What's the advantage of a Paddy over a Farm?

[ReMeDy]

I don't get it. Farms cost 100 gold and 30 lumber and I can harvest from them every season. Paddies, however, cost an additional 20 lumber, I can only harvest them every autumn, AND can only be built next to water or irrigation.

Even if a paddy gives me more in its one season, I can harvest from a farm every season. What am I missing here, or is the game just doing a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ job explaining something?

[JustaGamer]

In this game your Troop # is tied to crop #. You can have more troop than you have crop, even if you have a lot of supply. I'm not sure but I think paddy give you a higher base crop than farm.

[Aux Freed]

Can you elaborate on it Raven? Because from what i understand: The higher the crop, the higher
the max troop count will be for that specific castle.

[Kitsune Zeta]

As raven said, if your maximum conscripts is more than your current crops, then your crop value is the soft cap for your conscripts instead.

A level 5 Farm, on my save file, gives 112 crops towards this. A level 5 Paddy gives 225 crops (double what a Farm gives). I actually have 4 Level 6 paddies, each giving 300 crops (which makes me think that a Level 6 farm would give 150 crops)

With regards to actual Harvest values, I would not be able to tell you. I do know that I have 8 paddies, 4 level 5 and 4 level 6, and the one level 5 farm (because I haven't irrigated to that spot yet) and when their harvest time comes, the supply gained (on Easy's resource scaling, mind you) is in the thousands. I'd have to change all of them into Farms to see what the difference is.

[JustaGamer]

Originally posted by Laughing Cloud:

Can you elaborate on it Raven? Because from what i understand: The higher the crop, the higher
the max troop count will be for that specific castle.

Zeta explained it. But to further the detail:

you know you have 3 stats in your town:

- Crops: the higher, the more supply you get from haverst.
- Commerce: the higher, the more gold you get.
- Conscript: the higher, the more troop you have.

The thing is, conscript # is tied to your crop #, even if you build a lot of Warrior's Quarter, it can't exceed your Crop #. Paddy simply give a higher base crop # than farm. Crop doesn't give you more troop directly, but you can't have more troop than your crop can support even if you stock up a lot of supply.

[Aux Freed]

mhm now i get it....thanks for the clarification