Wanted: Opinion of the farmers

if your farming. collective is the most fun to play :). im having quite the time on Ultra.

Agri > Commerce (for terrans) roughly around 3.22 per unit of food (assuming mostly c3s.) At any point, agri > commerce if food is 4 or higher.

The very slight optimization of destroying your population is pretty pointless. ^^; And yes, technically speaking, your overall income would be marginally higher if you maxed the loyalty and kept the population versus killing the population and saving some food. ^^;

for terrans farming is the most profitable. though sometimes you need to wait a bit if you don`t have the money - harsh if you`re BTC-burning, during UW for instance.
but if you play to have cash reserves and have patience enough to steer the maket a bit, and there are some taxers around, then well, farming is the best there is.

oh, sometimes market can support you when you`re at 40-80 planets, but when you suddenly go 300 you find yourself flooded with unwanted food...

so make max loyalty on nice 20k+ c2 populat it and then rest build food...u will make at least 100k a turn from tax + goods as a terran income almost triples

Farming is good!
exspecialy if they grow banana`s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr7SnifpjsY&feature=related lol

on topic,
A, or atleast leave 1 house

i`d never completly destroy the pop. leave at least one just incase, you never know when you`ll win a few hundred planets and cluster

*points at himself i am commercial viral on normal but got 5k loyalty on my c3 and load of population:P bacvk to farmer thingy terran farmer on slow,been on rt b4..does not matter at all when u make load of food used to make about 15-20mills fodd a turn with 400k population did not matter:P man population eats 10th of whatever it is....like for instance 500k populkation only consumes 50k food a turn..= nice profit from tax

true :D

umm killing pop is never a wise idea...who knows what the future holds? -.-

as an agri terran i would not give a dam bout optimizing income that way, just hoard a bit more, you`ll easy support whatever pop you got...

i produce 1 mil and 14 k food a turn i eat 16 k.....so i`d imagine you guys that enjoy research(i tend to stop at around 30-35 on all tb`s) the marginal extra profit you could make by killing pop should not be considered at all.

destroying housing makes ur colony page look ugly! 2 much red!

i`m not a farmer Terran... but don`t destroy housing completely... you better at least leave 1 housing incase you want to change your strategy in the future... better be careful not to destroy the last 1 housing... lol...

all the best... ;)

You will probably make enough extra food for it to be more profitable than the taxes but by killing your population completely you risk wasting future land if there is a giveaway as there has been in the past. It would also stop you from gordoing in the future if you decided so i would leave at least 1 housing if i decided to plunder down.