One big building per product?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 15.10.2008, 03:20

When you get big, does it make sense to have just one building per product? Aside from the first 20 sqm, the cost of a given capacity is the same for one building as spread over several, right?

If so, why do you need even 60 buildings, never mind 100?
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Edit: Multiple buildings are more efficient for expansion, since less capacity comes off line. Is is possible to delete this post?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 15.10.2008, 08:44

Also, buildings have a cap and they become less efficient. That's where the "2 20m2 produce more then 1 40m2 building" saying comes from.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 15.10.2008, 09:33

Canadian Energy Corp. wrote:Also, buildings have a cap and they become less efficient. That's where the "2 20m2 produce more then 1 40m2 building" saying comes from.

Except stores. 2 stores of 20m2 are the same as 1 store of 40m2.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 15.10.2008, 19:40

Stores don't produce, but yeah...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.10.2008, 02:05

The other reason, which is less obvious but potentially more important, is how you can be productive while expanding.

If you have one 200m building, and you want to double your capacity, you need to double it to 400m. That means your business will be closed for 60 hours.

On the other hand, if you have ten 20m buildings, and you want to double your capacity, you only need to grow each to 40m. That can be done in 6 hours.

So you get an extra 54 hours of profit by using extra slots. Consider that you spend more and more time expanding as you get bigger, and it's pretty obvious that many small buildings is better than one big one.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.10.2008, 09:37

Knolls Knows. That is a very good point, but essentially if you are talking about production buildings you are not doubling capacity.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 18.10.2008, 03:04

Canadian Energy Corp. wrote:Knolls Knows.

Knolls always knows just ask his sheep. Know way to go Knolls and Canadian Energy Corp. now I am going to spend the next 3 days thinking of a saying for Knolls when people ask a question.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 18.10.2008, 05:14

Knolls: You are the master of animation

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 21.10.2008, 04:16

Advanced Electrics wrote:Knolls: You are the master of animation

ROFL!

You know a year and a half I've been waiting for someone to say something about that. In my defense, putting in enough frames to make it smooth would waaay overload the load size limitation on signatures. And it wouldn't be right of me to break that rule, GoldenEye would have to smack me around a bit.

But that's just an excuse. What you really see is my mad Animation skillz.