We didn't want to have to do it. Honestly, we didn't. But you didn't take the opportunity and so there was no option left but to intervene.
That's right, I'm here to talk to you about potatoes! A few of you may remember back on Elysium that Camelot owned a potato farm. It was a rather large potato farm (51,840 potato input) and we were known quite well for farming potatoes. On DoD, Alkatraz and I didn't want to be known for farming so we left it alone and decided to build Egyptian stuff instead, letting others take the reigns and make potatoes the cheap and reliable food we all know and love.
But nobody listened. We tried to tell people to start potato farms in an effort to make Baked Potatoes the best cost per food level item, but everyone wanted to stick to their carrots... We had to fix this!
It started out as a small farm (1,280 input) to satisfy our own needs and also to turn a small profit when sold to the store:
When we realised nobody else was going to take action, we ramped it up slightly, increasing it to a more reasonable size (6,000 input) for a farm built by us:
Within a couple of harvests we managed our goal, baked potatoes are now the best item in cost per hunger restored, not to mention the 5th most stocked item in the stores!
Carrots are at the time of writing this $0.27, a cost of $0.135 per full hunger icon, whilst Baked Potatoes are $0.32, a cost of $0.107. Before our venture, Baked Potatoes were $0.55, $0.183 per icon restored. It may amuse you to find out that raw potatoes are $0.83 each. We care not for the raws, they are but an inconvenience to us!
I hope you all learn to appreciate baked potatoes for the wonder that they provide.
That's right, I'm here to talk to you about potatoes! A few of you may remember back on Elysium that Camelot owned a potato farm. It was a rather large potato farm (51,840 potato input) and we were known quite well for farming potatoes. On DoD, Alkatraz and I didn't want to be known for farming so we left it alone and decided to build Egyptian stuff instead, letting others take the reigns and make potatoes the cheap and reliable food we all know and love.
But nobody listened. We tried to tell people to start potato farms in an effort to make Baked Potatoes the best cost per food level item, but everyone wanted to stick to their carrots... We had to fix this!
It started out as a small farm (1,280 input) to satisfy our own needs and also to turn a small profit when sold to the store:
When we realised nobody else was going to take action, we ramped it up slightly, increasing it to a more reasonable size (6,000 input) for a farm built by us:
Within a couple of harvests we managed our goal, baked potatoes are now the best item in cost per hunger restored, not to mention the 5th most stocked item in the stores!
Carrots are at the time of writing this $0.27, a cost of $0.135 per full hunger icon, whilst Baked Potatoes are $0.32, a cost of $0.107. Before our venture, Baked Potatoes were $0.55, $0.183 per icon restored. It may amuse you to find out that raw potatoes are $0.83 each. We care not for the raws, they are but an inconvenience to us!
I hope you all learn to appreciate baked potatoes for the wonder that they provide.
