Originally posted by Dauphin
The scaling would have to be just right, or all you do is lengthen the early game and the later game less so.
This is because your empire will be more mature (more city improvements, number of cities, tile improvements etc) by the time you get to certain tech levels, and a more mature empire will take less time to research a tech. So tripling all tech costs may triple research times in the ancient era, but only double it in the medieval/industrial, and only increase by half in the modern era.
Tech cost scaling needs to be more exponential than linear is my point I suppose.
The scaling would have to be just right, or all you do is lengthen the early game and the later game less so.
This is because your empire will be more mature (more city improvements, number of cities, tile improvements etc) by the time you get to certain tech levels, and a more mature empire will take less time to research a tech. So tripling all tech costs may triple research times in the ancient era, but only double it in the medieval/industrial, and only increase by half in the modern era.
Tech cost scaling needs to be more exponential than linear is my point I suppose.
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