Oh, well that makes perfect sense. I do predictive computations for the stats based on your actual time. You're thinking in serpents, but not in statistics. Note that you were online for under an hour, so when you interpolate that point of data, you aren't averaging 3 serpents, but 3.3 serpents/hr. The PER HOUR is important.

Same goes for the MIBs, and everything else. So it makes more sense than you're thinking. It's trying to predict what your hourly values are. You'll notice I use the same method of computation in the CLAw for gold/hr. Didn't you notice that in 15 minutes, the script has a pretty good idea about how much gold/hr you're making? It's magic.