Gear Guide - Part 2 - Egyptian Unit (needs input)

So part 2 in these series is on Egyptians (the civ I know least unfortunately) as a friend of mine has just hit lvl 40 with them.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ao61pzQyDTPILsaH6f_XTx-fXo/edit#gid=475453603

The Basic items, when is what is most relevant to a new lvl 40 player is probably fairly ok, but what to use as best items, particularly for key Legendary quest units could use some input from more experienced players.

You can find where gear is from (drops, quest, crafted) using https://search.projectceleste.com/ and see other choices there too. For crafted items ask in trade chat if none are on marketplace, same with items/advisors your are looking for. The community is friendly and generally happy to help out.

You can see the impact of various choices on your units using https://unitstats.projectceleste.com/

 

Updated good bit with input from SystemGlitch. More input will be great too.

 

If you do no building at all, and 50 villagers gathering, then Kaveh gives you about 2 resource per second more then Construction hammer. Archon's hammer gives about 0.75 resource more than Kaveh in same situation. That is with zero building occurring, so is around the maximum advantage of those hammers. So they give you effect of having an extra 1-2 villagers if you've 50 villagers gathering.

When you include build time effects, there is more variability depending on how much you build of course but as a sample scenario in my calculations page it cuts in half the resource difference (from your building villagers being able to return to gathering sooner). That calculation does not account for the effect that building a town center sooner would have on getting out villagers sooner. Which would further reduce the resource difference.

So in effect, if you have a Kaveh or Archon and you swap it for a Construction, you will end up with almost the exact same amount of resources and still get buildings built faster.

If there are scenarios where you are sure you don't need much construction, then maybe those hammers have use, Kaveh is also cheaper usually so is solid stepping stone.

Quick comparison info:
3% gathering difference is roughly equivalent to one extra villager, 1.5 resources per second, over course of game
3% building rate difference is roughly equivalent to just over 1 second on most buildings (4 seconds on a fortress).

 

@Ardeshir did a quick calc for that scenario, its at the bottom of the Maths tab if you want to look but in short:

70villagers, gathering wood (for highest gathering rate) for 20min, with zero building.
Archon: 152,040 resources gathered
Kaveh: 150,360 resources gathered (-1680 which is roughly effect of 0.8 villagers)
Construction: 146,160 resources gathered (-5880 which is roughly effect of 2.8 villagers)
Craftsman hammer: 144,480 resources gathered (-7560 which is roughly effect of 6.3 villagers)

I guess depends on what people need/want to do, but don't think Archon is worth the money. Go Kaveh or Construction, and I'd lean toward Construction if at all possible.

 

Villager movement speed is hard to work out value, because you can decrease it a lot with good storehouses, and there are several carry capacity techs that help too. So don't expect villager movement speed to be something to improve with gear, we just need to play better

For Caravans, I've gathered some data and done some graphs, but need to look at it some more and do more testing, probably won't get around to it too soon. But two quick pieces of info from it, caravans work out better than villagers for gold once they are getting about 40gold per trip, and to really max value you need to hit the optimal distance pretty close, don't want to overshoot it or undershoot it by much. This is just for pve, haven't gathered numbers in champion mode yet.

 

Added those notes to elephants, and will a better pass again in future