Kronos
2008-02-13 |  | Wanted: Opinion of the farmers |  |
What`s more profitable as a Terran Farmer?
A.) Leave the population on the colony and collect whatever taxes they give.
or
B.) Once you have your Ag infrastructure in place, destroy the housing so that there`s no people to eat the food you`re producing. |
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StormofBladeZ
99+ day(s) ago | if your farming. collective is the most fun to play :). im having quite the time on Ultra. |
Deiloche
99+ day(s) ago | 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. ^^; |
Anfit
99+ day(s) ago | 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... |
Tauren
99+ day(s) ago | 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 |
OhMyGod
99+ day(s) ago | 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 |
lothor
99+ day(s) ago | 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 |
Tauren
99+ day(s) ago | *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 |
FieryGallacticos
99+ day(s) ago | true :D
umm killing pop is never a wise idea...who knows what the future holds? -.- |
Loof
99+ day(s) ago | 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. |
Firvulag
99+ day(s) ago | destroying housing makes ur colony page look ugly! 2 much red! |
VALJA
99+ day(s) ago | 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... ;) |
AGM94
99+ day(s) ago | 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. |
