As I'm completely into Animal Slave labour, and all that jazz I wondered if it be possible for us currant driven mad men to share "data" on the use of Powder of Startling Fecundency.
I will preface this with, I am not a clever man, rather I enjoy making Currents from those less fortunate then myself (mainly the Porcine Variety, I have ambivalent towards the flying species).
I spent the past few days in game working on a way to assess the Power of the Powder so to speak. Here are my results based on a set up of 27 Swine, 10 Butterflys and 3 Chickens (the chickens are for my own, nefarious purposes). I've disregarded the Grain side of things as well quite frankly, I force my pigs to eat the squeezings of the Chickens for self gratification.
Number of Power of Startling Fecundency: 2
Total Cost : (2 * 1200) = 2400
Cost per Spray : (2400/10) = 240
Average Meat Per Spray = 39
Average Butterfly Milk Per Spray = 12
Total Income Over 10 Sprays = 3818
Total - Costs = (3818-2400) = 1418, or 141 currents per spray.
The figures here are from selling the fowl smelling offshoots to a Tool Vendor for a tasty 80%.
Are you guys seeing similar returns on your Powder? How would you go about maximising production with these things.