Ideal number of sheep

[IDerpedYourMom]

So I just did some calculations.

500 sheep produce 500 wool in 1 game hour.

2000 wool = pallet

Therefore 2000 sheep for 1 pallet per game hour or

6000 sheep for 1 pallet every 20 mins. Note that wool production is calculated every 20 mins

Anymore than 6000 sheep is waste.

[99 To Life]

Wow, that's a lot of sheep to shag, er, I mean sheer. Nice work on the calcs...

[Daniel Love]

20 is fine i think

[Daniel Love]

or you was that bored you just did this

[IDerpedYourMom]

Since the mission rewards are so huge, so far made about $5,000,000 for delivering harvests, I'm buying up enough to start playing the game at 1x speed. 20 sheep would mean 100 hrs before I pick up a pallet.

[DukaSoft]

Why would anyone sane go through "the store clicking spree" to get 6k sheeps lol :)

[Maiteria]

Originally posted by dukasoft:

Why would anyone sane go through "the store clicking spree" to get 6k sheeps lol :)

lol yeah... and it's been made worse in FS15... with the confirmation each time you get one...
can't spam click the buy button... a mod will be needed like in FS2013 :D

[Daniel Love]

guys it is not a race it is all for fun

[DukaSoft]

sure its not a race, just dont like the shop that much for buying animals

[Daniel Love]

yes it does take time one at a time sill really it sould ask how meany you like

[livedlila]

Ill probally setle for 1000 when I have the funds...

[javr]

you can just spam enter thou, once to buy, once to confirm and repeat. Only 12000 button pushes thou

[IDerpedYourMom]

Lol you guys are funny. Edit save game. Subract $1,800,000 from your money and add 6,000 to your sheep flock count. Lol 12,000 key presses... lol lol lol

[XyonicS]

Originally posted by Derp Derp:

Lol you guys are funny. Edit save game. Subract $1,800,000 from your money and add 6,000 to your sheep flock count. Lol 12,000 key presses... lol lol lol

lol, don't make it too easy for them ;)

[ArcaneGamer]

Lol, devs need to have the common sense to develop a quantity box when you buy animals!

[ArcaneGamer]

Also, 6k sheep is 120k/day in maintenance! Then you have to worry about feed and transport! That would be time consuming. You would very likely make more if you spent the same time mowing grass, delivering it to the silago silo, and dumping the silage into the BGA bin!

If a pallet is worth 4.5k and you sell 1 pallet per 20 minutes, then you make 324k/day. That is 72 pallets to pick up and deliver per day, then you need to take the time to provide the animal feed, so meh! Is all that work really worth a profit of 204k/day?

On normal, I can provide 100 tonnes of silage material in one real-time hour, which nets about $160k. And that's on a starter farm! The equipment is cheap, and the maintenance doesn't even scratch 1/2 a thousand per day.