To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade: The Question of Magical Goods

[DeletedUser627]

A well-respected Beta player - Benroq - made the following comparison:

"I have just looked on the wiki for my factories of gemme.
At present I have 4 level factories 15 which allow me to produce according to the wiki 4*571=2284/day.
To run these factories I need of:
4*1708=6832 population
4*509=2036 culture
4*22 = 88 squares

Let us imagine that I remove a factory, I have thus 3 there that I am going to put in the level 19 what will allow me a production of 3*775=2325 / day what will give me a production equivalent me to have before.

To run these 3 factories I shall need of:
-3*3328 = 9984 population
-3*886 = 2658 culture
-3*22 = 66 squares

In conclusion I shall keep the same production, I am going to gain 22 available squares ( 20 for the building and 2 for the road) on the other hand I am going to have to use 9984-6832=3152 population additional and 2658-2036=622 additional culture.
I am going to get back 1708 inhabitants and 509 culture of my destroyed building, finelly I will miss him thus 1444 inhabitants and 113 culture.

I am thus going to have to put 2 residences in more to have my missing inhabitants 2*850=1700 inhabitants.
These residences are going to take me 12 squares each + 3 squares for the road thus 27 squares And 764 additional culture.

Conclusion:

I am going to keep the same production but I am going to lose 5 squares and 764 culture.
I thus wanted to know what is the interest for me to cross(spend) my factories at the level 19?"
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In other words: it will require 5 more squares and 764 more culture to produce the same number of goods. But the score will be higher: 1700 working pop and 764 required culture.

 

[DeletedUser43]

Don't forget to add in the additional score you could get from those 5 spaces. The seen and unseen consequences. You know much better than I what you could have put there.

So the question is....do we put this orc ugliness in our cities or skip it?

 

[DeletedUser]

Now that is a very interesting thing to think about. Thank you for sharing.

 

[DeletedUser627]

Don't forget to add in the additional score you could get from those 5 spaces.

Si. Plus the 764 culture - it will either be subtracted from our available, or we'll have to use 5-7 spaces to produce it.

The other problem with the large increase in culture requirement is that it undermines our ability to get to the 125% culture bonus. Since they're still requiring the Magic Academy...and they won't let us utilize the Culture Spells unless we have the 125% Bonus level...then there's a signifiant cost to keeping our culture down at 100%. I don't know that the cost is high enough to necessitate trying to build up to 125, but it's something to keep in mind.

 

[DeletedUser43]

That is one reason I won't build that feckless thing. Plus, I am a full 10 expansions behind just to get to where you all are starting the orc chapter. In a week or so I will be 20 expansions behind. That is literally years of scouting. The last thing I need is to waste a whole expansion with a building that does me more harm than good.