Talk:Millibelle/@comment-33586098-20171111024629/@comment-33563159-20171111094601

I think that this is a great example of people sticking to a complicated hypothesis just because it was the first one. Some guy put 2500, got 5000 and thought "I got back double". Then another one came about and said "hey, I put 4500 and got 7000, so... the doubling is... limited?"

Instead of rejecting the doubling hypothesis, they just added a new, convoluted rule to it to explain the observations. In fact, both explanations fit what happens: either doubling with a maximum of 2500 or just adding 2500 explains reality. However, if we accept the game code as the objective truth, I don't think that the line reads "y = max(2*x, x + 2500)". I'd wager is more on the lines of "y = x + 2500". With "y" being what Millibelle drops and "x" what the player gave her.