Originally Posted by
Ceruhe
I got mine mostly sleeping atm but used them as foresters quite frequently along with producing more coal on the 2nd one and switched to all coal later on to some degree. I use it mostly when I want/need(lol...)more resources quickly. Probably the best example to date, BB once had a 1/2 production time on smelters, needless to say without shutting down half your production to be "normal" again, you consumed twice the amount....TO blew up with coal trades, while I was sipping coffee and didn't care because I could comfortably keep full/double production up due to the coal churning the woodyards did do,
Biggest downside to the whole thing are the buffs. You only really have 1 and that's like 8/12h which is a PITA. Also equal amounts of X building will outperform the Yard again, but here is also it's biggest upside....flexibility. You could pretty much rid yourself of Exotic Sawmills after upgrading it (not that I would recommend it giving BBs often retarded way of implementing (new) quests) and switch around when/if needed /shrugs