Prop efficiency from walls

[rolypoly]

What exactly do I gain by having higher efficiency building when it's surrounded by walls?

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

Having a higher room efficiency basically means that minions will be attracted to the room more quickly and the room will do it's job faster based on the percentage.

I find any amount of room so long as it's restricted to 3 by any single dimension, always results in 150% efficiency for each prop (like the bookcases in the archive or the cauldrons in the alchemy lab for example, the things minions interact with).
So basically this works for a room that's 3x10, 3x5, 3x20, even 3x1000 if that was possible (which it's not and won't ever be possible for obvious performance reasons), with 150% with 6+ walls for each and every prop.

Feel free to experiment though! :D

[rolypoly]

Eh, so far I never have enough space to allow so many walls around my rooms...

[Biliskner]

I've found that with the latest patch and the decrease in minion population caps, 5x5 rooms tend to work pretty well. They're also more efficient in terms of space usage compared to rooms 3 tiles wide

4 props:
5x5 + walls = 7x7 49 tiles
3x9 + walls = 5x11 55 tiles

In general any square room is more efficient because you get that extra saving from both the width and length

[Fireeye]

Very simply put, rooms with a higher efficiency (that is, above 100%) allow your minions to work faster. They will level up more quickly in a barracks, research new sins faster in an archive, build new defense parts in a foundry more quickly, and so on.

[Cthary]

5x5 is still the way to go, with the exepction of single prop rooms like the altar, which has to be 3xSomething, for a 5x5 Altar will not get the bonus.

[Biliskner]

Actually the Sanctuary is a tooltip bug, the altar doesnt get any efficiency bonus but the prayer mats do. That should be fixed in an upcoming update

[nutter666]

Originally posted by Biliskner:

Actually the Sanctuary is a tooltip bug, the altar doesnt get any efficiency bonus but the prayer mats do. That should be fixed in an upcoming update

Yeah we saw this happening, the prayer mats get the bonuses and it's averaged out for the tooltip/icon/pizza slices thing on top of the altar itself. Should be fixed in the next update :)

[☮namenloser☮]

Originally posted by nutter666:

Originally posted by Biliskner:

Actually the Sanctuary is a tooltip bug, the altar doesnt get any efficiency bonus but the prayer mats do. That should be fixed in an upcoming update

Yeah we saw this happening, the prayer mats get the bonuses and it's averaged out for the tooltip/icon/pizza slices thing on top of the altar itself. Should be fixed in the next update :)

10 years later still seems to be buged