At 0300 us/pacific March 03, dynarank said you had 2104437 total inf
At 1500 us/pacific March 03, dynarank said you had 2195440 total inf
The difference is 91003

Is anyone else seeing a difference in reported inf amounts in game vs the dynarank tracking the dailies use?

Is this simply an issue of gross vs net and when decay is applied?

I don't know when the decay is running on the server right now, but decay doesn't seem to be part of this specific potential issue. 91003 vs 108057 is a rather small variation compared to Narkis' daily decay rate at the moment. The gross at 3pm vs 3am should be unaffected by game-applied decay (or dailies applied un-decay.)

I haven't been too active yet this round, so I'm a bit rusty on my infamatics.

Indeed, my decay is a bit more than 40k each day. That's the first thing I thought too, but the numbers don't add up. Now, I haven't noticed discrepancies on another day, and I've checked. I'll report it if I do see something.

Yeah, keep an eye on specifics. I can confirm the dailies are calculating correctly according to what they know from dynarank, but the accuracy of the data in dyna and what's actually recorded when you land a mission require more tracking.

Note that my decay adjustments kick in at a specific time, if it's not timed with the skyrates decay time, then things look funny for a few hours in the evening. I'm assuming it's still on the 2.5 post-HF timing as nobody has complained about it yet.

The influence dailies have been screwy for a couple of weeks now. Frequently I don't show up at all until about midnight PDT, not even as one of the people who have 0 inf that day. Other times it seems accurate to start with, then goes sideways -- today, for example, I was #2 at 2 pm, then completely disappeared at 3 pm, and at 9 pm I show as only 29k even though I've landed seven individual missions that are each larger than that between 3 am and 9 pm, plus of course hundreds of thousands of inf more in combined smaller missions. I haven't noticed this on either of the combat dailies, though I don't check too often, and I can't check on the trade dailies because I haven't traded for a dime in over two weeks.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

I really have no idea what it's using for the numbers. None of my completed missions since 10 PM last night add up to what it has as my daily total now, though one is fairly close. But since this is supposed to be pulling from the same numbers I'm looking at (and I don't have any odd bonuses like lucky cleaning or mentor) I have no idea what numbers it's looking at.

I decided yesterday to track my actual mission payouts against the dailies.

The lines at the top of every hour are taken from the dailies. I substitute the numbers in the "total" column for estimated or actual numbers at certain points. All times are EDT.



So far so good. Gross, net, and totals all track precisely. It's worth noting, as I hadn't noticed this before and I use this info later on, that the net column is a rolling sum of the total inf decay, calculated hourly, plus gross inf earned. For example, the net for 16:00 can be determined(though to a degree of uncertainty, since the total inf is rounded and always rounded down) by 257,686(gross inf) - ((7,188,000 total inf) * .02(rate of decay)). More importantly, we can use the commutative properties of addition and multiplication and figure out the total inf, though again with a degree of uncertainty, by calculating ((gross inf) - (net inf)) * 50.

Coming up, however, is the 17:30 EDT rollover, where flags change and the day's decay is deducted from total influence by the game servers. It's after this point that the dailies become more or less useless for 9 hours. People whose gross influence is less than their daily decay at this point go sub-zero on the dailies and won't show up again until they work their way out of the hole or until the shenanigans at 03:00 EDT.



I run into a problem here because I do not have the exact total inf for 17:00. I can get a number close to the reported 18:00 gross, within .002% accuracy, using a number of different calculations I omit here, which I chalk up to a rounding error.

However, from this point on a number reoccurs which is the difference between the tracked and actual gross influence numbers, 144,505, which I use above and assume is the daily decay subtracted from my influence total at the moment of rollover.



From 18:00 to 02:00 everything tracks precisely again. It's 03:00 EDT, or Midnight Pacific, when things go really wonky:



The total and net influence are accurate. There's a discrepancy of 4,940 between the tracked gross influence and the actual gross influence. You'll notice here that the actual net influence at 03:00 is exactly the same number as the tracked gross influence would be had things not gone wonky.



You see the discrepancy between the tracked gross influence and actual gross influence grow larger with each hour until the tracker stops for the day, however the total inf and net inf seem to track precisely and accurately.

Something's broken, but the heck if I know what it is. Probably my maths.

Hey, any chance you can add an "Everyone but Indie" option to the inf dailies?

That URL now redirects to http://www.awesomepennystocks.com/pd/. Do not want.

The one you probably want is http://skyrates.zosimple.net/, as linked in later threads.