I recently discovered something pretty major about RoR, concerning the effects of woodworking... If some of you disagree, I urge you to verify the math before you start a-flamin'.
wood gathering rate w/o woodworking: 0.56w/sec
wood gathering rate with woodworking: 0.76w/sec
T = upgrading to tool, no new villies for 2 mins
W = wood chopped
Note:
This table assumes that all villies are on wood,
with 1 minute delay before new villies start chopping.
Villies on berries before tool wouldn't affect
the wood improvement so long since they're an equal
number for all villie totals, just so long as
they're all on wood at tool time.
approximate table of wood gathered
villies before tooling
min 12 18 24 30 36
1 100 100 100 100 100
2 300 300 300 300 300
3 600 600 600 600 600
4 1000T 1000 1000 1000 1000
5 1400T 1500 1500 1500 1500
6 1800 2100T 2100 2100 2100
7 2300W 2700T 2800 2800 2800
8 3116 3300 3600T 3600 3600
9 4068 4000W 4400T 4500 4500
10 5156 5088 5200 5500T 5500
11 6300 6232 6100W 6500T 6600
12 7660 7592 7460 7500 7800T
13 9156 9088 8956 8600W 9000T
14 10788 10720 10588 10232 10200
------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
15 12556 12488 12356 12000 11500W
Notes: Could this mean that a faster tool makes for a stronger economy, not a weaker one?
1. All arrive at 15 mins with 42 villies, thus only the wood chopped (and tool times) vary.
2. Woodcutting rates, villie training times and tool research time gathered from