If you dive into the program memory, there's GameHistoryData's miningCostRate and miningSpeedScale variables, which are single precision floats. These are the values I've verified:
| Level Researched | miningCostRate | miningSpeedScale |
|---|---|---|
| None researched | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 1 | 0.93999999761581 | 1.1000000238419 |
| 2 | 0.88359999656677 | 1.2000000476837 |
| 5 | 0.73390400409698 | 1.5000001192093 |
| 6 | 0.68986976146698 | 1.6000001430511 |
At level 590, your speed will max a blue belt with 1 vein.
You might only need to get to Level 1681 before floating point rounding causes miningCostRate to be 0 because of lack of precision.
In the TechStates array in memory, there are 10,000 level as the max level to the tech.
--76561198010365021 (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Finite ressources for infinite reseach
I've done some math and excel sheets and I've found out, that you only need a limited amound of raw ore veines to get infinite ressources through this "Veins Utilization (Upgrade)", I want to present my thought progress here:
1. As of version 0.8.19 of DSP this upgrade gives -6% ore consumed per research and scales linearly with +4000 Universe matrices
2. The growth of cost is linear, while the reduction of cost is logarithmic therefore the loarithmic wins in long term cost determination
3. I then multiplied universe matrices needed with the current vein consumption factor and thereby found out how many "raw" ressources (depleted from veins) e.g. lvl 6, the first infinite research: 4000 (matrices cost) x 69% (nice)(factor of vein consumption) => 2760 (cost of matrices with 100% vein consumption)
4. Search for limits:
4.1 The most expensive research is lvl 21 with a net ore consumption of 17453 Universe matrices if mined at 100% vein consumption 4.2 Total cost up to that point: 208,275 mining efficency: 26.1% (lvl 20 stat; 25,36% after research is finished) 4.3 First reseach that is cheaper than the lvl 6 (vein wise ofc): lvl 75 at 2703 net matrics vien consumption, which results in 280,000 total matrices 4.4 Total cost of all reseach: after dragging my excel sheet down for quite a while (then adding zeros) I realized that cost would never surpass ~766,522 matrices, meaning you have infinite ressources at that point 4.5 Calculation of total cost: (I'll only be taking non infinite ones into account(excludes fire ice)) values from DSP Calculator
| Ressource | One Matrics | 766,522 |
|---|---|---|
| Iron | 29 | 22.23 Mio. |
| Copper | 16 | 12.26 Mio. |
| Coal | 32 | 24.53 Mio. |
| Titan | 17 | 13.03 Mio. |
| Stone | 8 | 6.13 Mio. |
| Oil | 15 | 11.5 Mio. |
| Organic crystal | 2 | 1.53 Mio. |
| Silicon | 28 | 21.46 Mio. |
I'm not 100% certain about these numbers, but I hope my point gets across, also you still need to refine these ressources which will drain a lot of computational power which will be the bottleneck there