But unless you put a Magical Manufactoring enchantment on your manufactory, the Mermaid's Paradise is more efficient. And you have to consider the space involved in providing a manufactory with population. Mermaid's Paradise is 4x4 and will stay that size. At Amuni level (my current chapter) it will provide me with a total of 20,910 T1 goods a day, along with giving me 2431 pop and 4930 culture.Looking at it, looks like it produces about as 25% more T1 per tile per hour as a T1 manufactory on 3 hour productions. And once I throw on a relic multiplier to my manufactories its MUCH less productive.
But unless you put a Magical Manufactoring enchantment on your manufactory, the Mermaid's Paradise is more efficient. And you have to consider the space involved in providing a manufactory with population. Mermaid's Paradise is 4x4 and will stay that size. At Amuni level (my current chapter) it will provide me with a total of 20,910 T1 goods a day, along with giving me 2431 pop and 4930 culture.
By comparison, a level 27 marble manufactory is 5x4. If I make 4 three hour runs and a 9 hour run a day I am going to get about 17,000 goods. The manufactory requires 6529 population to run. A level 31 residence is 4x4 and gives 3400 pop. Therefore, a single L27 marble manufactory is going to take nearly the entire population of 2 of my residences. When you figure in the size of the manufactory and the size of the residences needed to provide the population, it is costing me just over 50 spaces to run a single L27 manufactory. I am going to try as hard as I can to get enough Mermaid artifacts in the Spire over the coming weeks to evolve a Mermaid Paradise so I can replace 1 of my current manufactories with it.
Are you sure you are looking at the figures for Mermaid's Paradise correctly? I am honestly not sure how you are arriving at the figure of 1/5 as many goods per tile per day. A stage 10 Amuni level Mermaid's Paradise is going to give me 7380 marble, 6970 steel, and 6560 planks a day. Total production of 20,910 tier 1 goods a day.@Henroo. The goods production is insufficient for the space gobbled up, even including the space for the supporting population and culture because with a factor of 7 relic bonus it is making 1/5th as many goods per tile per day as a manufactory.
I am going to try as hard as I can to get enough Mermaid artifacts in the Spire over the coming weeks to evolve a Mermaid Paradise so I can replace 1 of my current manufactories with it.