[Discuss] Buros: Organise Repairs vs Survey Administration

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 24 Sep 2007 at 20:30, psymann wrote:

> Josiah Allen wrote:
> > My understanding is that Organize Repairs is supposed to concentrate
> > mostly on production, like civil work but you don't need troops to do
> > it whereas survey administration concentrates on all three, and if
> > you're lucky you'll get production bonuses with that.  So if you only
> > want production bonuses, organize repairs is the safer bet.
> 
> That was my understanding too, but I've feel I've achieved more 
> production improvements using Survey Administration than I have using 
> Organise Repairs, hence my question.
> 
> I suppose that Repairs is pretty much guaranteed to give a point of 
> production whereas Admin may give 0... but then again I have a feeling 
> it's given me 2 before, which Repairs never has.
> 
> It may not be wrong, just thought I'd throw it out there in case a coder 
> happens to find a dodgy co-efficient in there somewhere making Organise 
> Repairs less productive than it should be.  *shrugs*

I think it really depends on the situation. I've had some decent luck with 
Repairs when the region was down by a few dozen percent. I was getting a 
couple percent per turn. Repair lets you concentrate on restoring production, for 
a rather certain chance of getting a production boost, where with Survey work, 
it's only a possibility of boosting production.

However, buro work was recently nerfed across the board. It was about the 
time the new tax system went live on stable. Sicne then, buro work has been 
simply abysmal. You used to be able to count on 1% per hour, at least. Now 
you're lucky to get 1/2% per hour inside your own duchy. Even worse outside.

Along with that, civil work seems to be doing much better than either survey or 
repair.  If you've got a decent number of men, you may just be better off 
altogether doing civil work.

I haven't made any kind of concerted effort to track the gains from the various 
methods. I spend most of my time holding court these days. Seems to be much 
more effective than Survey work.

-- 
Rob

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