Forum:Is building a carpenter's workshop worth it?

Is building a carpenter's workshop worth it?


 * In a simple word Yes !!! Of all the Buildings it is probably one of the most important buildings to get, especially when your buildings get to be high levels or you start building large amounts of Units or Ships. -- 02:00, August 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * In not so simple terms, the Carpenter's Workshop is only worth something when the amount of needed material exceeds the capacity of your Warehouse(s), or you find that upgrading the Forester's House too expensive after level 20. In the beginning of the game, when building faster than the next guy is most important, the Forester's House allows you to build faster than the Carpenter's Workshop, level for level.


 * Take for example, you are on an island which allows you to employ 500 workers at the Saw Mill and you need 100 000 pieces of building material for a particular upgrade. It will take 500 workers 200 hours to make 100 000 building material. If you have a level 1 Carpenter's Workshop, you will need 99 000 building material which will take 198 hours. For a level 1 Forester's House you will produce 510 building material per hour, which will take 196 hours, saving you 2 hours of production. Following the 1% decrease of needed materials per Carpenter's Workshop level and the 2% increase of production per Forester's House level, a level 32 Carpenter's Workshop will allow you to upgrade in 136 hours while a level 32 Forester's House will yield the upgrade in 122 hours, a savings of 14 hours.


 * Granted my simple math does not account for buying materials, or materials shipped from another island you have, nor does it account for the material needed to build either building. It should also be noted that the higher level Forester's House does take considerably more resources to build than the Carpenter's Workshop, the Carpenter's Workshop at level 32 will cost approximately the same as a level 18 Forester's House. Depending on your particular play style, you may find the Forester's House better in the beginning game to mid-game up to level 20, where the Carpenter's Workshop comes into play when you can no longer upgrade your Warehouse, cannot build another, or do not wish to further upgrade the Forester's House. The difference between these two buildings are one only discounts at the point of upgrade while the other is continuously generating material as long as you have workers employed. It can also be said that if you are looking to generate a certain amount of building material per hour, you will use less workers and therefore make more gold because of the increased production rate. Flyinj3x 03:18, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your answers!