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  • research anomaly???

    hey. here's a question for all the civ experts. The other day i was messing around, doing some experimentation, and witnessed something kinda odd regarding research rates and beaker counts.

    Iwas researching Fuedalism, in a Monarchy and was producing 38 beakers per turn for a research rate of 13 turns. The following turn my beakers increased to 40 due to the addition of a library, but my research rate jumped to 15. The next turn I added another library, bumping my labs to 43, and the rate increased again to 16 turns!!!

    Weirdola, man.

    Anyone know anything about this? I'm guessingthere a pretty complicated equation when it come to figuring beaker counts, and I recall reading somewhere that the more civs that have researched the tech, the cheaper it is.

    Anyway, food for thought for some folks....old school for others.
    "you better shape up, tiger, or some hotshot jap pilot is gonna flame your ass!"

  • #2
    A number of possible explanations - the most likely is that you swapped techs, tipped techs from huts, captured/stole techs each turn - the cost for each tech increases as you get more so that would be one possiblility.
    A more arcane possiblility is that you moved position on the power graph and therefore changed 'key civ' to a less advanced tribe - your tech costs are directly related to how your number of techs compare to those of another 'key civ' - if you are supreme this is the Purple civ etc ...
    Does this help??

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    "One of our Scouse Gits is missing." - -Jrabbit

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    • #3
      nah....wasn't any of the first possibilities. probably changed position on the power graph as I was behind in the tech race to begin with. I just thought it was interesting and wondered if there was some kind of hard coded equation that would be good to know about.
      "you better shape up, tiger, or some hotshot jap pilot is gonna flame your ass!"

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      • #4
        err....read the GL thread...answered all questions. so this can be buried.
        "you better shape up, tiger, or some hotshot jap pilot is gonna flame your ass!"

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        • #5
          One more satisfied customer

          SG[1]
          "Our words are backed by empty wine bottles! - SG(2)
          "One of our Scouse Gits is missing." - -Jrabbit

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          • #6
            lol...SG[1]
            amazing how much a little effort can yield
            "you better shape up, tiger, or some hotshot jap pilot is gonna flame your ass!"

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