Land purchase costs

[King Irwin]

Can someone tell me what the formula is for calculating land purchase costs? Or at a minimum, are there any "land jumps" like there are for infrastructure costs? It has been a long time since I've bought land, and I can't remember how to determine the costs. Thanks!

[Viluin]

Whatever it is, it's [b]way too expensive[/b].

There's a land calculator floating around somewhere.. so obviously someone has figured it out.

Edited February 22, 2010 by Viluin

[Baldr]

http://www.cn-utilities.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=LandCalculator.aspx

I've only bought land when I was getting a "Your population is way too crowded" warning. It hasn't come up often, at least for me.

[azidhak]

I remember when I passed 1000 miles of land, there was a jump. But I do't know the formula..

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[King Irwin]

Thanks...that calculator was exactly what I needed! (the link worked fine for me, azidhak)

This confirmed what I was afraid of...there is an absurdly large jump at 8000. I'm at the point where infra is no longer profitable, and I just got an event that reduced the price of land, so I thought it would be a good time to stock up. But I've just managed to acquire enough land to put me over 8000, and with the price going up by over 1/3, I'll have to reconsider whether it's even worth it.

[King Irwin]

In case anyone else is wondering, it looks like there are jumps at 20, 30, 60, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 800, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 8000.

If I reverse engineered Syzygy's equations properly, it comes out as:
L>8000: L*$75 + $400 (~36% jump)
L>4000: L*$55 + $400 (~22% jump)
L>3000: L*$45 + $400 (~12% jump)
L>2000: L*$40 + $400 (~14% jump)
L>1200: L*$35 + $400 (~16% jump)
L>800: L*$30 + $400 (~20% jump)
L>500: L*$25 + $400 (~24% jump)
L>400: L*$20 + $400 (~31% jump)
L>300: L*$15 + $400 (~44% jump)
L>250: L*$10 + $400 (~76% jump)
L>200: L*$5 + $400 (~27% jump)
L>150: L*$3.5 + $400 (~9% jump)
L>100: L*$3 + $400 (~8% jump)
L>60: L*$2.5 + $400 (~6% jump)
L>30: L*$2 + $400 (~4% jump)
L>20: L*$1.5 + $400 (~8% jump)
L<20: $400

[Fizzydog]

Off topic, but from now on put these kind of questions in the "Question box", as this clutters up the game discussion forum.

Thank you.