experiment any resource which has not been used will turned into Collated Research, thus giving the following values:

Unavoidable Epiphanies and Unwise Ideas valued at 1.5 ;
Unexpected Results with Unlikely Connections valued at 0.5 ;

Which is a waste considering their contributions in any experiment through Laboratory Research.

Below it is a list used sort the best for any material according to the player game-stage and accessibility:

**Material Use Table:**
Card	Card Option	Consumable	Laboratory Research
Eureka!	Make a profound realisation	Unavoidable Epiphany	30 ^[1] 39 ^[2] 45 ^[3]
The Intrusion of a Thought	Any option	All Unwise Idea	20 × Unwise Idea ^[4]
Directing your Team	Put them to work examining data	Unexpected Result	28 ^[1] 33 ^[2] 37 ^[3]
Specific Endgame optimization
			42 ^[3]
Rely on a laboratory expert	Apply a particular expertise in a novel way	Unlikely Connection	14 ^[1] 34 ^[5] 20 ^[2] 43 ^[5] 24 ^[3] 49 ^[5]
Specific Endgame optimization
Unorthodox Methods	Any option	Unlikely Connection	33 ^[3] 75 ^[5]

Research Preparations, is a special case, as it only helps in lowering the difficulty of checks, which only adds 1 research to very specific cases, rendering it only partially useful in very long experiments where an initial action investment is worth in the long run.

But the Laboratory offers many more options, such as the possibility of actually ending your tiresome research! All conclusions have their own values in proportional with work you put (more or less). By personal count, these differ quite a bit, from 0.18 EpR for finishing Attar, to 0.12 EpR from finishing an Imposible Theorem.

However this is neglecting the Parabolan Research, which is required to a lesser extent in some experiments while pertaining to a more consistent, and intuitive approach seen below:

5 PRpA for those with at least one expert;
11 PRpA for those who finished their ambition and began their advanced studies;
14 PRpA for those who can prepare a visionary student with finished studies;
21 PRpA if the hungry fellow^[6] aids you with finished studies;

Overview[edit]

Research[edit]

With varying results impacted by material costs, equipment scaling, assistance aid, students collaboration and different kinds of research and experiments, the best results are achieved through complete consumption of all acquired research items in the most profitable way possible, according to various circumstances, as well as understanding key points about the Laboratory:

Research gains are almost always proportional to your Equipment, as such, the higher the level, the more research is gained per action; (see analysis above for more information)
- But in general, it is ideal to upgrade your laboratory as much as possible if you plan on embarking on long experiments, or multiple consecutive experiments, such as Amphibian, Avian, Marine, and Arachnid Surveys; raising attribute caps for Kataleptic Toxicology, Monstrous Anatomy and Artisan of the Red Science; or augmenting all your three Parabolic Generals;

Experts give high amounts of research when applied in their aptitude, or with a specific student; making them unquestionably a must have in your laboratory;
- Furthermore, a fully staffed lab repels dark green border cards such as Unpacking crates or Washing Up, which give minimal research while cluttering your hand, which is important since no card can be discarded in this area;

Research through students is inherently tied to your experts, as each expert has their favourite assistant aiding with their specific proficiency. The table below shows all the complementary Expert-Student combinations available, as well as the field of expertise these synergy assist in:

**Expertise Table:**
Expert	Experimental Object	Experimental Focus	Compatible Students/Experts
April ^[7]	(see table)(UnLawful)	Red Science Focus	Profound Student Lettice, the Mercy
Cora Bagley ^[8]	1001-1200 (Mathematical)		Visionary Student
Esurient Smith ^[6]	101-200 (Weapons) 301-400 (Engineering)		Profound Student Lettice, the Mercy
F.F. Gebrandt	901-1000 (Chemistry)		Profound Student
Hephaesta ^[9]	201-300 (Cartography) 820	Nautical Focus	Visionary Student
Lettice, the Mercy	401-500 (Biological)		Gifted Student April Esurient Smith
Numismatrix	250; 980 (Numismatics) 1301-1600 (History)
Percipient Cricketer FATE		Correspondence Focus	Profound Student
Reformed Protester FATE	101-200 (Weapons)
Silk-Clad Expert FATE	401-500 (Biological)		Gifted Student
Stoic Classicist FATE	1301-1600 (History)
The Eldest Daughter FATE		Toxicological Focus

Experimental Focuses require specific experts, and often bring cards that can speed up the research through the use of non-consumable external items;

Experiments[edit]

Each experiment can be completed for a fair cost of both normal and parabolan research, and will offer a reward which can be sold in a plethora of methods, most of which were accounted below:

(Require recalculations)

For Impossible Theorem; these requirements are, 13000 x Laboratory Research, and 300 x Parabolan Research, which can be solved at a rate of 2.78 EpA with 7 Equipment, a Visionary Student, finished Glasswork studies, and 250 Main Attributes;
- 3.19 EpA^[3]
- 3.24 EpA^[3] ^[6]
- 3.42 EpA^[3] ^[8]

For Attar; these requirements are, 450 x Laboratory Research, and 15 x Parabolan Research, which can be solved at a rate of 3.58 EpA, with the use of the Rat Market, 7 , Visionary Student, finished Glasswork studies, F.F. Gebrandt as your main expert, and 250 Main Attributes;
- 4 EpA^[3]
- 4.21 EpA^[6]

For Infernal Sharpshooter's Rifle; these requirements are, 100 + 1650 x Laboratory Research, and no Parabolan Research, which can be solved at a rate of 3.03 EpA, or 5.96 SpA with the use the Emporium of Curiosities and Peculiarities, 7 , and 250 Main Attributes;
- 3.47 EpA / 6.83 SpA^[3]
- 3.56 EpA / 7.02 SpA^[3] ^[10]
- 3.71 EpA / 7.3 SpA^[3] ^[6]
- 3.81 EpA / 7.5 SpA^[3] ^[6] ^[10]

For Cartographer's Hoard; these requirements are, 2700 x Laboratory Research, and no Parabolan Research, which can be solved at a rate of 3.48 EpA, with the use of the Rat Market, or 5.43 SpA with the use the Upper River Exchange, 7 , and 250 Main Attributes;
- 4.01 EpA / 6.26 SpA^[3]
- 4.3 EpA / 6.72 SpA^[3] ^[9]

Work In Progress...

Accounting Options Table[edit]

**Research from Options:**
Card	Option	4 Equipment	7 Equipment	9 Equipment	End-Game	Optimal?
Form New Hypotheses 20%	Review the possibilities	13 LR	16 LR	18 LR	18 LR	✗
	Consider every possibility	14 LR	18 LR	21 LR	35 LR	✓
	No more of this!	12 LR	15 LR	17 LR	17 LR	✓
Review the Prior Literature 10%	Read the canonical texts; make pertinent notes	9 LR	12 LR	14 LR	14 LR	✗
	Chase down every last citation	12 LR	16 LR	19 LR	31 LR	✓
	Gather some unofficial literature	14 LR	18 LR	21 LR	30 LR	$
	Relate this problem to a past Enigma		-1 x Searing Enigma 500 x Laboratory Research 1 x Unavoidable Epiphany			$$$
	No more of this!	12 LR	15 LR	17 LR	17 LR	✓
Engage in some Empirical Research 10%	Perform a comparatively simple experiment	17 LR	20 LR	23 LR	27 LR	✓
Engage in some Empirical Research 10%	Hook up all the meters and stand well back	17 LR	20 LR	23 LR	27 LR	✓
Refresh your Consumables 10%	Work through a trusted intermediary	16 LR	22 LR	26 LR	26 LR	✓
	Rely on illicit contacts	6 LR	15 LR	21 LR	25 LR	✗
	Demand a delivery ^[8] / Allow your possessions to propagate on your own ^[9] / Appropriate whatever you need ^[7]	- LR	- LR	- LR	36 LR	✓
The Intrusion of a Thought 8%	Any option	20 × Unwise Idea	20 × Unwise Idea	20 × Unwise Idea	20 × Unwise Idea	✓
Invoke the Long-Dead Priests ^[7] 8%	Put them to work examining data	- LR	- LR	- LR	33 LR	✓
Directing your Team 8%	Phobophagic rites	28 LR	33 LR	37 LR	42 LR	✓
	Give them a line of inquiry to follow up on	28 LR	33 LR	37 LR	42 LR	✗ ^[11]
	Coordinate a plan of research (No )	18 LR	20 LR	22 LR	26 LR	✓
	Coordinate a plan of research ( )	18 LR	21 LR	23 LR	28 LR
	Give them a day off	11 LR	15 LR	17 LR	17 LR
	Take a day off	20 LR	22 LR	24 LR	27 LR
Eureka! 8%	Make a profound realisation	30 LR	39 LR	45 LR	45 LR	✓
Involve Your Secret College 5%	Write to your Secret College for help	18 LR	22 LR	26 LR	45 LR	✓
Involve Your Secret College 5%	Broaden your research	19(≈) LR	24 LR	28 LR	39(≈) LR	✓
Write Up Your Findings 5%	Review the possibilities	13 LR	16 LR	18 LR	18 LR	✓
Write Up Your Findings 5%	Consider every possibility	11 LR	14 LR	16 LR	18 LR	✗
Running out of Steam 2%	Go for a walk	25 LR	32 LR	37 LR	40 LR	✓
	Brew another pot of tea	13 LR	19 LR	23 LR	23 LR	✗
	Take an extended sabbatical	33 LR	37 LR	40 LR	40 LR	✓
Running out of Terms 2%	Pull another alphabet off the shelf	12 LR	15 LR	17 LR	17 LR	✗
Running out of Terms 2%	Combine Greek and Latin	30 LR	39 LR	45 LR	45 LR	✓
Rely on your Esurient Smith ^[6] 10%	See whether he has anything to offer	- LR	- LR	- LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply his particular expertise in a novel way	- LR	- LR	- LR	32 LR	✓
	Rely on his knowledge	- LR	- LR	- LR	33 LR
	Have him collaborate with Lettice	- LR	- LR	- LR	37 LR
	Have him supervise the Profound Student	- LR	- LR	- LR	34 LR
Rely on F.F. Gebrandt 10%	Get her opinion on your research	7 LR	12 LR	15 LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply her particular expertise in a novel way	19 LR	24 LR	28 LR	32 LR	✓
	Rely on her knowledge of chemistry	22 LR	29 LR	33 LR	33 LR
	Let F.F. Gebrandt employ your Profound Student	21 LR	27 LR	31 LR	34 LR
Rely on Cora Bagley ^[8] 10%	See whether she has anything to offer	- LR	- LR	- LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply her particular expertise in a novel way	- LR	- LR	- LR	32 LR	✓
	Rely on her knowledge of numbers	- LR	- LR	- LR	33 LR
	Have Cora supervise your Visionary Student	- LR	- LR	- LR	35 LR
Rely on April ^[7] 10%	Ask her to help with ordinary research	- LR	- LR	- LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply a particular expertise in a novel way	- LR	- LR	- LR	32 LR	✓
	Ask her to help with research into the Red Science	- LR	- LR	- LR	34 LR
	Have her supervise the Profound Student	- LR	- LR	- LR	37 LR
	Have her and Lettice work together	- LR	- LR	- LR	32 LR
Rely on the Numismatrix 10%	Ask her to help with ordinary research	7 LR	12 LR	15 LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply her particular expertise in a novel way	14 LR	20 LR	24 LR	32 LR	✓
	Ask her to help with unusual research	17 LR	24 LR	29 LR	32 LR
	Ask for her special expertise on this project	21 LR	29 LR	34 LR	34 LR
Rely on Hephaesta ^[9] 10%	Seek her research opinion	- LR	- LR	- LR	15 LR	✗
	Apply a particular expertise in a novel way	- LR	- LR	- LR	32 LR	✓
	Seek her insight on nautical matters / charting of geology and bone strata	- LR	- LR	- LR	34 LR
	Seek her insight on maps	- LR	- LR	- LR	33 LR
	Have Hephaesta supervise your Visionary Student	- LR	- LR	- LR	35 LR
Rely on Lettice, the Mercy 10%	Ask her to help with ordinary research	33 LR	33 LR	33 LR	33 LR	✓
	Apply her particular expertise in a novel way	14 LR	20 LR	24 LR	32 LR
	Have her supervise the Gifted Student	20 LR	26 LR	30 LR	34 LR
Work with your Shifty Student 10%	Work with your Expert Student	7 LR	13 LR	17 LR	19 LR	✗
Work with your Shifty Student 10%	Encourage your student to work with his colleagues	27 LR	27 LR	27 LR	34 LR	✓
Work with your Meticulous Student 10%	Work with your expert student	11 LR	16 LR	19 LR	21 LR	✗
	Follow up a hunch with your student	26 LR	33 LR	39 LR	41 LR	✓
	Employ her help in tabulating some data	16 LR	19 LR	21 LR	23 LR	✓
Work with your Gifted Student 10%	Work with your expert student	14 LR	19 LR	22 LR	30 LR	✓
Work with your Gifted Student 10%	Follow up a hunch with your student	25 LR	33 LR	39 LR	41 LR	✓
Work with your Profound Student 10%	Work with your expert student	15 LR	21 LR	25 LR	26 LR	✓
Work with your Profound Student 10%	Follow up a hunch with your student	26 LR	34 LR	39 LR	43 LR	✓
Work with your Visionary Student 10%	Work with your expert student	16 LR	21 LR	25 LR	26 LR	✗
	Follow up a hunch with your student	26 LR	34 LR	39 LR	43 LR	✓
	Leave your student to their own devices	24 LR	30 LR	33 LR	40 LR	✓
Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science 8%	Formulate a theory	31 LR	31 LR	31 LR	38 LR	✓
	Resolve a paradox	31 LR	31 LR	31 LR	38 LR
	Contemplate your Impossible Theorem	31 LR	31 LR	31 LR	38 LR
	Contemplate your Element of Dawn	22 LR	22 LR	22 LR	30 LR	✗
	Study the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science / Recall the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science	22 LR	22 LR	22 LR	30 LR	✗
Draw on your Knowledge of the Shapeling Arts 10%	Consider a Fluke-Core	25 LR	29 LR	32 LR	39 LR	✓
	Meditate on your present shape	13 LR	13 LR	13 LR	30 LR	✗
	Explore a divergent form	16 LR	16 LR	16 LR	33 LR	✓
Draw on your Knowledge of Poisons 10%	Dose yourself	30 LR	30 LR	30 LR	34 LR	✗
	Understand the toxins swimming in your veins	30 LR	35 LR	38 LR	40 LR	✓
	Use what you know of the Second City	25 LR	25 LR	25 LR	25 LR	$
	Use your Cantigaster Venom in the process of studying	32 LR	32 LR	32 LR	36 LR	✗
	Dose somebody else	30 LR	30 LR	30 LR	34 LR	✓
Draw on your Knowledge of Monsters 8%	Apply your understanding of monsters	30 LR	30 LR	30 LR	34 LR	✓
	Meditate on what it means to be monstrous	30 LR	34 LR	37 LR	39 LR	✓
	Feed your Acute Squirrel a sample	30 LR	30 LR	30 LR	34 LR	✗
Draw on your nautical knowledge 8%	Examine your past charts and logs	30 LR	30 LR	30 LR	34 LR	✓
	Get help from Hephaesta	26 LR	33 LR	37 LR	39 LR	✓
	Recall a recent zee-voyage	30 LR	35 LR	38 LR	40 LR	$

✓ — Deemed optimal when compared to other options from the same card.

✗ — Deemed suboptimal when compared to other options from the same card or due to its poor use of lab resources.

$ - $$$ — Deemed costly, from slightly to highly, depending on the option. (Not to be confused with "✗")

Shortcomings[edit]

This analysis does not take into account End-Game attributes, which is a matter to be resolved at a later date, but which inevitably will affect the EpA of all listed experiments.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 4 Equipment
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 7 Equipment
↑ ^3.00 ^3.01 ^3.02 ^3.03 ^3.04 ^3.05 ^3.06 ^3.07 ^3.08 ^3.09 ^3.10 ^3.11 ^3.12 ^3.13 ^3.14 9 Equipment
↑ + / / × CP
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 with (+ U R / +2 Act.)
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 ^6.6 Only available through Ambition: Nemesis
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Only available through Ambition: Bag a Legend!
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 Only available through Ambition: Heart's Desire!
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 Only available through Ambition: Light Fingers!
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 6 Train Luxuries
↑ Suboptimal use of resources

[:3-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 4 Equipment

[:4-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 7 Equipment

[:5-3] 3.00 ^3.01 ^3.02 ^3.03 ^3.04 ^3.05 ^3.06 ^3.07 ^3.08 ^3.09 ^3.10 ^3.11 ^3.12 ^3.13 ^3.14 9 Equipment

[:1-4] + / / × CP

[:6-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 with (+ U R / +2 Act.)

[:11-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 ^6.6 Only available through Ambition: Nemesis

[:9-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Only available through Ambition: Bag a Legend!

[:10-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 Only available through Ambition: Heart's Desire!

[:12-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 Only available through Ambition: Light Fingers!

[:13-10] 10.0 ^10.1 6 Train Luxuries

[:14-11] Suboptimal use of resources

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