ECS Agricultural Vector. Food Plant

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Valid for ECS 1.1

Food Plant

Drawn by George, inspired with brewery by some unknown Czech artist (let me know if you know him)

General data

Food plants process cereals, fruit, oil seeds and produce food and fertilizer. Food plants can be build by player. Building cost is £538,936. Food plants have 1 possible layout.

Food plants have the production, represented 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 industry processes the cargo that is stored the most. Changing between processed cargo happens instantly.

About 16 units of food are produced in addition from internal resources of the industry on the lowest production level.

Level	Cycles	Food	Fertilizer (cereals)	Fertilizer (fruit)	Fertilizer (oil seeds)	Cereals	Fruit	Oil seeds
Very low	1	100	27	20	16	167	133	125
Low	2	200	53	40	33	333	267	250
Normal	4	400	107	80	65	667	533	500
High	7	700	187	140	114	1167	933	875
Very high	13	1300	347	260	211	2167	1733	1625
Ultimate	25	2500	667	500	406	4167	3333	3125

Production change

Changing production level is calculated by comparing the sum of cereals * 3/5 and fruit * 3/4 and oil seeds * 4/5 with the value, represented in the table.

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 food 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	Decrease	Increase
Very low	50	250
Low	100	500
Normal	200	1000
High	350	1750
Very high	650	3250
Ultimate	1250

Stockpile size

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

Level	Cereals	Fruit	Oil seeds
Very low	467	293	325
Low	933	587	650
Normal	1867	1173	1300
High	3267	2053	2275
Very high	6067	3813	4225
Ultimate	11667	7333	8125

Possible locations

Food plants should be build near water (0 - 24), on the flat land. They can't be build near other Food plants, fruit plantations and farms.