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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]This is more for attackers than explorers, but its a highly related topic. Watch your pop bonus real close when it comes time to build either homes or barracks. Most of us have seen that you need a 1.26666666% pop bonus for a home to house 38 people. Everyone claims that this is the point at which it is more efficient to build homes than barracks. However, if your pop bonus is 30%, you house only 39 peasants in a home VS. 38 troops in a barracks. Assuming you have a 25% plat bonus, that 1 extra peasant is going to make you a "massive" 3.375 extra plat per hour. If your rezone cost is 1500 plat per acre, it will take 444.4444 hours (18+ days) for you to regain the money that was spent on rezoning the hill into a home. I'm pretty sure that we would all rather have 1 or 2 more attackers now than an extra 3 plat per hour 3 weeks from now, so pay attention to your pop bonus. My opinion is that once your pop bonus gets over 16.6666%, don't bother rezoning homes into hills, and once your bonus is over 36.6666%, start rezoning hills into homes. This of course will vary based on your plat bonus, rezoning cost, and probably some other things I'm forgetting, but it should be a good rule of thumb.[/quote]
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Tim_Myth
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Quick Question on Homes
replied on: 7/1/2003 11:15:17 AM

This is more for attackers than explorers, but its a highly related topic.

Watch your pop bonus real close when it comes time to build either homes or barracks. Most of us have seen that you need a 1.26666666% pop bonus for a home to house 38 people. Everyone claims that this is the point at which it is more efficient to build homes than barracks. However, if your pop bonus is 30%, you house only 39 peasants in a home VS. 38 troops in a barracks. Assuming you have a 25% plat bonus, that 1 extra peasant is going to make you a "massive" 3.375 extra plat per hour. If your rezone cost is 1500 plat per acre, it will take 444.4444 hours (18+ days) for you to regain the money that was spent on rezoning the hill into a home. I'm pretty sure that we would all rather have 1 or 2 more attackers now than an extra 3 plat per hour 3 weeks from now, so pay attention to your pop bonus.

My opinion is that once your pop bonus gets over 16.6666%, don't bother rezoning homes into hills, and once your bonus is over 36.6666%, start rezoning hills into homes. This of course will vary based on your plat bonus, rezoning cost, and probably some other things I'm forgetting, but it should be a good rule of thumb.

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