I have noticed a few discussions on some strategies not being able to compete, so I did some calculations to get to a stocking cash/acre. I think I took into account everything.

some basic assumptions: food = $40, turrets = $140, tech = $2000

Republican Casher: $435 or $525 if cashing. Assumes 175% tech and an even build between Residences and Enterprises

Communist Indy: $481 or $530 if cashing. Assumes 156% tech

Demo Farmer: $487 or $536 if cashing. Assumes 233% tech

Theo Techer: $638 per turn when teching. Of course the techer strategy can only make money when teching so the $638 would need to be multiplied by the % of turns spent teching to compare to the other strategies.

I may have overlooked a factor or miscalculated so please let me know if anyone has ever made similar calculations. I tried to account for market tax, and the cost of food to feed the population and/or military generated.

So it looks like you gave these countries some land other than just production buildings? I assume that is why farmer is less than $494? Also you didn't take into account cash income as a farmer.

Also, I am running a casher right now (although it doesn't have the same criteria as you put forth) and I make $541/acre or $649/acres when cashing.

I know those numbers for Republic Casher are way off. I'm not sure about the others.

A farmer has to deal with decay. I assumed that food is sold every 30 turns so the decay would lower it by $7. If you sell more frequently it will approach $494

The casher and farmer are pretty low compared to my own calculations, but I don't include military consumption/expenses as that is a flat expense for all (except commie which will fluctuate).

Rep casher = PCI * Pop * Tax = [22.5*(1-.35)*(1+2*1/2)*1.75*1.2]*[(1-.95*.35)*(24*.5+12)*1.75]*.35= 61.425*28.035*.35 = 602.7

A casher has an extra population of (1-.95*.35)*12*1.75 eating $40 food at 3 bushels per hundred, costing an extra $17 per turn compared to other strategies.

So somehow I messed up the previous calculation.

Farmer = 5.3*2.33*40 = 494 as pointed out by Detmer.

My calculations don't incorporate expenses other than indy. Indy expenses are .18*1/2*(turrets produced in 30 turns). That assumes that your production is at an equilibrium to your selling.

Then if you include cash income for the farmer, we'd probably be more similar there too.

Also, you should subtract $28.8 from casher for food consumption since that is a fixed expense, given a bushel price.

I'm cashing at $678 per acre atm and techs aren't maxed out.

I was cashing just over 700 an acre at the end of the last round.

Wow you guys are really scientific about this.
The most I do is BOTE calculations.

I knew others hit the math hard for their games. Right down to how many seconds spells will last to such and such a dps, but this game brings it all to whole new levels.