New Release -- September 20th, 2011

[DawgMa]

Originally Posted by al_bundy

Hi 2 of the products in the Petrochemical Factory had there production increased however the increased production did not require any additional petrochemical barrells to produce the extra production.

for example before the increase was implemented it took 1 Petrochemical barrell to make a batch of 50 Turpentine

Now after the increase was implemented the batch size is 65 it still only takes 1 Petrochemical barrell to make the 65 so no extra strain should occure on the petro barrells

anouther example the oil pump used to be a batch or 1 crude oil barrell costing 1000 coins for the batch of 1 now the production was doubled to a batch of 2 but the batch still only costs 1000 coins so effectivly the cost per barrell has halved. (shame real fuel costs dont halve lol)

hope i have helped

well ... the increased production is a plus, but since it doesn't use any extra petro barrels I don't think that's the answer. I have 1600+ crude oil barrels and the refinery is at max.

I have another account on facebook where I also have farmtown. That account has 2 oil refineries, both at maximum production with 63 barrels of crude in inventory, and has all 5 products in the petrochemical facility maxed out, with 438 barrels of petro left in inventory. Both accounts have three oil wells.

I'm not a mathematician so you might want to double check it. The refinery should produce 84 barrels of petro each week (3 barrels @ 6 hrs = 12/day x 7 = 84). It seems each one of the products in the petro facility needs 28 barrels a week (1 barrel @ 6 hrs = 4/day x 7 = 28), which would be just right to keep 3 products at maximum production. Something appears to have happened to the production ratio of my petrochemical plant during the upgrade. I'm short about 30 barrels of petro. Don't know if it was in my storage or in the facility.

Does anyone have another explanation? Since I did the math now, should I post it in another thread?