question on food

[oatMEALcreamePie]

with 750 acres, how much food does 14% produce? I want to know a good number to were i can use less farms.

[Someone]

Depends on what Be you have and if you are artisan or shepherd.

But something like this:

Land*%Farms*70*BE*FoodSci[*1,25 if artisan][+Land*4 i shepherd]+BarrenLands*2

(Not sure what multiplyers affect Barren land thought... Think none?)

I want to know a good number to were i can use less farms.

You want to know some kind of optimised amount of farms? If thats what you wish, I guess ill make you a formula :)

%Farms=(TotalPop*0,25-BarrenLands*2[-Land*4 if shepherd])/(Land*70*BE*FoodSci[*1,25 if artisan])

Note: Just made that formula (it probably exists somewhere already, but well...), so if it contains any faults, feel free to cerrect it.

[_greenie]

well, unless you got an insane pop, 14% is too much =)
10% + FL is fine, if you get some food sci (which is really nw efficient) you can drop it down to 6-7 =D

[Someone]

Crap... i forgot FL :P

But i agree. I've never run more than 10% farms.

[vines]

hahaha that would be so cool he really need that many farms.
I can see how one would need 14% farms. Once ran a dwarf strategy with a huge pop back in the day when elites gave bonus or did something and as I got bigger in land I found that I needed more and more farms. At around 3.5acres I need 14.5% farms. At that point I was making sure my food science was high. He's most likely running a Dwarf artisan with 10% in tool science, maxing on forts and Tgs with some homes.

[Toadi]

14.5% Farms would be needed for someone with around 52PPA with FL on assuming 100%BE. What are you talking about vines?

[vines]

Nah I had over 140% almost 145%BE One age I ran merchant with a 99% military with 100% elites. At the time merchant would add one population for every 6 elites (or something like that). Anyways I was running 50% homes. I meant my population was huge. The funny thing was I had no workers yet I had all my jobs filled lol.

I think oatMEALcreamePie is running a build something like this. This one way he would need lots of farms.
Homes: 21.7%
+68.89% birthrate
Farms: 14%
12,403 bushels (15,504 with fl)
Training Grounds: 24.7%
Off bonus Maxed out
Forts: 24.7%
def bonus Maxed out
Guilds: 10%
Towers: 37%

[VT2]

A 99% military?
Vines, are you a sufferer of Munchausen's syndrome? If not, you seriously need to get yourself to a shrink - these lies of yours are getting worse by the hour.

[vines]

I had some workers but not many. Yeah 99% military a large percent of my military was thieves and wizards.

[oatMEALcreamePie]

no what i mean is 14%sci. what would that 14% bonus give me if i ran 0% farms?

[oatMEALcreamePie]

no this is what im running your kinda off but its cool

1. Homes: 201 (29%)
2. Farms: 69 (10%)
3. Banks: 125 (18%)
4. Training Grounds: 90 (13%)
5. Forts: 90 (13%)
6. Guilds: 118 (17%)

Total Land: 693 Acres (100% built)

[oatMEALcreamePie]

i like the bones frts and tg give my military
i run hi guilds and banks one so my wizzies get more power and get a good draft rate. I'm still getting income i just want to git rid of farms and use science to do the dirty work so i have space. same with banks and alchemy out some my final question is how much percentage of both farm and alchemy would i need to run 0% of both? thanks

[oatMEALcreamePie]

and someone im a noob who is just know figuring the math behind this game thanks for and still dont get it but i shall persevere what does this mean


Land*%Farms*70*BE*FoodSci[*1,25 if artisan][+Land*4 i shepherd]+BarrenLands*2

i really don't understand

%Farms=(TotalPop*0,25-BarrenLands*2[-Land*4 if shepherd])/(Land*70*BE*FoodSci[*1,25 if artisan])


please explain

[vines]

Yeah if you're a dwarf with 30% homes try 11% farms but you have a good build and 17% Guilds is a good number.

[oatMEALcreamePie]

thanks i im de/mystic ive ran atm mostly wpa and tpa is 4 my opa is 40.50 and my dpa is 60 im trying to raise my off and def any suggestions