I know I've seen threads about this, but I couldn't find them with my searches...
I was under the impression that if you made for example 0.8 wizards/tick, that the first tick of the game you would not produce a wizard, but that you would be guaranteed one the next tick, with 0.6 of a wizard 'on deck' for the next tick after that. With 0.6 on deck, you would make a wizard the next tick again, and have 0.4 'on deck' for the next tick... etc.
But with 0.8 Wizards/Tick I produced one the first tick of the game. So now I have to believe a decimal Wizard/tick correlates to a %chance of producing that 1 Wizard. At 0.8 you would have 80% chance to produce 1 Wizard each tick. At 1.6 you would produce 1 Wizard, and have a 60% chance to produce another?
Side note: I also thought BR is supposed to be ~2.05% ... I popped out 93 (3.1%) new peasants first tick also, with no BR perks from my Race/Personality setup and no spells up. Is this something that is different in protection, or just been awhile since BR info is updated perhaps?