OOC: The Rules

[Squeblish Nef?]

I don't get it...

[Mr. President]

So your effective population is the last column. And when you pass the population range in the first column, you add the effective increase in the fourth column.

eg. For a listed population of under 250e6 your effective population is the range up to 25e6. When your listed population passes 250e6, you add 83.3e6 and your effective population is the range up to 108.3e6.

[GeneralTacticus]

I don't get it either, and I fail to see how it simplifies anything as opposed to my proposal.

[Squeblish Nef?]

Besides, it doesn't really lessen the larger nations' advantage.

[Flinx]

I did exactly what Rasputin did:

0-250 mil /10
250-500 mil /3
500 mil – 1 bil /5
1 bil – 2 bil /2
2 bil – 3 bil /6
3 bil + /8

for example a population of 2.53 bill = 250mil/10 + 250mil/3 + 500mil/5 + 1bil/2 + 530mil/6 = 796.6 Mil a more realistic number

[Squeblish Nef?]

Originally posted by Flinx
I did exactly what Rasputin did

'Nuff sed.

Nobody actually agreed with Raspie, and, besides, the increments are too large.

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
I don't get it either, and I fail to see how it simplifies anything as opposed to my proposal.

I thought it was rather similar to your proposal . . . ?

[Kuciwalker]

A much simpler mechanism is to just raise the populations to some fractional power (and then multiply by a constant, probably, too, to make the numbers realistic).

[Flinx]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
No, that's not it. The idea is that you divide the population up into segments of whatever, say 100 million. You then divide the first segment by, say, 2, the second one by 3, the third one by 4, etc. Thus someone with 100 million people would be considered to have 50 million, while someone with 200 million would be consider to have 83 million, someone with 400 million to have 108 million, etc.

EDIT: Now that I look at it, you almost had it, you just didn't express it very well.

NS Pop	Divisor	Modified Pop
100,000,000	2	50,000,000
200,000,000	3	83,333,333
300,000,000	4	108,333,333
400,000,000	5	128,333,333
500,000,000	6	145,000,000
600,000,000	7	159,285,714
700,000,000	8	171,785,714
800,000,000	9	182,896,825
900,000,000	10	192,896,825
1,000,000,000	11	201,987,734
1,100,000,000	12	210,321,068
1,200,000,000	13	218,013,376
1,300,000,000	14	225,156,233
1,400,000,000	15	231,822,899
1,500,000,000	16	238,072,899
1,600,000,000	17	243,955,252
1,700,000,000	18	249,510,808
1,800,000,000	19	254,773,966
1,900,000,000	20	259,773,966
2,000,000,000	21	264,535,870
2,100,000,000	22	269,081,325
2,200,000,000	23	273,429,151
2,300,000,000	24	277,595,818
2,400,000,000	25	281,595,818
2,500,000,000	26	285,441,972
2,600,000,000	27	289,145,675
2,700,000,000	28	292,717,104
2,800,000,000	29	296,165,380
2,900,000,000	30	299,498,713
3,000,000,000	31	302,724,520
3,100,000,000	32	305,849,520
3,200,000,000	33	308,879,823
3,300,000,000	34	311,820,999
3,400,000,000	35	314,678,142
3,500,000,000	36	317,455,920
3,600,000,000	37	320,158,622
3,700,000,000	38	322,790,201
3,800,000,000	39	325,354,304
3,900,000,000	40	327,854,304
4,000,000,000	41	330,293,328

[Kuciwalker]

Why all the space between the quote and the table?

[Flinx]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
A much simpler mechanism is to just raise the populations to some fractional power (and then multiply by a constant, probably, too, to make the numbers realistic).

Indeed!

sqrt(NS Pop) * 5500 gives almost identical numbers to the numbers suggested by GeneralTacticus (above) and is much simpler to calculate.

[Flinx]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why all the space between the quote and the table?

That is what happens when you use HTML, I have no idea why, always has.

[Kuciwalker]

Weird...

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Flinx


Indeed!

sqrt(NS Pop) * 5500 gives almost identical numbers to the numbers suggested by GeneralTacticus (above) and is much simpler to calculate.

That would be okay to me.

Opinions, anyone?

[GeneralTacticus]

Looks good to me.