ECS Agricultural Vector. Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Drawn by George, animals graphics by andythenorth, FooBar

General data

Animal farms process fish, cereals and fibre crops and produce livestock and wool. Animal farms can be build by player. Building cost is £304,616. Animal farms have 3 possible layouts.

Animal farms' 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

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 lass than +25% of the previous level, it is decreased.

The industry can rise production level by one or two, and drop it to any level. Increasing production on normal and higher production levels also requires at least 50% of any cargo being transported.

When industry has a very low production level and do not have enough cargo waiting, it tests close down conditions. Industries in service have a close down chance reduced by 50%. Newly build industries can be closed only if they are at least 2 year old. Industries, build by random map generator or map editor, can be closed only if they are at least 5 year old age. A close down chance is 6%, 8% chance for increasing production.

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

Stockpile size

The cargo acceptance is limited by a storage size. If the industry receives more cargo, than it can store, the 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

Possible locations

Animal farms should be build on the flat land near water (0 - 24). They can't be build near other animal farms, farms, fishing grounds, tinning factories and textile mills.