Talk:Dirt-mound

I conducted an experiment on the speed at which Pikmin dig objects out of a dirt mound (using the Twilight River pellet dirt mound outside the landing site). Basically, what I discovered was that maturity has no impact: all scores were somewhere between 34 and 36 seconds for one Pikmin of any maturity or type (excluding Blue, and including Spicy) digging out the pellets. However, number does have an impact. Listen up, because here's where it gets interesting. It took about 16 seconds for 100 Pikmin to dig up the pellets... but it took about 18 seconds for 20 Pikmin. Also, it took around 10 seconds or so (probably a little more) for the first object to appear. Phineas81707 (talk) 00:41, 5 December 2015 (EST)

Yeah, to me, it felt like numbers had an impact, but not a very great one. It might be logarithmic. That is, while the difference between one Pikmin and two is huge, the difference between 80 and 100 is almost non-existent. Can you get more accurate numbers? Try also with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 15 Pikmin. — {Espyo^T} 09:12, 7 December 2015 (EST)

The full results from my tests should now be on my userpage, taken straight from my note sheet. If a time looks longer than the one preceding it, chalk it up to human error: the basic point of the numbers should remain the same regardless of said deviance. It'll only be off by a second, at max. Also to note: the Spicy spray wore off during the digging.Phineas81707 (talk) 19:05, 7 December 2015 (EST)

Nice! I made a graph out of the times, and it sure looks like a logarithmic function. I'll come up with some function that can be used to get the approximate time, given a number of Pikmin, and I'll put it in the article. Great work! — {Espyo^T} 11:06, 8 December 2015 (EST)

Ok, this is actually a bit more complicated that what I initially thought. I noticed that regardless of the number of Pikmin, and regardless of dirt mound, it takes 10 seconds before the first item pops out. The only thing that the number of Pikmin changes is the interval between how often things come out. Here are my notes:

(This is the dirt mound on the Twilight River; timer starts when the dirt mound begins shaking, ends when the last pellet of the 3 comes out):

• 1 Pikmin
  • 30.154
  • 30.032
  • 30.187
  • avg = 30.124
  • avg - delay = 19.935
• 2 Pikmin
  • 22.804
  • 22.781
  • 22.989
  • avg = 22.858
  • avg - delay = 12.669
• 20 Pikmin
  • 14.848
  • 14.748
  • 13.704
  • avg = 14.433
  • avg - delay = 4.244
• 100 Pikmin
  • 13.089
  • 13.146
  • 13.168
  • avg = 13.134
  • avg - delay = 2.945

(Time between the moment the dirt mound start shaking till the moment the first item pops out):

• 1 Pikmin
  • 10.234
  • 10.151
  • 10.218
  • avg = 10.201
• 100 Pikmin
  • 10.143
  • 10.120
  • 10.271
  • avg = 10.178
• avg = 10.189

— {Espyo^T} 12:00, 13 December 2015 (EST)

Pretty much what I discovered, yeah. I was just timing from moments that had a little bit better of visual cues, which is what padded the time out. Phineas81707 (talk) 19:06, 13 December 2015 (EST)