Cash crop "loads?"

[kingofny]

Coffee gets $1300 per "load", Pineapples $900...but what is a "load?"  

[Jamon_Del_Guapo]

A 'load' my friend is what the down-troden Teamsters cart down to your docks and sit there (small piles of goods) while your Dock Workers break their backs loading the capitalist swine freighters.

-Jamon

[kingofny]

How many loads does an average farm produce?  I assume it depends on the soil, so what if the farm is on "light green" soil?

[Jamon_Del_Guapo]

Well my fine friend...it depends on more than just soil.  You must have the right combination of the following: fertile soil/rain, pollution surroundings, elevation of farm, number of workers, skill of worker, distance of farmers homes to farm, etc.

The longer a farmer works at a particular farm, their skill level will go up, and eventually they become more effiecient at their job resulting in more productivity.

Flat farms are easier to work than those on a hillside resulting in higher worker productivity.

Diastance of homes makes a big difference.  If your farmers live too far away, they spend less time in the fields, since they are traveling and resting.  

More farmers per farm obviously results in more productivity...make sure farmers are getting paid enough at the more difficult farms so they will stay.

-Jamon Del Guapo

[Wooly]

Check this out: I was going broke and I checked my Cigar Factory.  It said that there were 13.4 loads of tobacco there and alot more Cigars.  I don't remember how many loads, but it was alot.  As I watched the loads started dropping and cash started coming in.  That was a very strong motivation to build more teamsters.  My goods were piling up.  

  --Wooly

[Coconut Kid]

How many loads does an average farm produce?  I assume it depends on the soil, so what if the farm is on "light green" soil?

As Jamon_Del_Guapo implies, which overlay setting is 'light green'? Do you mean the "eye" of the building? If so, that is the composite of fertility and wetness; and 'light green' means less than the best, but a little better than marginal. Certainly less than the average.

Look at all the soil factors:

• fertility (reduced by pollution)
• current wetness
• average wetness (over 80 years)

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Also, different crops produce different loads on different cycles.