Salem

Am I correct on this? 200% speed cuts crop growth time in half, and 300% cuts it in half again?

No, 200% does make it twice as fast as the original, but 300% makes it three times as fast as the original speed, not twice as fast again. For that, you'd want 400%.

Still confused.. So for instance cotton takes 4 days at 100%... how long would it take at 200%, 300%, and 400%?

cbd1167 wrote:Still confused.. So for instance cotton takes 4 days at 100%... how long would it take at 200%, 300%, and 400%?

It is quite simple. X is the time it takes (now this is at speed of 100%). To calculate the time you use next formula: time=(X*100)/Y; Where Y is the new speed.
IN your case: X=4; Y1=200; Y2=300; Y3=400...
Time1=(4*100)/200=2 (days)
Time2=(4*100)/300=1.3333333 (days)
Time3=(4*100)/400=1 (day)
...

You can imagine it like this: every field that has growing produce on it is filling a bucket of a certain size (e.g. for cotton that'd be 96 liters). Each hour, the field adds another liter to the bucket. If the bucket is full, the field has finished growing.

As soon as you increase the speed boost, the amount of water put into the bucket at each step is increased. 200% means 2 liters, 300% is 3 liters, etc. Of course this only takes effect after the coal/dross is applied to the field.

Not a perfect metaphor, but I hope it gets the point across (e.g. the actual timescale is much more fine-grained - you can usually predict it correctly up to a couple of minutes, and then I suppose it can be because of rounding errors when displaying the speed boost).

Some examples:

cotton field, always 100% speed --> 4 days
cotton field, always 200% speed --> 2 days
cotton field, always 400% speed --> 1 day

cotton field, two days of 100% speed, then 200% thereafter --> 3 days
cotton field, one day of 100% speed, then 300% thereafter --> 2 days

This makes sense now.. omg thank you guys!