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Do you really understand how the AI fixes the Price of a Luxury in a Trade Deal ?
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The reason being why the AI charges you more money the more luxuries you already posses is precisely for the number of happy faces it produces. The AI knows this and prices it in the luxury it is selling you.
With the economies of scale produced by the improvement in a city "marketplace" which boosts the amount of citizens that are happy in the 7th and 8th luxury (I recall it's 4 workers each that are happy for the 7th and 8th, just check out any game in the city screen). The more luxs you have with a marketplace the happiness increases not geometrically but exponentially. See the instructions manual of C3C.
The more happy citizens within your empire the shield output is increased, your revenue is now greater because there are now more people willing to join the job market (working new tiles), so now you even get more cash from taxes, you can allocate more cash to research, the cities now grow at a faster pace because more tiles are being worked on, your score is now higher (look at the histograph and you will see it factors in the amount of happy and content citizens in your Empire). Plus such happiness triggers WLKD which in turn reduces that disgusting corruption in your cities thus increasing your income AND SO ON...The AI knows all this and that is precisely why it charges you all the more the more luxuries you have. The 7th and 8th luxury you acquire for your Empire are going to be the dearest financially.
Just play around with the luxuries and research slabs before and after trade dealings and you will see IT DOES make a difference, no matter how small it might be.
If you adjust the lux slab putting it higher up BEFORE the trade (buying a luxury) with AI, the AI will value it at less money BECAUSE the new luxury it is selling you does not produce you so much happy faces as the AI expected, thus pricing the luxury it is selling you at a lower price.
Once the deal is over you readjust the lux slab lowering it, because now with the new lux avilable in your marketplaces there is no need to spend as much money as before in lux.
Basically what you do is a "happiness engineering" in your slabs BEFORE the trading deal of the new luxury you are purchasing so the AI puts a lower value to it, you then readjust the slabs to the new situation, saving yourself euros. Enjoy !
Criticism and comments are most welcome. (Aqualung71 I expect a post from you
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"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"
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The reason being why the AI charges you more money the more luxuries you already posses is precisely for the number of happy faces it produces. The AI knows this and prices it in the luxury it is selling you.
With the economies of scale produced by the improvement in a city "marketplace" which boosts the amount of citizens that are happy in the 7th and 8th luxury (I recall it's 4 workers each that are happy for the 7th and 8th, just check out any game in the city screen). The more luxs you have with a marketplace the happiness increases not geometrically but exponentially. See the instructions manual of C3C.
The more happy citizens within your empire the shield output is increased, your revenue is now greater because there are now more people willing to join the job market (working new tiles), so now you even get more cash from taxes, you can allocate more cash to research, the cities now grow at a faster pace because more tiles are being worked on, your score is now higher (look at the histograph and you will see it factors in the amount of happy and content citizens in your Empire). Plus such happiness triggers WLKD which in turn reduces that disgusting corruption in your cities thus increasing your income AND SO ON...The AI knows all this and that is precisely why it charges you all the more the more luxuries you have. The 7th and 8th luxury you acquire for your Empire are going to be the dearest financially.
Just play around with the luxuries and research slabs before and after trade dealings and you will see IT DOES make a difference, no matter how small it might be.
If you adjust the lux slab putting it higher up BEFORE the trade (buying a luxury) with AI, the AI will value it at less money BECAUSE the new luxury it is selling you does not produce you so much happy faces as the AI expected, thus pricing the luxury it is selling you at a lower price.
Once the deal is over you readjust the lux slab lowering it, because now with the new lux avilable in your marketplaces there is no need to spend as much money as before in lux.
Basically what you do is a "happiness engineering" in your slabs BEFORE the trading deal of the new luxury you are purchasing so the AI puts a lower value to it, you then readjust the slabs to the new situation, saving yourself euros. Enjoy !
Criticism and comments are most welcome. (Aqualung71 I expect a post from you
)"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"
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