Talk:Resource planning/@comment-67.166.147.139-20120302002701

Hey nice spreadsheet! I basically built a similar spreadsheet file and came to the same conclusions as far as most efficient use of gold, time, etc., like the rock candy store yielding the best lvl 2 gold per minute than the other basic stores that using your sheet would.... except for one very major factor: starflowers.

Starflowers cost 99 gold and yield 20 gold every hour. So they yield 1/3 gold per minute, taking only 270 minutes to yield back the invested gold. At only one square, this is by far the best gold investment structure I have seen. The stores can make a bit more gold per minute, but have a much higher price. This means that given some amount of money to invest, purchasing starflowers give far better returns. Also, they have small necessary investment prices: only 99 compared to up to thousands for stores and other big structures. This means they can be purchased early and frequently, making their returns much quicker to access. If that's not enough, their one hour time to completion means you don't have to be hovering over your screen incessantly, like the lvl 1 store goods. In combination with the market, to buy resources needed, the star flower therefore seems to be the best resource and gold generating structure by a long shot.

I'm only at level ten, so the later structures may be more important. But from the upgrades I've seen, nothing's coming close.