Calculating required beakers

[William Keenan]

Has the formula for tech research been worked out?

[Sten Sture]

Kind of.

There is an old thread called "A list of Data" by Caesar the Great where someone eventually got a formula worked out to be something like tech calc = M[(a+1)*(b+1)*r] where M is the map size, a is the incremental advance number, b is a derivative of the advance number and r is adjusted dependant on how far ahead you are.

Not really much help, I am afraid, other than to show that it is a squares sum and not exponential - whereas civ growth is exponential. So eventually you will get a tech cascade, if you play the game effectively.

[William Keenan]

Thanks Sten. That helps alot.

[Venger]

That formula looks like what I was seeing, BUT...where the hell does the tech paradigm fit in??? Arrggh...

Boy figuring that formula must have been a *****...

Anyone have a disassembler?

Venger

[Sten Sture]

Cross link to the affiliated ToT thread...
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum29/H...tml?date=17:58

I can only assume from the ToT posts that the tech paradigm is an additional calculation like the M that is outside of the basic (a+1)*(b+1) since it doesn't appear to change the eventual flattening nature of the results curve.

I can't remember my math terms, but there is a name for a parabolic curve that is increasing at a decreasing rate... sorry, I periodically attended calc at 8:00 in the morning 15 years ago.

[The Mad Viking]

Asymptote, or Asymptotal curve, IIRC. 20 years for me, so ICBM. (I could be mistakend, not intercontinental...)