[JAS0643]

Originally Posted by drop73

I have just completed my research on whether or not it is advantageous to create the products of these new facilities and I must conclude that all but one of the additions is a complete waste of money for players. Unless you are trying to increase your level points there is no reason to waste your money creating these new foods, but there are more effective ways to increase your level points without wasting so much money. I am of course assuming that a player harvests their crops with help on each crop. I will explain below.

If a player could sell a unit of Wheat at market for $136ea., and it costs 10 units of Wheat to produce 1 unit of Flour, then the cost to produce one unit of Flour is $1360. Wheat unit per Flour unit, the loss to the player would be -$760 per unit on what the player could potentially produce.

10 fields of wheat produce 5 units of flour that sell for 600 coins each. it takes 2 fields of wheat for every unit of flour. The wheat cost you 200 coins for 2 fields that is 80 coins for seeds and 20 coins to plow per field (this can be less if you hire to plow). If you hire harvest the wheat you make a profit of 116 per field. If you make flour out of the wheat you will now make 200 coins per field. This is a much better option then selling your wheat. This goes for all the products you can make, you will make more money off of them then just selling the corp.