Crimbo Credits per Candy

Bale

Minion
It's not really much of a script, but here's a script that compares prices of candies per crimbo credit. Output looks like this:

15000 meat per cred for : cane-mail shirt (1500000 meat for 100 credits)
1960 meat per cred for : radio button candy (490000 meat for 250 credits)
1599 meat per cred for : lump of Saccharine Maple sap (399970 meat for 250 credits)
966 meat per cred for : honey stick (9666 meat for 10 credits)
800 meat per cred for : Angry Farmer's Wife Candy (20000 meat for 25 credits)
750 meat per cred for : lavender candy heart (750 meat for 1 credits)
724 meat per cred for : green candy heart (724 meat for 1 credits)
700 meat per cred for : giant candy cane (70000 meat for 100 credits)
699 meat per cred for : fudge spork (34999 meat for 50 credits)
520 meat per cred for : candy cane candygram (52000 meat for 100 credits)
490 meat per cred for : sugar-coated pine cone (4900 meat for 10 credits)
489 meat per cred for : cotton candy plug (4899 meat for 10 credits)
450 meat per cred for : pink candy heart (450 meat for 1 credits)
425 meat per cred for : Comet Pop (425 meat for 1 credits)
400 meat per cred for : delicious comfit? (10000 meat for 25 credits)
400 meat per cred for : peppermint crook (40000 meat for 100 credits)
380 meat per cred for : giant green gummi ingot (9500 meat for 25 credits)
356 meat per cred for : giant green gummi bear (8900 meat for 25 credits)
350 meat per cred for : cotton candy pillow (3500 meat for 10 credits)
339 meat per cred for : cotton candy smidgen (3399 meat for 10 credits)
319 meat per cred for : chocolate cigar (79750 meat for 250 credits)
315 meat per cred for : giant red gummi bear (7890 meat for 25 credits)
315 meat per cred for : giant yellow gummi bear (7890 meat for 25 credits)
300 meat per cred for : marzipan skull (300 meat for 1 credits)
300 meat per cred for : candied kobold (3000 meat for 10 credits)
300 meat per cred for : giant red gummi ingot (7500 meat for 25 credits)
300 meat per cred for : licorice boa (7500 meat for 25 credits)
300 meat per cred for : peppermint patty (30000 meat for 100 credits)
295 meat per cred for : white candy heart (295 meat for 1 credits)
289 meat per cred for : cotton candy cone (2899 meat for 10 credits)
287 meat per cred for : giant yellow gummi ingot (7195 meat for 25 credits)
280 meat per cred for : fudge bunny (140000 meat for 500 credits)
279 meat per cred for : cotton candy bale (2799 meat for 10 credits)
276 meat per cred for : dubious peppermint (6900 meat for 25 credits)
250 meat per cred for : orange candy heart (250 meat for 1 credits)
249 meat per cred for : Polka Pop (2495 meat for 10 credits)
239 meat per cred for : cotton candy skoshe (2390 meat for 10 credits)
239 meat per cred for : Elvish delight (2395 meat for 10 credits)
235 meat per cred for : jawbruiser (58999 meat for 250 credits)
220 meat per cred for : Comet Drop (5500 meat for 25 credits)
220 meat per cred for : peppermint twist (11000 meat for 50 credits)
200 meat per cred for : yellow candy heart (200 meat for 1 credits)
200 meat per cred for : pack of chewing gum (1000 meat for 5 credits)
199 meat per cred for : lime-and-chile-flavored chewing gum (199 meat for 1 credits)
199 meat per cred for : pickle-flavored chewing gum (199 meat for 1 credits)
199 meat per cred for : green gummi ingot (1999 meat for 10 credits)
199 meat per cred for : red gummi ingot (1999 meat for 10 credits)
199 meat per cred for : yellow gummi ingot (1999 meat for 10 credits)
190 meat per cred for : tamarind-flavored chewing gum (190 meat for 1 credits)
190 meat per cred for : pile of candy (1900 meat for 10 credits)
180 meat per cred for : peppermint sprout (9000 meat for 50 credits)
179 meat per cred for : chocolate filthy lucre (1795 meat for 10 credits)
179 meat per cred for : ribbon candy (4475 meat for 25 credits)
178 meat per cred for : abandoned candy (8900 meat for 50 credits)
172 meat per cred for : CRIMBCOIDS mints (17225 meat for 100 credits)
160 meat per cred for : peppermint parasol (16000 meat for 100 credits)
151 meat per cred for : yam candy (37900 meat for 250 credits)
145 meat per cred for : candy kneecapping stick (14500 meat for 100 credits)
142 meat per cred for : Lobos Mints (14200 meat for 100 credits)
140 meat per cred for : holly-flavored Hob-O (3500 meat for 25 credits)
132 meat per cred for : chocolate saucepan (3300 meat for 25 credits)
132 meat per cred for : chocolate stolen accordion (3300 meat for 25 credits)
132 meat per cred for : fancy but probably evil chocolate (33000 meat for 250 credits)
130 meat per cred for : green drunki-bear (6500 meat for 50 credits)
130 meat per cred for : red drunki-bear (6500 meat for 50 credits)
128 meat per cred for : chocolate disco ball (3200 meat for 25 credits)
128 meat per cred for : chocolate pasta spoon (3200 meat for 25 credits)
128 meat per cred for : chocolate turtle totem (3200 meat for 25 credits)
124 meat per cred for : vitachoconutriment capsule (31000 meat for 250 credits)
120 meat per cred for : cotton candy pinch (600 meat for 5 credits)
120 meat per cred for : Tasty Fun Good rice candy (600 meat for 5 credits)
120 meat per cred for : chocolate seal-clubbing club (3000 meat for 25 credits)
120 meat per cred for : yellow drunki-bear (6000 meat for 50 credits)
119 meat per cred for : piece of after eight (2988 meat for 25 credits)
115 meat per cred for : garbage-juice-flavored Hob-O (2890 meat for 25 credits)
114 meat per cred for : frostbite-flavored Hob-O (2850 meat for 25 credits)
110 meat per cred for : Steal This Candy (1100 meat for 10 credits)
102 meat per cred for : gummi ammonite (102000 meat for 1000 credits)
101 meat per cred for : gummi belemnite (101700 meat for 1000 credits)
100 meat per cred for : jabañero-flavored chewing gum (100 meat for 1 credits)
100 meat per cred for : pixellated candy heart (1000 meat for 10 credits)
100 meat per cred for : chocolate-covered caviar (2500 meat for 25 credits)
100 meat per cred for : sterno-flavored Hob-O (2500 meat for 25 credits)
100 meat per cred for : irradiated candy cane (5000 meat for 50 credits)
100 meat per cred for : gummi trilobite (100000 meat for 1000 credits)
99 meat per cred for : honey-dipped locust (499 meat for 5 credits)
99 meat per cred for : elderly jawbreaker (2475 meat for 25 credits)
99 meat per cred for : Now and Earlier (2495 meat for 25 credits)
96 meat per cred for : Gummi-DNA (2400 meat for 25 credits)
95 meat per cred for : Everlasting Deckswabber (2389 meat for 25 credits)
94 meat per cred for : fancy chocolate (23500 meat for 250 credits)
94 meat per cred for : fancy chocolate car (23500 meat for 250 credits)
90 meat per cred for : brown sugar cane (450 meat for 5 credits)
90 meat per cred for : Bit O' Ectoplasm (900 meat for 10 credits)
89 meat per cred for : Gummi-Gnauga (895 meat for 10 credits)
88 meat per cred for : bananagate (8800 meat for 100 credits)
88 meat per cred for : kumquartz (8800 meat for 100 credits)
84 meat per cred for : children of the candy corn (2100 meat for 25 credits)
83 meat per cred for : candy knuckles (8395 meat for 100 credits)
80 meat per cred for : candy cane (400 meat for 5 credits)
80 meat per cred for : candy skeleton (2000 meat for 25 credits)
80 meat per cred for : Good 'n' Slimy (2000 meat for 25 credits)
80 meat per cred for : Wax Flask (2000 meat for 25 credits)
80 meat per cred for : tourmalime tourniquet (20000 meat for 250 credits)
79 meat per cred for : Sugar Cog (795 meat for 10 credits)
79 meat per cred for : fry-oil-flavored Hob-O (1990 meat for 25 credits)
79 meat per cred for : nanite-infested candy cane (1995 meat for 25 credits)
79 meat per cred for : pearidot (7999 meat for 100 credits)
79 meat per cred for : strawberyl (7999 meat for 100 credits)
79 meat per cred for : tourmalime (7900 meat for 100 credits)
76 meat per cred for : Yummy Tummy bean (384 meat for 5 credits)
73 meat per cred for : Blood 'n' Plenty (7300 meat for 100 credits)
72 meat per cred for : Necbro wafers (1800 meat for 25 credits)
72 meat per cred for : orange and black Crimboween candy (1800 meat for 25 credits)
70 meat per cred for : alphabet gum (700 meat for 10 credits)
70 meat per cred for : candy stake (3500 meat for 50 credits)
70 meat per cred for : banana supersucker (14000 meat for 200 credits)
70 meat per cred for : kumquat supersucker (14000 meat for 200 credits)
70 meat per cred for : lime supersucker (14000 meat for 200 credits)
70 meat per cred for : pear supersucker (14000 meat for 200 credits)
70 meat per cred for : strawberry supersucker (14000 meat for 200 credits)
70 meat per cred for : pair of pearidot earrings (17500 meat for 250 credits)
69 meat per cred for : Rattlin' Chains (6969 meat for 100 credits)
68 meat per cred for : Gummy Brains (6800 meat for 100 credits)
68 meat per cred for : kumquartz ring (17000 meat for 250 credits)
67 meat per cred for : sugar sheet (1695 meat for 25 credits)
66 meat per cred for : spooky sap (3300 meat for 50 credits)
66 meat per cred for : Sweet Sword (6600 meat for 100 credits)
64 meat per cred for : candy brain (645 meat for 10 credits)
64 meat per cred for : stick of "gum" (1600 meat for 25 credits)
64 meat per cred for : licorice garrote (6450 meat for 100 credits)
64 meat per cred for : bananarama bangle (16000 meat for 250 credits)
64 meat per cred for : strawberyl necklace (16000 meat for 250 credits)
60 meat per cred for : bazookafish bubble gum (300 meat for 5 credits)
60 meat per cred for : crazy little Turkish delight (300 meat for 5 credits)
60 meat per cred for : sugar shard (600 meat for 10 credits)
60 meat per cred for : Nuclear Blastball (1520 meat for 25 credits)
59 meat per cred for : double-ice gum (1493 meat for 25 credits)
59 meat per cred for : breath mint (2999 meat for 50 credits)
57 meat per cred for : Cold Hots candy (285 meat for 5 credits)
55 meat per cred for : Crimbo fudge (1395 meat for 25 credits)
54 meat per cred for : Angry Farmer candy (274 meat for 5 credits)
54 meat per cred for : Senior Mints (270 meat for 5 credits)
52 meat per cred for : licorice root (1300 meat for 25 credits)
50 meat per cred for : Daffy Taffy (250 meat for 5 credits)
50 meat per cred for : Rock Pops (250 meat for 5 credits)
50 meat per cred for : BitterSweetTarts (500 meat for 10 credits)
49 meat per cred for : Mr. Mediocrebar (249 meat for 5 credits)
48 meat per cred for : Wint-O-Fresh mint (244 meat for 5 credits)
48 meat per cred for : Crimbo candied pecan (1200 meat for 25 credits)
47 meat per cred for : white chocolate chips (235 meat for 5 credits)
42 meat per cred for : Crimbo peppermint bark (1050 meat for 25 credits)
25 meat per cred for : Piddles (250 meat for 10 credits)

The best value is at the bottom since that is what you can see without needing to scroll.
 

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Bale

Minion
I know it has been less than an hour, but the script was updated with more candy and better output.
 

Winterbay

Active member
In the interest of diversity, this little script does basically the same thing, but in a different way :)
 

palpitations

New member
It's not really much of a script, but here's a script that compares prices of candies per crimbo credit.

I'm getting this on Ubuntu 11.04:

Code:
Bad item value: "jaba�ero-flavored chewing gum" (CandyCredits.ash, line 8)

Opening and resaving with UTF-8 encoding is enough to fix it.
 
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lostcalpolydude

Developer
Staff member
I had to change jabañero to jabañero for the script to run. Otherwise it looks good.

Edit: Basically the same issue palpitations posted, except the fix I posted is how it's supposed to be done with scripts.
 

Bale

Minion
Fixed stupid copy/paste error. :(

Anyone who didn't fix it themselves can download the new version. I did it with ñ like lostcalpolydude did.
 

Winterbay

Active member
Fixed stupid copy/paste error. :(

Anyone who didn't fix it themselves can download the new version. I did it with ñ like lostcalpolydude did.

Heh, I did have that problem as well but it was more that the gum disappeared since it wasn't loaded correctly from the datafile so at least it didn't do anything stupid :)
 

Bale

Minion
Thanks to Crimbo support in the latest KoLmafia r10147, the script is massively improved.

It now supports every candy that KoLmafia knows about and 5 others for which I discovered that KoLmafia lacks data. That should be every redeemable candy in the game.
 
does this cache the results somehow? i looked at the script and didn't see anything, but when i run this script multiple times it's returning the same results, even while the prices of items in the mall have shifted. i know Crimbo is almost over, so I don't expect anyone to work on it, just wondering if i'm missing something.
 

Theraze

Active member
Unless you buy them, in which case it recalculates. But yeah... all designed to make mallbots less effective. :)
 
Makes sense, i was just trying to use this to buy candy for credits throughout the day as prices fluctuate, but looks like I can't since it basically locks prices from the first attempt. Oh well!
 

Bale

Minion
Yep. I briefly thought about upgrading this to buy and trade in candies, thereby automatically updating its prices just like my Alice's Army credit script buys and trades in cards. (That script has a clever bit of code to protect against unexpected price fluctuations.) Didn't get around to it though and by now it's kinda a moot point. I'm not sure that enough people really cared about it to make it worthwhile.
 
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