Commy
June 1, 2004, 13:43
I was playing a game as Morgan last night. I build the Planetary Energy grid, so the energy bank in Morgan Industries brought me from 18 energy/economy per turn to 27. Then I built a tree farm. Normally, I'd calculate it as 50% (energy bank) of the original 18, then 50% of the new subtotal with the tree farm, making a grand total of 40 or 41, depending on how the game rounds it. Apparently not.
Instead, I got 36, or 100% or the original 18. So like, is the two bonuses added, or are they like multiplied of eachother? Is it supposed to be this way, or is my game screwed up.
Now that I think of it, how does the game treat all of the percents in combat? I never actually cared until now. So if you are attacking with a speeder in the field, and you have nerve gas pods, are the advantages added, or multiplied together?
Better yet, if you attack a mindworm, and you have -3 planet because of the Free market, are the percents added/subtracted, or are the multiplied? Say you had a unit with a power of 100, then because you attack (say you have empath song), then you get +50%, or power of 150. Now if the -30% was of the new subtotal, then your attack power would be 105, but if 30 was subtracted from 50, then the new percent applied to 100, your attack would be better at 120.
I can never tell since combat always goes too fast. For all you pros out there, how does the game do percents? Because I really don't like getting cheated out of a bunch of energy credits.
By the way (off topic) is this the way it's done in Civ 3?
Instead, I got 36, or 100% or the original 18. So like, is the two bonuses added, or are they like multiplied of eachother? Is it supposed to be this way, or is my game screwed up.
Now that I think of it, how does the game treat all of the percents in combat? I never actually cared until now. So if you are attacking with a speeder in the field, and you have nerve gas pods, are the advantages added, or multiplied together?
Better yet, if you attack a mindworm, and you have -3 planet because of the Free market, are the percents added/subtracted, or are the multiplied? Say you had a unit with a power of 100, then because you attack (say you have empath song), then you get +50%, or power of 150. Now if the -30% was of the new subtotal, then your attack power would be 105, but if 30 was subtracted from 50, then the new percent applied to 100, your attack would be better at 120.
I can never tell since combat always goes too fast. For all you pros out there, how does the game do percents? Because I really don't like getting cheated out of a bunch of energy credits.
By the way (off topic) is this the way it's done in Civ 3?