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well done  ^^

That covers mines and homes, but what about the tens of thousands of farms, lumbermills, armouries and taverns every good city has? Oh ya and gts, mts and warehouses =p

mines+homes

the whole point is that that isn't the right ratio

Mr Ant, using slaves you can compensate it.

You could also do 6:25 and no slaves but that gives you less money ;P

For every 1k homes you take away and replace with 1k mines and cavers need to be replaced with 31k slaves
-26k from tax/total income

plus the cost of slaves if they are 100 each that is 7.5m for the 75k
and also i can think of better ways to put 75k slaves to use

What's the best Caver ratio? I've read many guide's and i don't know which one to choose. Can someone help me?

of course if you have extra slaves you can cheat by changing ratio of homes to mines by using slaves to work mines. still 1 caver per mine just more mines = more cavers

def ratios(town_size):
    multiplier = 25/6.0
    homes = town_size / (multiplier + 1)
    mines = homes * multiplier
    print '%i // %.2f // %.2f // %i' % (town_size, homes, mines, homes+mines)

There's the Python code for that print above. It might be hard to build 0.35 homes etc, but those are correct values. I'd probably round down the numbers and build extra mines to fill up the missing slots.

I agree with that supposedly unknown moderator.

I prefer the other ratios. Thats if I understoof the question right, it did seem a little leet to me.

omgwtfbbq

its a % boost to production based off the % of cavers to mines

you have a ratio of cavers:mines... that goes up to a max of 100% (1:1) and no bonus return for more cavers passed 100%

i dont remember where it is in these forums, but essentially cavers are worth it if you can invest in them early enough to reach their BEP (break-even point)

at the BEP the extra gold mined by cavers exceed the cost to train the caver + the opportunity cost of having used that gold elsewhere.

its more than 5, but less than 15 RL days that those cavers have to be in a mine producing to justify the cost if i remember correctly - it will vary somewhat too based on the base production rate in your mines at the time

I usually recommend cavers for any dwarf build, but I wouldn't train too many past day 20 of an Era