I've expressed many times before my views in the powergraph. I think it can be a bullcrap measureand in single player games you can even employ "playing possum" strategies where the AI will take pity on you and be very friendly before that magic turn when you finally proberape the AI and then cash your AAs and begin a popboom. The fact that in one such turn you can go from looking weak in the graph to a dominant overlord highlights how very little it actually measures factional strenghths.
All that said, a current PBEM has me curious how the various things actually work in those little displays.
I am the Hive and according to the various categories, I lead in pop and tech while a mixture of folks lead in other categories. Both the bar graph and line graph show my faction with a slight but discernable lead BUT for some reason the Cycon leads in the "overall".
category. (No one has built a secret project yet)
I can understand easily how a faction can lead "overall" even if they lead NONE of the individual categories. But I wondered at the lack of linkage between the graphs and the "overall" lead. I would have thought that the overall leader would be what is reflected in those graphs.
Since this linkage was absent, I wondered
1. is it just a timing thing as to when the respective things are updated?
2. Do they actually measure different things?
As I said, I think these measures are bullcrap in measuring real factional strength but manipulating them can have real impacts on how the AI reacts to you, so I am trying to understand them better
All that said, a current PBEM has me curious how the various things actually work in those little displays.
I am the Hive and according to the various categories, I lead in pop and tech while a mixture of folks lead in other categories. Both the bar graph and line graph show my faction with a slight but discernable lead BUT for some reason the Cycon leads in the "overall".
category. (No one has built a secret project yet)
I can understand easily how a faction can lead "overall" even if they lead NONE of the individual categories. But I wondered at the lack of linkage between the graphs and the "overall" lead. I would have thought that the overall leader would be what is reflected in those graphs.
Since this linkage was absent, I wondered
1. is it just a timing thing as to when the respective things are updated?
2. Do they actually measure different things?
As I said, I think these measures are bullcrap in measuring real factional strength but manipulating them can have real impacts on how the AI reacts to you, so I am trying to understand them better
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