Sunday 26 January 2014

Upcoming, the Improved Silo


BlueByte have unveiled an upcoming building, the improved silo.
For now, it's marked as costing 1,995 gems, and advertised as having '3 times as fast as the output of the regular silo', but currently it's not quite as good as suggested.

It's of course prone to change since it's only on the test server currently, but it's down as having a production of 4 minutes, which is 3 times quicker, but doesn't take into account the walk time of the building. So with 3 times the walk, it winds up being 2 point something silos, depending a bit on just how short a walk you manage to give it.

Hopefully with testing and comments from users they will change it to being still a 12 minute production time like the regular silo, but fill 3 at 3 times the rate (so 15 wheat at level 5 instead of 5). For now, we'll assume it won't change.

Here is a chart showing how much wheat a farm pulls out over 24 hours at different walk distances. It only takes into account whole cycles, so a farm at 60 seconds walk time brings in 550 per day, but the farm is partway through producing another lot.

Here's a chart showing how much wheat an improved silo replaces over 24 hours. Similar to the farms, they may be producing another refill at the time.

Given these, over the course of 24 hours, a silo with the shortest walk time (20 seconds) fills 1660 wheat. 3x farms at 60 seconds walk (3 times the walk), take ~1650 wheat, so equals out. 60 seconds is an overly long time though, so you'll never actually want to run your farms that far away.

Your farms needing to be closer will mean you'll never be able to run a 1 improved silo to 3 farm ratio, but I would like to think that if it does stay like this we'll be able to come up with some nice 3 silo to 8 farm layout, which I'll be looking into if it stays as it is.

2 comments:

  1. If it stays like this you can always make a layout with the improved and normal silo's, maybe it levels out better then.

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  2. I wont substitute all of them but a few, if worth it, I will.

    Good job!

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