emzeeshady
Skirmisher
posted 08-26-11 00:21 AM EDT (US)
How do you calculate them?
Jerom
Skirmisher
posted 08-26-11 09:22 AM
EDT (US)
1 / 8
You apply the gather rates of a vill:
food: 0.84
coin: 0.60
wood: 0.50
then you calculate how many seconds it costs a vill to get a certain amount of resources (ie 1 wood = 2 vs). The gather rates actually change when you get more upgrades or go on a different resource (for example mills are slower than hunts).
Jerom
Skirmisher
posted 08-27-11 04:24 AM
EDT (US)
4 / 8
Well, its actually way more accurate.
If you'd compare a musk to a pike most people tend to think that pikes are much cheaper and that that is one of their strengths. But in fact a pike is 103 villseconds iirc and a musk 108 vill seconds (not sure on the numbers though). Its actually a remarkably small difference because the musk is mainly food heavy (which gathers easily the fasted) while the pikes are rather wood heavy (which gathers the slowest).
Jerom
Skirmisher
posted 08-28-11 05:14 AM
EDT (US)
8 / 8
Pikes are useful when doing Xbow Pike, more so than musks, because then you only need to get 2 different kinds of market upgrades. If you;d go musk Xbow, you'd be about 7 units down to the Xbow Pike variant because you have to get more market upgrades for the same gather rate.
Also iirc pikes has 8 attack actually, and a x5 multiplier against cav = 40 attack against cav. Quite useless for sure.