The price of sitting in the que VS one time premium donating.

Being cost effective is what matters to me, ingame and in real life, so i thought to write this down.

Let's compare the cost of letting your computer run while in the que VS the one time donation of 10 euro to skip said que.
At a certain point your computer will have used a certain amount of kilowatt hours of energy worth the amount to get a premium account.
Let's calculate exactly when that is.

I've read some threads and people claim they sit in the que for almost half a day, let's be generous and say : 12 hours in que a day

Now let's look at the average kw/h price average in europe (where most warmane players live).
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statist..._kWh)_YB16.png

An average cost of 21 eurocent/kw H on a computer sitting in que and probably doing other things.
This computer uses in this case probably 250 watt/hour+ 75 watt monitor/audio.

So at 325watt/hour X 12 hours a day at a rate of 21 eurocent/kwh it would have costed you 0,82 euro/day.

Which means it would take you 12,1 days sitting in the que before you wasted the worth of one premium donation amount and skip que forever!

Adjust values for your country, hours of sitting in the que and computer setup wattage usage to know your case. :)

TLDR afk in que for 6 days and you wasted a premium donation worth of energy in the que.

Of course any reasonable person will chose to donate, same logic applies to buying items in the shop: a BIS item will cost me X amount of euro or at least 2 months of raiding with a proper guild, therefore I will probably chose to donate and get it.

Not the same logic. People raid for fun, because they enjoy playing the content. Not sure about you, but I haven't met a player yet that enjoys the challenge of making it past the queue to get online.

dayum when i think about the energy i wasted... idk if i hit 300euro yet tho xD

You need to account for depreciation of the computer being turned on for the time also, so its probably slightly less than 12,1 days. Depending on the cost of equipment. But gj, hopefully it helps some people with their decision >P

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Originally Posted by taiha

You need to account for depreciation of the computer being turned on for the time also, so its probably slightly less than 12,1 days. Depending on the cost of equipment. But gj, hopefully it helps some people with their decision >P

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They are still too young to buy guns so i doubt it .

You are my hero Aleastraszabcde, just wanted to tell you that

325W is huge, its 200 tops.