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The Nerg Tribe use the tall grass for camouflage and the sturdy trees as defensive positions making their village hard to infiltrate. Use of a Tactical trap is highly recommended when hunting for the Nerg.

The Nerg Plains are the Tactical area of the Tribal Isles, it offers a good mix of points and gold, and is generally considered the easiest of the three locations to hunt in.

In this article we present you with some of the results from our survey, as well as some theories and strategies to help you hunt in this location.

Cheese & Mice

Here is a breakdown of the base attraction rates and mouse populations seen with various cheese.

	Gouda	Gumbo	Super Brie
Alnilam	17.51%		16.80%
Beast Tamer	17.48%		17.79%
Black Widow	0.14%	0.11%	0.22%
Caretaker	8.68%		8.30%
Conjurer	16.89%		17.12%
Conqueror	4.24%		4.40%
Defender		60.99%
Finder	17.69%		18.21%
Narrator	8.79%		8.83%
Nerg Chieftain		7.86%
Pathfinder	8.57%		8.32%
Slayer		31.03%
Hunts Submitted	58,434	22,144	5,927
Base Attraction Rate	79.47%	98.93%	98.92%

Gumbo is the only cheese to use when going after the “Big Three” in Nerg, but we can see from the populations of the other mice that there doesn’t seem to be a preference for any of the other cheese, as such, your only choice for cheese will be balancing cost with attraction rates.

Gouda has a base attraction rate of about 80% in the Nerg Plains, reasonable gold rewards make it quite profitable in the long run.

Super Brie boasts an impressive 99% attraction rate, allowing hunters to focus on the much needed power and luck of their trap without suffering any significant drawbacks.

General Strategies

All of the mice in the Nerg Plains are Tactical mice, most Tactical traps will give good results, but high luck traps generally appear to have a better performance.

Physical and Hydro Weapons types are completely ineffective against most of the mice, and are only of normal effectiveness against the Black Widow, Narrator, Pathfinder and Caretaker mice, so are not recommended.

Tactical Weapon types are very effective against all of the mice, and are highly recommended.

Arcane and Shadow Weapon types are completely ineffective against most of the mice, and are only of normal effectiveness against the Black Widow, so are not recommended.

Draconic and Forgotten Weapon types are completely ineffective against all of the mice.

Normal Setup Options

We do not currently have enough hunts received to include these setups, please continue to submit to the survey so we can add them at a later date.

Limited Edition Setup Options

All cheese costs have been removed from these figures, and only show earnings after the cheese has been purchased for ease of comparison.

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Savoury Vegetables per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
2010 Blastoff Trap	Candy Cane	No	80.20%	80.99%	2,463.74	1,450.27	0.46	1,367	1,535
2010 Blastoff Trap	Candy Cane	Yes	78.08%	90.66%	2,912.20	1,705.53	0.53	7,318	8,435
2010 Blastoff Trap	Gingerbread	Yes	79.87%	86.54%	2,713.55	1,605.63	0.49	1,981	2,325
2010 Blastoff Trap	Magma	No	81.65%	87.52%	2,843.09	1,665.63	0.51	4,633	4,572
2010 Blastoff Trap	Magma	Yes	80.53%	92.24%	3,060.78	1,793.98	0.57	14,771	14,630
Giant Speaker	Candy Cane	Yes	80.12%	88.29%	2,723.32	1,604.24	0.48	1,004	1,172
Giant Speaker	Magma	No	82.34%	82.83%	2,708.54	1,592.20	0.50	1,476	1,450
Giant Speaker	Magma	Yes	81.49%	90.68%	2,990.98	1,757.79	0.56	3,006	2,961
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap	Magma	Yes	80.72%	86.64%	2,754.08	1,616.48	0.49	5,785	5,685
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap	Polar	Yes	79.01%	70.98%	2,197.11	1,293.50	0.36	913	1,086
Snow Barrage	Magma	Yes	85.31%	94.86%	3,354.75	1,962.80	0.65	1,761	1,892

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Savoury Vegetables per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
2010 Blastoff Trap	Magma	Yes	99.05%	92.47%	3,836.97	2,256.60	0.71	2,320	2,320
Giant Speaker	Magma	Yes	99.06%	90.46%	3,602.15	2,128.33	0.66	1,598	1,598

Weapon	Base	Shield?	Attraction Rate	Catch Rate	Points per Hunt	Gold per Hunt	Yellow Pepper Seeds per Hunt	Cheese Used	Sample Size (Hunts)
2010 Blastoff Trap	Candy Cane	Yes	98.21%	56.24%	5,161.40	2,361.86	0.63	1,102	1,117
2010 Blastoff Trap	Magma	No	99.05%	47.81%	4,305.01	1,978.92	0.54	1,153	1,153
2010 Blastoff Trap	Magma	Yes	99.09%	61.29%	5,774.88	2,631.44	0.70	11,959	11,959
Giant Speaker	Magma	Yes	99.27%	56.20%	5,184.47	2,356.80	0.62	1,649	1,649
Horrific Venus Mouse Trap	Magma	Yes	98.88%	54.54%	4,993.64	2,321.12	0.60	3,121	3,121

Goals

Savoury Vegetables are required to make Gumbo Cheese, which is used to attract the Grandfather Mouse in Cape Clawed, and three mice in Nerg Plains, the Nerg Chieftain Mouse, Slayer Mouse and Defender Mouse.

Savoury Vegetables are dropped as loot by the Alnilam Mouse, Beast Tamer Mouse (upto 2), Caretaker Mouse, Conjurer Mouse, Conqueror Mouse, Finder Mouse (upto 3), Narrator Mouse and Pathfinder Mouse, each mouse only drops up to 1 Savoury Vegetable with the two exceptions mentioned above.

The weaker the mouse is, the less likely they are to drop Savoury Vegetables, with the Conqueror Mouse dropping 1 Savoury Vegetables in almost all cases.

Yellow Pepper Seeds are required to make a number of the Havarti Cheese used in the Jungle of Dread and Dracano, they are only dropped by the three mice in Nerg Plains that can only be attracted with Gumbo Cheese.

Yellow Pepper Seeds are dropped as loot by the Nerg Chieftain Mouse (upto 3), Slayer Mouse (upto 2) and Defender Mouse (upto 1).

As with Savoury Vegetables, the weakest mouse (the Defender) is the least likely to drop Yellow Pepper Seeds, while the Nerg Chieftain almost always drops at least 1 Yellow Pepper Seed.

High power and high luck Tactical traps are highly recommended when hunting these three mice.

The Nerg Chieftain Mouse drops the Ancient Ripped Blueprint Piece, which is used for crafting the Ancient Box Trap.

The Nerg Chieftain Mouse is only attracted to Gumbo Cheese, is not commonly encountered and is the most powerful mouse in the location, fortunately it will drop the Blueprints in most cases (unless you already have them in your inventory), so it is an unlucky hunter who has to catch more than two before receiving this loot.

High power and high luck Tactical traps are highly recommended.

We all know that Derr Dunes is a good place to earn gold, but Nerg not only offers good gold returns, but much better points as well, so lets take a quick look at the above results and see how it compares (special thanks to Matthew Limber for convincing me to look into this).

At the time of writing (these figures are based on those at 05-Feb-10), the cost of Super Brie is about 1,700 gold per piece, Gouda is priced at 600 gold per piece and Brie at 200 gold per piece. Numbers above in the Setup Options section have been given without these prices included, to establish gold returns from using certain cheese, these have been factored in.

For this, we’re going to look at good setups for each location, in the case of Derr Dunes, this is the Chrome DrillBot, for the Nerg Plains, this is the 2010 Blastoff Trap, both setups will be using the Magma Base, a Golden Shield and Gouda cheese.

The Chrome DrillBot is currently earning about 1,850 gold per hunt before cheese cost and about 1,100 gold per hunt after removing the cost of the Gouda.
The 2010 Blastoff Trap is currently earning about 1,775 gold per hunt before cheese cost and about 1,150 gold per hunt after removing the cost of the Gouda.

So that actually means that while you’re getting a better gold income from Derr, you’re actually making more profit from your Gouda in Nerg, so how does that happen?

It’s because the mice in Derr are stealing more additional pieces of the cheese than their counterparts in Nerg, which is increasing the number of Gouda you need to do the same number of hunts in Derr.

Because of this, the same doesn’t hold true for Super Brie, it’s still more efficient to use that in Derr because mice can’t steal additional pieces of Super Brie.

It’s worth remembering though, that as we get more results in these figures will change slightly, and at a difference of only about 50 gold per hunt currently you may find that the two locations may switch as to which offers the best profit in the future, but it’s well worth pointing out that while the gold profit is very similar, the points available in Nerg are much better.

The Gumbo Cycle is hunting for Savoury Vegetables, then using those vegetables to craft Gumbo Cheese and hunting with that cheese as Gumbo offers higher points and gold returns than any other cheese in the Nerg Plains, and as such, is the best way to earn gold.

For this we’re going to look at the same setups as we used above in the earning gold comparison.

Gumbo (20 pieces), the results above show that in 20 hunts we can expect to earn about 31,000 gold after taking off the cost of crafting Gumbo (with Super Brie prices at 1,700), we can also expect to collect about 14 Yellow Seeds

Gumbo (15 pieces), the results above show that in 15 hunts we can expect to earn about 27,000 gold after taking off the cost of crafting Gumbo, we can also expect to collect about 10.5 Yellow Seeds

Gouda, the results above show that it will take about 53 hunts to collect 30 Savoury Vegetables, and we can expect to earn about 62,000 gold after taking off the cost of Gouda at 600 gold per piece.

If we add in the Gumbo (20 pieces), we get a total profit of about 93,000 gold over 73 hunts, about 1,275 gold per hunt and 0.19 Yellow Seeds per hunt.

If we add in the Gumbo (15 pieces), we get a total profit of about 88,500 gold over 68 hunts, about 1,300 gold per hunt and 0.15 Yellow Seeds per hunt.

Comparing this to the results we have from the Crunchy Cycle in Derr we can see that using Gouda would earn about 1,375 gold per hunt and about 0.11 Red Seeds per hunt.

Either of these methods for crafting results in less gold per hunt than in Derr Dunes, but both of them result in more seeds, which may be useful for earning gold later in the Jungle of Dread.

There are two ways to craft Gumbo, one produces 15 pieces, and the other requires 5 Magic Essence to craft 20 pieces, so which is better for earning gold?

Again this is something that relies on the price of Super Brie, and there are several ways to consider this.

If we look at gold returns per cheese, you can see that it’s worth buying Super Brie at any price lower than the return you make from Gumbo, as you will still make a profit.

If we look at gold returns per hunt, then the 15 piece recipe earns more per hunt if the price of Super Brie is over about 850 gold per piece.

Thank you to all who have contributed so far and will do so in the future.

This article includes survey results from 10-Jan-10 to 07-Feb-10.

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