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I'm having a problem understanding how some of the starting stats work (or maybe they are buggy):
Economics: With 0 economics I get 12 income/turn (quality 20 planet) on the first turn with the tax rate at 33%. With 50% economics (20 from government, 30 from max economics) I find I got 13 income/turn with the tax rate at 33%. I would have expected to get 18 income/turn?
Social/Military production: According to the manual, half of the bonus you get from these starting abilities should be free production, but I don't get any free. Which makes these abilities seem largely worthless - just gives you a higher cap for maximum spending but I never find myself reaching the maximum anyhow.
I also checked how much free production I got later in the game with both 0% and 70% social/military production and it was the same in both cases.
Research: This on the other hand you do get free. In fact you seem to get all of it free. At 100% research spending, with 50% government spending I got 12 research on turn 1 with 0% research, and 11(6) research on turn 1 with 50% research.
Economics: With 0 economics I get 12 income/turn (quality 20 planet) on the first turn with the tax rate at 33%. With 50% economics (20 from government, 30 from max economics) I find I got 13 income/turn with the tax rate at 33%. I would have expected to get 18 income/turn?
Social/Military production: According to the manual, half of the bonus you get from these starting abilities should be free production, but I don't get any free. Which makes these abilities seem largely worthless - just gives you a higher cap for maximum spending but I never find myself reaching the maximum anyhow.
I also checked how much free production I got later in the game with both 0% and 70% social/military production and it was the same in both cases.
Research: This on the other hand you do get free. In fact you seem to get all of it free. At 100% research spending, with 50% government spending I got 12 research on turn 1 with 0% research, and 11(6) research on turn 1 with 50% research.