At what point are the barn and silo 'large enough'?

Hi all,

I've been playing for a while now, level 46. I keep struggling with the barn size. Silo isn't really an issue, i just keep it filled up.
My silo is 825 and my barn is 800. I'm a bit of a hoarder, i try to keep 5 to 8 items of every item in stock, to be able to do the next boat quickly, but my barn is always short of space. I keep selling 10 wool/bacon/eggs just to be able to feed my hungry animals.
At what point does that become less of a hassle, if ever? I try to upgrade as fast as i can, but the barn items are pretty hard to find in the market (especially planks for me).

Regards,

Maarten

Never. :)

Mine are at 1500 each now, and I'm still cramped. For awhile silo space wasn't a problem, but now I'm running into the limit more, probably because there are new crops to store.

There are people who have much larger barns than mine, who still say they never have enough space.

Part of the problem is that you need so many expansion items as barn size increases. It's about 50 of each item for the next expansion for me; for both barn and silo, that means about 300 slots taken up for expansion items.

Probably most of it is that stuff expands to fill the space available for it. ;)

Barn 1900 and silo 1800, still feeling cramped!!!!:cool:

Although to answer your question properly, I guess around the 1200'mark it started to feel easier for me. I could hold onto more items, and was able to do more of my own boats without using Tom, and still able to help others' boats.

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Originally Posted by Tweezle

Barn 1900 and silo 1800, still feeling cramped!!!!:cool:

Although to answer your question properly, I guess around the 1200'mark it started to feel easier for me. I could hold onto more items, and was able to do more of my own boats without using Tom, and still able to help others' boats.

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That was probably around the point where you had every machine and could calculate the number of items you can store?

Same goes for silo. Haven't had a new product in ages so i know how much i can store.

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Originally Posted by Janilee

Part of the problem is that you need so many expansion items as barn size increases. It's about 50 of each item for the next expansion for me; for both barn and silo, that means about 300 slots taken up for expansion

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I was thinking about this the other day actually. There must be a point at which it's better to just stop, sell off all expansion materials and make the most of the extra space. I'm only at 450 so I'm certainly not at that point yet...

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Originally Posted by Velcro

I was thinking about this the other day actually. There must be a point at which it's better to just stop, sell off all expansion materials and make the most of the extra space. I'm only at 450 so I'm certainly not at that point yet...

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It's always somewhere around 10% of your total barn space so that should not be an issue. You need 54 items for the 500 upgrade, 114 for the 1000 update, 144 for the 1500 update, etc etc.

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Originally Posted by Velcro

I was thinking about this the other day actually. There must be a point at which it's better to just stop, sell off all expansion materials and make the most of the extra space. I'm only at 450 so I'm certainly not at that point yet...

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At the risk of revealing myself to be a total nerd...before I found this forum (and that handy chart), I did one myself, and included the percentage of storage space taken up by the required items.

I didn't realize at the time that after 1000, it goes up by 50 instead of 25. Having passed 1000 now, and adjusting my spreadsheet, it turns out that the number of required expansion items as a percentage of total storage increases slightly until 1000, then starts decreasing.

So I'd say it's worth it to keep expanding, at least if you plan to go past 1000.

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Originally Posted by DeHongaar

It's always somewhere around 10% of your total barn space so that should not be an issue. You need 54 items for the 500 upgrade, 114 for the 1000 update, 144 for the 1500 update, etc etc.

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The worst is 875 to 1000: the required expansion items take up 11.7% of your space.

By the end (to 10,000), the required expansion items take up only 6.6% of your space. So it does get easier, once you get past 1000.

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Originally Posted by Janilee

The worst is 875 to 1000: the required expansion items take up 11.7% of your space.

By the end (to 10,000), the required expansion items take up only 6.6% of your space. So it does get easier, once you get past 1000.

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I might be a nerd too, i did all these calculations to confirm/bust my 'it gets harder when you need more' paranoia.

-edit- i even made a chart. And saved it:

http://i.imgur.com/MoHMSCJ.jpg

Nice Chart!

Storage space is always painful. i'm at 2,000 each, and still feeling it.

Barn is much tougher than silo, I constantly keep a silent count of each item. Silo I'm sometimes not even counting at this point.

If they add new machines with this update, it will get tough again.