RCP and Conquests

[alexman]

Okay, my copy of the game finally arrived (never again going through Amazon).

From some initial tests it looks like RCP was fixed in a very strange way: all cities in the ring still get the same rank, only this time it's the worst rank instead of the best! So basically you have to avoid placing your cities in a ring now?

Also, the FP seems to increase OCN corruption now!
WTF?

Still testing for exact numbers...

[Catt]

Originally posted by alexman
Okay, my copy of the game finally arrived (never again going through Amazon).

From some initial tests it looks like RCP was fixed in a very strange way: all cities in the ring still get the same rank, only this time it's the worst rank instead of the best!

So basically you have to avoid placing your cities in a ring now?

Also, the FP seems to increase OCN corruption now!
WTF?

Still testing for exact numbers...

Please do test -- I am experiencing what I believe is much higher corruption than in PTW, even though I know they increased the OCN and theoretically lowered corruption in the game. I had assumed that I and others "inadvertantly enjoyed" limited RCP effects in prior versions and that the RCP fix accounted for my anecdotal view (from one game ) that I was experiencing much greater corruption than expected. If the RCP "fix" and / or FP bug accounts for it, well that's another kettle of fish . . .

Catt

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by alexman
Okay, my copy of the game finally arrived (never again going through Amazon).

From some initial tests it looks like RCP was fixed in a very strange way: all cities in the ring still get the same rank, only this time it's the worst rank instead of the best! So basically you have to avoid placing your cities in a ring now?

Also, the FP seems to increase OCN corruption now!
WTF?

Still testing for exact numbers...

Mine arrives tomorrow, at least I hope it does.

I was hoping you'd do all the hard work again fleshing out the formulae. However, it pains me to see that they may have jumped from one set of flawed rank calculations to another. Keep us posted.

[alexman]

I posted my findings in the Conquests forum.
Crazy stuff!

[DrSpike]

I am not so bothered that my copy isn't here now............man that is dumb.

[vmxa1]

Thanks for the work alexman, it is depressing none the less.

[alva]

Great work Alex , this took you what? a full day to discover?

You are getting slow in your old age, aren't you.