Tax gold or few resources more?

Hello.

We all know that after the "Helping hands" research it is possible to overload mines/mills with workers that are less efficient than regular ones (those which are distributed withing the blue line).
The question is to do so or not? Is the selling of red-line-villager's resources more profitable than their regular taxes?

E.g. with one of my decent cities:

Let's say that we are lucky with some desperate marble buyers and they are willing to pay 10 gold pieces each for a marble unit, also we do not require any of resources.

Level 18 Town hall; level 12 Stonemason; Level 16 Quarry.

Marble income from overloading: 62 units per hour. With the following statement: 620 gold per hour.

Tax gold income without overloading: 600 gold per hour.

(I didn't show you the equations but I easily can if someone's interested)
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As we see in this situation it's little bit better to let those lazy villagers work. So.. I offer you to do some math in your city/cities and share it here so we can make some conclusions about this topic if someone's interested. Maybe there's a formula already discovered which I do not know - in that case pardon me for this topic.

Arthur.

The situation only seems profitable in this particular situation. Most people won't pay 10 gold for any item unless they are desperate. This means that it may take a long time for a buyer to actually purchase the item. Since the population is taxed hourly, unless someone buys the item within the first 2 hours, your taxes will always out-produce the money that might be earned from selling the overloaded resources

Example:
Marble income from overloading: 62 units
Income per hour (iph) from taxes: 600 gold
Price of marble for sale: 10
With these three statements, the income from selling marble is 620 gold. If the sale isn't made in the first 2 hours after the offer goes up, your iph is at 1200. This makes a difference of 580 gold.

Hmm, yes! You are quite right!
Still it's unknown at what parameters (level of quarry & stonemason) it could be more profitable. Of course.. if only it's possible at all or not.

But if you go overload, the rate will slowly drop over time. for example. if it is 500 goods per hour. Then you overload to 580. It will slowly drop from 580 back to around 520. So it wouldn't be as efficient. Then you need to put if off of over load and then you got to wait for a day or two and then put them back on.

at least that's what I think will happen because i've done it before.

Hmm.. strange - I have answered your reply a day ago but there's no sign of it.. oh well..

What do you mean by "(..) rate will slowly drop (..)"? I have never observed anything like that.

Overload means for every 4 citizens you get one unit. Unless it's worth 12 per unit I wouldn't do it. Now adding 1 or 2 can get you an extra unit, but otherwise stick with the normal max.

Over load should be a temporary thing. when you go over load, the goods per hour will drop as time drags out. Do you get it? It happened to me. Unless I'm delusional

Overload has nothing to do with time....

are you sure?

It's always best just to sick to the natural maximum. You don't get the same benefit from your buildings like the forester for overloaded resource gatherers.

Ming Leung wrote:are you sure?

Yes, yes I am

ArthurTd7 wrote:I am currently gathering information and writing down equations for a formula concerning this topic. In the nearest time I might have one inaccurate, but I want a perfect formula, that's why programming is going to be needed. With Turbo Pascal (which we were learning in school) I am able to complete everything, but it's going to take a hell lot of time, because Ikariam makers like to do some random stuff with numbers.

Remember there is a random element in this game, but still It's not that hard. 1 worker=1 unit before overload and for everyone 4 workers after the normal limit, it's 4 workers=1 unit. Simple enough?

In battles and some other things there are "rolls of dice" on whether an attack hit and whether it killed a unit along with some other aspects of the game.

My mind isn't mature enough to understand this stuff. It makes my head hurt. I'm only going to highschool. I only learned how to program easy stuff.

The only problem is the selling price, sure you have the average, but some people might be willing to buy it for 12 a unit. This is what I'm talking about. The Human Error.

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