ECS Agricultural Vector. Animal Farm

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Valid for ECS 1.1

General data

Drawn by George, animals graphics by andythenorth, FooBar

The Animal farm is the part of the ECS Agricultural Vector.

Cargoes

Accepting

The Animal farm accepts Fish, Cereals and Fibre crops.

Note: One of the Animal farm layouts (with chicken farm graphics) does not accept Fibre crops.

The Animal farm does not accept any cargo during first 93 days of life if built in game.

The Animal farm does not accept any cargo if it is in town zone 0.

Cargo acceptance is limited by storage capacity. If the stockpile is in overflow, the overflowing cargo is accepted and immediately removed from the store into nowhere.

Level	Fish	Cereals	Fiber crops
Very low	173	293	510
Low	328	556	969
Normal	623	1056	1841
High	1183	2006	3498
Very high	2248	3812	6646
Ultimate	4271	7243	12628

Production

The Animal farm produces Livestock and Wool.

The Animal farm does not produce any cargo during first 93 days of life if built in game.

The Animal farm uses 6 production levels.

The Animal farm production is calculated according to the production level and amount of animals and based on values in the table (production data is calculated for 8 cycles a month. During game play, there are 8 or 9 cycles, while the total amount of distributed cargo is adjusted with property for minimal amount of cargo distributed). The production in the table is calculated with assumption that amount of animals is equal to value in the table. In fact this amount changes every cycle.

The amount of produced livestock is subtracted from amount of animals, new animals appear with a factor of 555/553. If there is not enough fodder to feed the animals, the additional amount of livestock is produced (and the total amount of animals is reduced). If there is too much fodder (any fodder storage overflow), the amount of animals is increased by 33% of this fodder.

Processing of fodder goes as % of number of animals. Values for calculating fodder from cargos are represented in the table (according to the specified amount of animals). The most stored cargo (counted as % of storage) is processed first. Additionally, when the animal farm is not covered with snow, animals and farmers gather fibre crops themselves. Amount of fibre crops, gathered by animals is calculated as % of number of animals. Amount of fibre crops, gathered by farmers, is fixed and represented in the table. 5802 animals exist on the farm from the beginning.

The table is calculated for the number of heads from the second table

Level	Livestock (items)	Wool (items)	Fish	Cereals	Fiber crops
Very low	50	102	91	81	71
Low	95	195	174	153	136
Normal	181	370	330	291	258
High	343	702	627	553	490
Very high	652	1334	1192	1051	931
Ultimate	1238	2535	2265	1997	1769

Production change

Production change happens on the 1-st day of every month.

The Animal farm does not change production level during first 93 days of life if built in game.

On the lowest production level (Very low or 3%) advanced closure mechanism is applied with the following protection conditions:

• last one on the map
• younger than 5 years for industries, built in SE (scenario editor) or during map generation, younger than 2 years for others
• transportation level > 75%

Protection can be changed with a parameter of ECS Agricultural Vector to the following protection conditions:

• last one on the map
• younger than 5 years for industries, built in SE (scenario editor) or during map generation, younger than 2 years for others
• transportation level > 1%
• Animal farm was built by the player during game play

Changing production level is calculated by comparing the number of animals with the value, represented in the table. If it is more than -25% from the next level, it is increased. If it is less than +25% of the previous level, it is decreased.

The industry can increase production level by one or two, and decrease it to any level.

Level	-25%	Heads	+25%
Very low	1280	1707	2134
Low	2432	3243	4054
Normal	4620	6160	7700
High	8778	11704	14630
Very high	16679	22238	27798
Ultimate	31689	42252	52815

On normal production level and higher at list 50% of cargo should be transported to allow production level growth

Attention! If the industry is inside a town zone ???, it always generates a "decrease production" event.

Construction

The Animal farm has one of 3 possible layouts. New layouts are welcome (:biggrin:)

The Animal farm has high probability (7) to be built by map generator and low probability (2) to be built during game play.

The Animal farm can be built by a player both in a game and in the scenario editor. Construction cost factor is 104. Construction conditions are represented in the table.

When built by the player during a game, the Animal farm will be in company colours of the builder. When generated by the game or built while in the scenario editor, the Animal farm will pick up the colour randomly.

SE	Condition
+	Build on dry land
+	Build > 1 tiles away from shore tile
+	Build < 25 tiles away from shore tile
+	Build > 3 tiles away from desert tile
–	Build at least 1 tile away from Tz0
–	Build > 31 tiles from a Farm
–	Build > 31 tiles from a Fishing grounds
–	Build > 31 tiles from a Tinning factory
–	Build > 31 tiles from a Textile mill
–	Build > 15 tiles from an Animal farm

Description of Location/Positioning Conditions

Features

The Animal farm is covered with snow when located above snow line. The Animal farm supports company colours.

The Animal farm can be build on sloped land.