I don't have the hobby horse either, but I do have a stack of Magical Manufacturing spells and a level 30 Elvenar Trade Centers. I've currently got 7 level 34 Steel Manus and with MM spells cast I get 25920 steel every 3 hrs and a once a day (overnight) amount of 48.000. One badge costs 118k.
I would do the Maths but it's getting late and I wouldn't want to turn into a pumpkin. Maybe
@Sir Derf might count for you
It all depends how you have built your city, where you're at in game and many other factors. I hope this helps a little.
I think we would all appreciate a bit of decency of the part of Inno, as in notifying players of some Testing about to happen.
What am I, a joke to you? That you can type a few Arabic numerals and expect that I will be compelled to perform for your amusement...
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OK.
@m4rt1n provided the key number. The 80% improvement for 3 hour is 1080. 1,080 out of his 28,379 inclusive total is 3.81%, or 1,080 added to his 27,299 exclusive total is a 3.96% improvement, For you, 1,080 added to your 25,920 is 4.17%. Let's just call it a 4% improvement, or about 1:25.
How meaningful is this? The quick analysis is that you get your badges 4% faster/earlier, but this isn't really important. There is no short-term deadlines that getting badges faster will circumvent. The better analysis is that for every 25 badges you earn, the Ad bonus will accumulate to a free 26th badge. For collections under 25 total badges, the Ad bonus fraction might push you up by one, or it might not, but at most, you'll only get a single extra badge you wouldn't have without it.
Badge costs 118k. 25 badges costs 2.95M. So, that's you goal.
By your numbers, a perfect 24 hours is 48k + 5*25,920 = 81,600. The FA is what, initial pickup (9 hour) + 6 days, + 6 hours, so 48k + (6*81,600) + (2*25,920) = 589,440 per Manu. The goal of 2.95M is just a hair over 5 Manus of perfect collection (5.00475). For you, basically, the Ad bonus would give you 1 free badge for every 5 perfect Manus. Unless you're really sloppy with your collection, you should be very easily getting a 1st, and possibly a fractionally boosted 2nd, Ad bonus badge.
