Again, it's a completely imperfect formula that is perfectly perfect for the casual player. Just square root of your land goal divided by two. It's an easy formula to remember and works on all servers. Even if you are all X to 22.5k on team 75 BPT is objectively the move. And since that's just a super easy formula, I even use it for my techers and everything. The formula itself has never let me down.

It's not perfect but it's better than doing on hour of math to come up with something in the same neighborhood.

My method to 500k land is I go on 600 farms to about 100 BPT, then build 1 turn of buildings and 8 turns of CS. I rotate that to 350 BPT (around 100k). And I've done about 1.5b on FFO and 1.1 on Rep Casher at 500k without helper countries so I know I was at least in the same ballpark of enshula's server record. Kind of hard for me to tell because I've never not gotten suicided ever on this server, but I assume that's top end ballpark based on my projections.