Help me.. I can't math!

[bchapman]

Okay, so I was trying to figure out how to get more coin while trying to get my masteries on my feed mills and this is what I came up with.. kind of.

So I was debating between Goat Feed and Chicken Feed. I know Goat Feed takes longer to produce and so I don't have to keep filling the mill as much but Chicken Feed is faster therefore I can sell more, even if it is at a cheaper price. What I need someone to help me with is math, because well like it says in the title I can't math to save my life. (I failed math in High School.. theres all the proof you need!)

I want to know how much revenue I would be making (approx) if I were to sell Chicken Feed for a day over Goat Feed? I have tried to do the math with the time and everything but I got numbers that didn't make sense (that happens to me a lot) can someone please help me with the math!

Any opinions would be great as well. I really want to get the Feed Mill mastery, but its going to take a while either way.

[Red]

Click on this link as Nizerifin did a spread sheet to show cost analysis of items including animal feed. This info should help you out. It is an impressive spreadsheet!!

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ght=speadsheet

[BulldogLover]

I sympathize with your math issue....I can soooo relate!

However, since you mentioned you'll accept advice, here's what works for me (I'm down to my last few hundred hours until my last mill mastery, oh yeah, at level 80...ugh!)

I debated with with your same issue, but here is one thing the math (may) not take into consideration...how well will your product sell??? I mean, yes, you can make a ton of goat feed but the max price is the same as the cow (never knew why, but it is what it is). If someone is active on their farm with full a complement of barn animals, that means 15 sacks of cow feed each hour. As opposed to the goats which are what- every 8 hours. Plus, milk is the base product for so many other things that are needed constantly. (Oh cripes, that sounds like one of those dreaded "if the train A leaves the station @...and train B leaves the station@) - not going there!

So, what works for me: if I have time to tend the farm a lot, I produce egg and cow feed constantly (also what I personally need for my all my animals). If it's a time I know I'll be away from the iPad for awhile, I'll put in the longer duration feed which hopefully takes until I get back on line- so the mills keep turning toward that magical, far off number.

Also, all feed seems to sell well in the DD. However the players just starting out really need the chicken and cow feed, so I think selling that really helps them. I sell it all in increments of 5 (except chicken) because buyers barns are limited and there's 5 animals to a pen. Chicken feed I usually sell in increments of 6, since the max chickens per pen is 6.

I'm sure they'll be many more answers to your dilemma that will definitely help. As I said, this is what has worked for me.

Good Luck!

[IBShel]

That spread sheet is WAY too detailed for me! Someone had too much time on their hands to figure all that out.

I just like playing on the farm...

[bchapman]

Click on this link as Nizerifin did a spread sheet to show cost analysis of items including animal feed. This info should help you out. It is an impressive spreadsheet!!

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ght=speadsheet

Thank you for the spreadsheet! It is a lot of help, but since there are so many numbers I still get a headache looking at it! Also this player calculated the times without having some of the masteries. I am sitting on my second star, which makes my Chicken Feed four minutes instead of five, so the numbers are in accurate. It is a great spreadsheet though and has really helped me out on other items and the profits. I just wish she was at a higher level so I could see more of the results!

[bchapman]

I sympathize with your math issue....I can soooo relate!

However, since you mentioned you'll accept advice, here's what works for me (I'm down to my last few hundred hours until my last mill mastery, oh yeah, at level 80...ugh!)

I debated with with your same issue, but here is one thing the math (may) not take into consideration...how well will your product sell??? I mean, yes, you can make a ton of goat feed but the max price is the same as the cow (never knew why, but it is what it is). If someone is active on their farm with full a complement of barn animals, that means 15 sacks of cow feed each hour. As opposed to the goats which are what- every 8 hours. Plus, milk is the base product for so many other things that are needed constantly. (Oh cripes, that sounds like one of those dreaded "if the train A leaves the station @...and train B leaves the station@) - not going there!

So, what works for me: if I have time to tend the farm a lot, I produce egg and cow feed constantly (also what I personally need for my all my animals). If it's a time I know I'll be away from the iPad for awhile, I'll put in the longer duration feed which hopefully takes until I get back on line- so the mills keep turning toward that magical, far off number.

Also, all feed seems to sell well in the DD. However the players just starting out really need the chicken and cow feed, so I think selling that really helps them. I sell it all in increments of 5 (except chicken) because buyers barns are limited and there's 5 animals to a pen. Chicken feed I usually sell in increments of 6, since the max chickens per pen is 6.

I'm sure they'll be many more answers to your dilemma that will definitely help. As I said, this is what has worked for me.

Good Luck!

Thank you so much for the advice! haha, I'm glad someone shares my math problem! All my friends were good at math (maybe thats why they are my friends LOL) But your advice does make a lot of sense, and I will take it into consideration as I am working on that mastery.

:eek: you've almost fully mastered your Feed Mills! Please let me know when you are so I can go visit your farm. I wanna see what they look like with the stars on them!

[mzmflo]

i dont really care about the feed to calculate it out but give me maybe 30 mins ill post something up regarding to your OP.

edit:
btw can someone tell me real quick with 2 star mill, how many second is it giving the various feeds? is it 3 mins or 2 mins for chicken feed and so on? i have only 1 star mill.

i am asking because for example, for first star it says 5% off the time
chicken feed base time is 5 mins, but with 1 star it is reduced to 4 mins. even though 5% of 5 mins is only 30 sec. 10% of 5 mins is 1 min, is the chicken feed reduced a further 1 min or is SC giving you 2 mins off the time? so i am interested to know the time to make the feeds for 2 starred mill. will help me with the calculations.

thanks.

[GirlMixALot]

On a two stars feed mill it is as follows:

chick feed - 4 mins
cow feed - 9 mins
pig feed - 18 mins
sheep feed - 27 mins
goat feed - 36 mins

[mzmflo]

On a two stars feed mill it is as follows:

chick feed - 4 mins
cow feed - 9 mins
pig feed - 18 mins
sheep feed - 27 mins
goat feed - 36 mins

thanks for that. ill come back with the calculations in a bit (for real)

[thaneli]

I have the answer!

if you would to this for 10 hours, you would get 13860 coins more with Chicken food than goat food. So 20h= 27 720.

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