User blog comment:Rossval91/High Level Stores Market Analysis/@comment-5405954-20121002023345/@comment-5103836-20121002032201

This has been brought up before, and unfortunatly things are so far out of wack it would take rather drastic measures to make resource production viable again. Many high level villages will use over 1million resources a day.

For example, the most used resource is stone, and at the rate of production of around 1 stone a minute, it would take around 690 days for 1 resource producer to produce a single days worth of stone. Or, you could use 690 stone resource producers to create your daily stone use, but don't forget the 2070 workers needed to man those stone builders with the 518 houses needed for those workers, and lets also not forget the 1380 rock producers (and the 2760 workers and 690 housing units for them) just to supply the stone makers. That would be around 58000 pixels, a 240x240 area (71x71 is the max current size btw), used just for daily resource production.

I think I gave up on resource producers around level 20ish and never looked back.