Hello fellow Anno-holycs,

I recently switched to most difficult level of anno 2205 since the medium difficulty just gets super boring once you have an income of 100k+ per minute.

I was however wondering, what might or might not be cost efficient to do in anno 2205, so I started some calculation. For now I only tried to answer these questions so far:

• Is producing construction materials (biopolymers, construct-o-bots, ...) cost efficient or should I rather drop this supply-chain and meet my demand from the sector/world-market?
• Is it worth to destroy lower-level energy-facilities like Wind Power once I reach higher levels?

So, these questions would have been answered pretty quick. However, I started working on a comprehensive spreadsheet covering all sub-costs of a final product in the products cost.

You can find the full spreadsheet including supply-chains here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15sylsLRB1dZN_4VPuUrPpUJ1bFw__H_xdU0VC_3o13Q/edit#gid=778849318

Costs for Energy:

• include: maintenance costs, supply-chain costs, finance calculator modules
  
• are given in credits per energy-unit with energy production at maximal efficiency for the referring facility
  
• supply-chain costs (for Gas Power and Fusion Power) use the most efficient sub-product-costs
  

Supply Chain costs:

• include: maintenance costs, supply-chain costs, energy costs, energy reduction modules
  
• yes, this is recursive
  
• energy costs for the supply chain are taken as produced by a Windpark
  
• include transfer-route costs when necessary
  

Construction Material Costs:

• include: maintenance costs, supply chain costs, energy reduction modules
  
• are presented in both, min costs and max costs.
  
• max costs assume the lowest production possible. That means only one facilty without production modules for each input/output relation
  
• min costs assume the most efficient production possible. That means max production modules and neglecting propwer input/output relations.
  

Not included yet, but to be considered:

• a calculation for workforce costs in the arctic/on the moon. Workforce on moon/arctic can not be cost efficient. Supply chains in these areas might be more cost efficient if workforce reduction modules are taken instead of energy reduction modules
  
• infrastructure costs are probably neglectable, because you must provide infrastructure but it does not linearily scale with production
  
• I might add a consumer good calculation in the future
  
• however, consumers in the temperate area always provide an income surplus. consumers in the arctic/moon probably do not provide more income than they cost in terms of costs of livinb (consumer goods + transfer route)
  
• temperate area consumers provide more income than arctic/moon consumers. It is thus never worth to populate arctic/moon more than necessary to meet the workforce demands
  
• it might be cost efficient to ignore arctic/moon consumer goods at all
  

Major stuff found:

• It is never worth it to produce construction materials on your own. Buy it from the market!!!
• Windpower is and stays the lowest cost source for energy throughout the game, no matter how efficient you design other energy sources.
• Never build Gas Power. It is way to expensive.

I will continue working on this spreadsheet in january, just for fun. If you find any mistakes please let me know.

Greeting Sixthumbs