In this article http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/gettingthemost.php there is formula for real production calculation but i didn't understand how is it formulated. Can someone enlighten me for civ's sake? Thanks.
Hammer-Food Formula
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It's a fancy way of standardising yields, for food neutrality.
For example, going from one equilibrium (no growth or starvation, working your best tiles) to another one associated with a higher population (such as increasing your growth cap) and you only have featureless grassland as potentially food-positive tiles.
for a mined grassland hill, you also need 1 farm... so you have an effective yield per tile of 2
(with railroad) or 1.5 (without).
For a plains hill, you need 2 farms so you end up with 1.7/1.3.
Compare to the awesomeness of grassland workshops with all applicable civics... a full 4 that doesn't require support.
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You can expand this and also consider Slavery as an alternative. With a granary, you get a conversion of 30 / (city size + 10) or 45 / (city size + 10) with the Kremlin... for raw efficiency this often beats working hammer tiles.
However, whipping has its own issues, such as being limited by happiness - you typically need to stop using your most food-efficient tiles towards the end of the cycle. So often it gets a combined output of production and specialist-turns that you can't match with regular production but isn't the way to go all-out on hammers.
For example, going from one equilibrium (no growth or starvation, working your best tiles) to another one associated with a higher population (such as increasing your growth cap) and you only have featureless grassland as potentially food-positive tiles.
for a mined grassland hill, you also need 1 farm... so you have an effective yield per tile of 2
(with railroad) or 1.5 (without).For a plains hill, you need 2 farms so you end up with 1.7/1.3.
Compare to the awesomeness of grassland workshops with all applicable civics... a full 4
that doesn't require support.***
You can expand this and also consider Slavery as an alternative. With a granary, you get a conversion of 30 / (city size + 10) or 45 / (city size + 10) with the Kremlin... for raw efficiency this often beats working hammer tiles.
However, whipping has its own issues, such as being limited by happiness - you typically need to stop using your most food-efficient tiles towards the end of the cycle. So often it gets a combined output of production and specialist-turns that you can't match with regular production but isn't the way to go all-out on hammers.
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