引用自 revnant：

Oh he wanted to be there. It was the "final one" back when Infamy 25 was the max. So this was to go from 25-0 to 25-100 and he wanted to say he was there from beginning to end :)

Ah... gotcha.

引用自 revnant：

We calculated it out what we thought would get him from 0 -> 100 and just as we finished and escaped, his game crashed XD

RIP. On a serious note, maybe check what caused the crash. Anyhoo, here's how I boosted people, I do the cooking solo (since AI can auto defend) and I only invite people in when cashing out, since EXP is awarded only on securing bags.

引用自 Finale：

I counted the number of ingredients available, but unfortunately I've lost my notes. It was about 48 bags worth.

Max is 50.

引用自 revnant：

Oh, I guess one disadvantage of having so many bags in Cook-Off ... the longer the heist would likely be ... which also increases the changes of crashes... it happened to a buddy of mine while we were trying to boost his levels...

That's an inherent flaw of the system xD

Yeah the overall tedium of BC is discouraging me from tallying the statistics. Think I'll just stick to Cook Off.

Rats cooking mechanics for reference: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/pd2mech/discussions/0/1768134097436328938/

At first I thought it would be the same but no. Instead of adopting RNG like Rats/CookOff, Border Crystals is fixed (mostly).

After discovering lab, delay 30-40s, enable next ingredient.
After adding ingredient, delay 40-45s, enable next.
If last ingredient, delay 10-15s, spawn meth.
Meth bagged, delay 15s, enable next ingredient.

On average each bag takes 1m52.5s (42.5 + 42.5 + 12.5 + 15)

Upside, BC have less delay overall; no need to call in ingredients or wait for van.
Downside, less EXP per bag (6000 vs 8000), ingredients are all over the place, little cover (grabbing ingredients), more hectic than Cook Off (which can semi-idle).

Not so good with the math for CookOff's statistics and average time, so can't tell if BC or CookOff has better EXP/min at the moment. Might come back to it later.

引用自 Blake-辉：

*bad english warning!!!

In my experience, because the correct patient was

Round 1 Common (90%): e => aa => bb => dd => hr
Round 1 Rare (10%): e => aa => dd => cc

quite long than incorrect patient like Round 1: e => not a => hr

4or5 parts VS 3 parts, I mean the doctor always speech longer about correct patient than incorrect patient.

The interested part is, the doctor animation was alway shorter than the speech time of correct patient, so when see doctor is leaving and walk to next room, but she still speak while moving, that's mean the room she just stay was the right room.

In other word, the correct room: moving before finish the speech, the incorrect room: finish the speech and then move.

actually am not sure it work 100%, but to me it works everytime, if is wrong pls tell me, I think this approach will help the player who have the bad english like me ;)

That's a very interesting observation. Wrong speeches are short while correct ones are longer? I'll have to test that out.

Thanks again Blake!

引用自 Blake-辉：

3 PEOC Turret？I usually see two of them...

Ah thanks Blake. I rechecked and it seems the other turret exists, but never activates at all. I'll update that.

Thanks for reading AgentError! Not sure when but maybe someday I'll do a video on this.

Cheers :)

Just another random topic that piqued my interest after reading a forum discussion.
This is regarding the delay of each Bain's calling out of ingredients, which can make meth cooking short, or long, based on RNG. For science!

There is an element chance or for easy reference, "CanCook" function being called each time to check if Bain will call out the next ingredient.

CanCook is called the first time, 6 seconds after encountering the dead cooks or when the lab is found (Cook Off).
After cooking, spawn meth after 6 seconds.
After bagging, can CanCook again after 1 second.

CanCook function details

• Base chance is 5%
  
• If check fails, add 10% and call function again in 25 seconds. If successful, Bain will call out ingredient.
  
• After player adds correct ingredient, call function again in 25 seconds and repeat check
  
• On successful cooking each batch, reset back to 5% base chance

So discounting time taken to put ingredient, Bain's voicelines or in-between-batch delays, time taken to cook each bag can vary from 50 seconds to 300 seconds.

Time/chance progression:

Example, with instant ingredients:
0s - 5% fail, +10% (15%) and call in 25s
25s - 15% fail, +10% (25%) and call in 25s
50s - 25% success, place ingredient 1 and call in 25s
75s - 25% fail, +10% (35%) and call in 25s
100s - 35% success, place ingredient 2 and call in 25s
125s - 35% fail, +10% (45%) and call in 25s
150s - 45% fail, +10% (55%) and call in 25s
175s - 55% success, place ingredient 3
After bagging, reset to 5% and repeat function calls

Cook Off is exactly the same except for 3 things:
Base chance is 7%
When function fails, add 15% instead
The delay between each correct ingredient or when function fails, is a random 20 - 25 seconds instead of Rat's fixed 25 seconds.
After some long calculation work, it averages out to 2m16s per bag in Cook Off, just on the cooking delay alone.

So the average time taken for Cook Off will always be faster than Rats.