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Edited by Caraweezey:
8/9/2014 12:04:35 AM
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Math for Guardians update 3
The current population on Earth right now is estimated to 7 billion people. Ratio of civilian to military in (us) for example is about 5 military per 1000 civilians. If the Fallen, Hive, Vex, and Canbal all have a Earth size population, share a similar warrior to civilian ratio as the US. Then that would mean each enemy race would have 7million fighters for a total combined force of 28 million. Let's say they deployed 70% of their total force to destroy humanity in a surprise attack and left 30% to defend their home base the total attacking enemy force would be around 19.6million. There were a total of 4.6 million guardians in the BETA (not counting 6.5mil guardians because one player cannot control multiple guardians at one time) All guardians won't be present to defend the tower/last safe city. If the guardians were divided equally among 24 time zones and we take into account 8hr sleep and 8hr other activities for a total of 16hr time zones worth of guardians out of pocket. That would mean only 1.5 million guardians can possibly be present to defend this surprise attack. Each guardians quota will be 13 enemy combatants. Easy but there are spider tanks and bosses as well. On a rough estimate let's say for every 300 enemy troops we have 1boss and 1 tank type that would mean we have to deal with 130,666 combined force of tanks and bosses. Your chances of encountering a boss 8%. This is a cake walk but numbers lie.....Now if they have no such thing as a civilian population and decided to use their entire population to attack all 28 billion of them. We still only have the 1.5 million guardians...that would mean each guardians would have to deal with 18,666 enemy warriors divided into waves within enemy ranks would include 124 bosses and tanks that EACH individual guardians have to fight off to protect humanity...in the course of maybe around 3 hours....then we are screwed.
Edit:1) number of guardians have been adjusted for accuracy
Edit:2) there are some very good responses to this forum that encourages critical thinking in many aspects of Destiny. If you have created a new forum discussing these types of topics please let me know.
Edit:3)To clarify this is waves after waves pounding the tower that EACH guardian (1) has to handle in one session: probably some where around 2 hours or 3
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4 RepliesYou forgot that if the tower is attacked The Speaker would call every single guardian to defend the tower, and the guardians are the elite fighting force. I'm sure there are police in the city, as well as a basic military with would be used to support the guardians. That would increase the friendly numbers from 1.5 million to maybe 5 million if civilians don't fight too. I would assume that most would help. Increasing our numbers to roughly 7 million. Using your math that would leave 4,000 hostiles per 1 friendly. Assuming that a civilian could only kill two dregs or their equivalent before dying that would change the numbers to 27,998,000,000 H to 5,000,000 F. Now a cop would be able to eliminate maybe 10 dregs, and a Vandal or the equivalents. 400,000 'cops/soldiers' dead 4,400,000 hostiles down. Now we're left with 27,993,600,000 H to 4,600,000 Guardians. Roughly. Now using what your logic the 1.5 million guardians would face the blunt force of the enemy attack. Personally I was able to kill about 5,000 enemies, I would assume that a well trained Guardian, maybe a vanguard could take out 7,500 if properly equipped. That would mean we could kill 11.25 billion agents of darkness. Leaving them with 16.743 billion troops to fight off our incoming 3.1 million guardians. At this point each guardian would only need to kill 5,401 Darkspawns to win the battle. One would have to kill 5,402. It would be a very close battle, that would decimate everyone, but I'm sure we'll come out on top after hours, maybe days of battle. If all guardians become vanguards though we would decimate the darkness.
