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Effect of Economy Upgrades are they worth it??

Below are the effects of Economy upgrades on your resource gathering..............

 

Rate with no
TC upgrades
TOTAL %GAIN   rate with
wheelbarrow
TOTAL %GAIN   rate with
handcart
TOTAL %
GAIN

Gold - no upgrade

0.325

-------  

0.329

1.3%  

0.338

3.8%
with gold mining

0.351

7.9%

 

0.368

13.1%

 

0.382

17.4%
with gold shaft mine

0.394

21.3%

 

0.424

30.6%

 

0.437

34.6%

  

         

 

   
Stone - no upgrade

0.306

-------

  

0.311

1.4%

 

0.326

6.4%

with stone mining

0.335

9.5%

   

0.343

11.9%

 

0.346

13.1%

with stone shaft mine

0.389

27.0%    

0.419

36.8%

  0.418

36.6%

  

 

 

 

   

 

   
Wood - no upgrade

0.299

-------

  

0.314

5.2%

 

0.321

7.6%

with double axe

0.327

9.6%

  

0.373

24.8%

 

0.388

29.9%

with bow saw

0.377

26.3%

  

0.433

45.1%

 

0.448

50.2%

with 2 man saw

0.426

42.7%

  

0.468

56.6%

 

0.494

65.3%

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming

0.341

-------   

0.386

13.1%

 

0.415

21.8%

   So as you can see from the chart above it is not good to research Wheelbarrow or Handcart until either you are doing quit a bit farming or until you have a housing problem and cant build villagers..... Because more villagers or other upgrades are better buys for your resources... In my opinion (but it is very important when you start building lots of farms. I usually research the Wheelbarrow and Handcart when I get to castle and have built my 2nd TC)