Darielle
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You're ignoring the fact that your magic workshop requires over 60 squares to opperate.
Must scout once per 113 hours (4.75 days) for ToS to equal workshop productions for supplies, and that's just at level 1!
Note: A level 1 ToS can't compete with a Magic workshop if it has a PoP spell on it unless you scout daily, but a modestly leveled ToS can give iLava codex:
Culture= 4500
Base 2x2 =4
1125 c/s
Residence:
pop= 3500
base= 15 squares
Road= 1.5
culture bonus= 160
culture = -1449*1.60 (2318.4/1125=2.06)
Footprint= 18.56 (15+1.5+2.06)
Output 188.58 p/s
workshop
Supplies= 143,680
Base 6x4 = 24
road= 2
pop = -5600 (5600/188.58=29.7)
culture bonus= 160
culture= --3100*1.60 (4960/1125=4.41)
Footprint= 60.11 (24+2+29.7+4.41)
Output= = 2,390 supplies/s/d (143680/60.11)
ToS=204,000 per scout
Base= 4x4
Roads= 2
Footprint= 18 (16+2)
Output= 11,3333 supplies per square per scout
Comparrison:
11,333/2,390*24= Must scout once per 113 hours (4.75 days) for ToS to equal workshop productions.
a run for the money, and you must ask whether you are running PoP spells on all workshop all of the time.
Hmmm .... when you put it that way ... I have to think about it. But at this point, I think my scouts are only going to get more and more time consuming, so it will be less and less effective as time passes. If you compare the Tomes to the Prosperity Towers, I think I like prosperity more because that one only gets more effective, not less. But I admit, you make a strong argument for Tomes in the earlier chapters for sure.