Today we're ready to start looking at Improved Silos, especially now that they aren't going to be for a limited time only.
As previously discussed, the improved silo has been marketed to us as producing 3 times as quickly as a regular silo, but unfortunately since the walk time isn't/can't be slashed, our little guys needing to make 3 trips ends up making them not quite as good as 3 silos.
They come in at 2.66 times the price of a regular silo in gems though, so certainly if you're just starting your silo journey they're a comparable way to go.
Fexno (of Sandycove) has done up some maths for a 5 Improved Silo : 14 Farm layout that looks like it maps out rather nicely. Initially I'm only able to squeeze it into Sector 1 in front of the mayors house, but we're looking into Sector 3 as a potential secondary location.
I've created the layout over on my Ares server account for your viewing. First, the picture, explanation will go below:
The numbers are the respective walk distances from those locations.
Yellow squares are where you will place improved silos.
Blue squares are where you will place farms.
The white squares are a location you will need to place a farm. you only need to place a farm in 1 of the locations though. The other 2 can be ignored.
This primary layout (with the flexible 64 second squares) will be checked to see if it can fit anywhere else. At this stage, it's possible that it can't be.
To assist in drawing out the map with roads, I've placed the pink arrow to help get started. Start drawing from the front left corner of your mayors house as shown in the picture. You can extend the lines across the front and side of the house to help get the location just right.
Here's the maths Fexno provided to go along with the diagram:
The average walk time for the farms is 50.29 seconds. A little over the 48 seconds I tend to prefer, but not so much that it becomes anything less than a nice layout.
This might be the biggest layout presentable with the improved silos, but there will be some other smaller ones that can fit in more locations, probably with a 3 imp silo to 8 farm ratio in the future.
Happy Settling.
I've created the layout over on my Ares server account for your viewing. First, the picture, explanation will go below:
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Yellow squares are where you will place improved silos.
Blue squares are where you will place farms.
The white squares are a location you will need to place a farm. you only need to place a farm in 1 of the locations though. The other 2 can be ignored.
This primary layout (with the flexible 64 second squares) will be checked to see if it can fit anywhere else. At this stage, it's possible that it can't be.
To assist in drawing out the map with roads, I've placed the pink arrow to help get started. Start drawing from the front left corner of your mayors house as shown in the picture. You can extend the lines across the front and side of the house to help get the location just right.
Here's the maths Fexno provided to go along with the diagram:
The average walk time for the farms is 50.29 seconds. A little over the 48 seconds I tend to prefer, but not so much that it becomes anything less than a nice layout.
This might be the biggest layout presentable with the improved silos, but there will be some other smaller ones that can fit in more locations, probably with a 3 imp silo to 8 farm ratio in the future.
Happy Settling.
Stay tuned ... we can do better than this.
ReplyDelete(and the above couldn't fit in S3, we tried, it came sortof close, but wasn't going to happen).