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#### Still too much math!

I know this is minor in the grand scheme of things, and the new skills are great, but the stupid math involved in planning resources for wood, fiber and metal is driving me crazy
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Wood is actually one of the better ones, but boards require 4 planks (which come in stacks of 250), are made in batches of 40, stack in units of 100, and are needed 4 at a time to make posts. Seriously, I know you guys like unusual numbers, but could you possibly have a little mercy so I don't always have stray leftover boards when trying to craft in a series from planks to beams? Thread stacks very nicely at 400, but then you need 21 to make fabric, which goes back to stacking nicely at 10. Really? I know it shows a lack of imagination, but my CDO little brain likes nice round numbers that divide evenly into each other, so I know that 5 stacks of X makes 1 stack of Y, without resorting to an Excel spreadsheet or Java coding. Please?

Posted 7 months ago by KhaKhonsu | Permalink

### Replies

- Just gather your resources at random. Why do you need precise everything?
  Posted 7 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Because some people like to play the game differently than you do.
  Posted 7 months ago by Helvete | Permalink
- Because we are allowed only a few slots for bags, and each bag can only hold a few kinds of things, and each stack of a resources has a limited size. And the stack size for different resources are all over the map, and some bundle and some don't. If I could gather and carry whatever I want, it wouldn't matter so much.
  Posted 7 months ago by KhaKhonsu | Permalink
- you can always sublet the mathiness to a good glitch friend who enjoys numbers. There are a few who love figuring out how much of what can work best.
  Posted 7 months ago by Thursday Soleil | Permalink