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Problem 4. Pop calcuation. Just don't count any population more than 1000 billions - enough to dominate Gigantic/Abudant. Problem 5. Metaverse is penalizing you for submitting low point value games. As has been pointed out before, this is illogical. Fix. Several have been suggested, you could simply sort the scores from highest to lowest and stop calculating the score when the next game would lower the overall score. Scores: 1000,400,400 -> 1

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well i'll post tables on Apolyton tomorrow. Test 3 - 1st part of results Trying to get rid of rounding errors Rev 17 Bonus Tax Eff% 0% 54 10% 51 6% 20% 49 10% 30% 47 15% 40% 45 20% 50% 43 26% More likely that Empire bonus to econ is linear and effectively gives half of it's bonus Revenue=FreeRevenue+TaxRate*PopulationTax*(1+EconBonusFromBuildings)*(1+EmpireBonus/2) ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What the hell??? Insane forum. RealBonus=(53/47)-1=0,127659574 or 12.77% Test 3 Empire bonus + Building bonus [code] Pop 5000 Emp Econ 50% Emp Econ 30% Emp Econ 0% Econ 0% 100% Econ 0% 100% Econ 0% 100% Tax Tax Tax 56% 42 52% 19 54% 17 54% 41 50% 18 51% 16 32 53% 21 47% 17 48% 15 52% 40 33 44% 14 28 51% 20 39 44% 16 32 41% 13 49% 38 31 38% 12 24 48% 19 37 41% 15 30 35% 11 47% 37 29 3

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Edit: bonus 30 RealBonus=(53/>)-1=0,127659574 or 12.77% ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My modem dropped connection and i forgot that i don't posted 2nd test results. Test 2 Empire economy bonus Revenue from population = 10 (I changed taxes to get this result) Bonus 0 Tax 53 Bonus 20 Tax 49 RealBonus=(53/49)-1=0,081632653 or 8.02% RealBonus100=RealBonus*100/Bonus=0,408163265 or 40,82% for bonus 100 Bonus 30 Tax 47 RealBonus=(53/79)-1=0,127659574 or 12.77% RealBonus100=RealBonus*100/Bonus=0,425531915 or

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Economy tests 1) Economy bonus from buildings In test planet population = 1000 Free Revenue is substracted from each number in this table (it was 4 for this planet PQ), so Free Revenue is not affected by economy bonus from buildings. Tax - minimum Tax Rate where Revenue equal to a listed number - say in 1st coloumn revenue from population with tax 52% equal to 9, and with tax 53% revenue from population equal to 10. Econ 0% 100% 200% Tax Rev Rev Rev 0 0

Reply to Hours of trouble-shooting and still won't run in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Also, i don't recommend DirectX9.0 - not all drivers are working good with it for now. ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

--GalCiv excels at this. You can take a player whose never read the manual, never "tested" different options, never studied the math behind the numbers and if they play long enough and are a good strategist they can become the best GalCiv player ever.-- I can say: "No way!". It's just impossible. I know how top players play. In Heroes of Might and Magic 3 competition (best Moscow vs best St. Petersburg players) several months ago i saw how played Moscow player 'Imp' (he's also playing M

Reply to Hours of trouble-shooting and still won't run in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I also heared that w/o one critical bik file game won't start. I'm playing w/o multimedia and still has 3 *.bik files - 'Menu_Open.bik', 'Menu_Starbase01.bik', 'Menu_Starbase02.bik' Try to start a game with these 3 files or at least with first one. ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Valamir 1) So you think that any other designers of strategy games are wrong because they give this information to a players? 2) AI using this information, so why players can't use it? 3) This is not an arcade there 'big sword' is better than 'small sword' and this is all that a player need to know. I don't understand how can you make right decisions w/o knowlege of rules. ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just a thought: it will be hard to win a tech victory because culture victory is on... ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

From my tests http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85148 base income from PQ 15 = 0 16-17 = 2 18-19 = 4 20-22 = 6 24 = 7 It's for a population of 0, it's not affected by taxes (tested) and econ. bonuses (AFAIK) Income from 1000 population with taxes 50% is equal to 9, so it will be 6 for 33% taxes. Just some tips to testers: 1) I'm using transports to change planetary population. Note that in some cases (maybe 1/2 proba

Reply to Late-game Income problems... in Strategies Stardock Forums

To modemboy Well ok my math working only for low bonuses. ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hm i didn't thought about that.Thanks brab_alan. We need some ideas here... ~SDC~

Reply to Late-game Income problems... in Strategies Stardock Forums

Forum is horrible =( - = ( ~SDC~

Reply to Late-game Income problems... in Strategies Stardock Forums

Sorry error in last post 'Bonus' instead of 'BonusModifier' This means that for every 1 bc spent you get 1 non-free 'shield' and a number of free shields equal to FreeBonus/(1+NonFreeBonus)=66,67% / (100%+33,33%)=50%. If you spend 20 bc, you'll get 20+20*(FreeBonus/(1+NonFreeBonus))=20+20*(66,67% / 133,33%)=20+20*50%=30 'shields' This means that you got an additional 50% from your spending for free - this is a 'real' bonus that give you your +100% production starbase bonus

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you are more than just common citizen of your country, if you think that you are a strategy gamer, then join Apolyton empire. We are a community of turn-based strategy gamers from all over the world. Maybe you want to look at our site http://apolyton.net, all our forums http://apolyton.net/forums/index.php?s=, our GalCiv-General http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=174 and GalCiv-Strategy http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=188 forums. ~

Reply to Late-game Income problems... in Strategies Stardock Forums

This means that for every 1 bc spent you get 1 non-free 'shield' and a number of free shields equal to FreeBonusModifier/(1+NonFreeBonusModifier)=66,67% / (1+33,33%)=50%. If you spend 20 bc, you'll get 20+20*(FreeBonusModifier/(1+NonFreeBonusModifier))=20+20*(66,67% / 133,33%)=20+20*50%=30 'shields' This means that you got an additional 50% from your spending for free - this is a 'real' bonus that give you your +100% production starbase bonus in this example. ~SDC~

Reply to Late-game Income problems... in Strategies Stardock Forums

Ok i think it's a chance to improve our startegy skills. ----------------------------------- This is for Military production, same with Social Production / Research -- Sliders SpendRate – Domestic Policy-> Economic -> Spend Rate (Government Expenditures) IncomeDistributionXXX – Domestic Policy-> Economic -> Income Distribution XXX -- Base (before any bonuses) maximum planetary production (after starting new game (w/o production/research bonuses), you se

Reply to Empires: do they attract a 'type'? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I created a MOO clone (but w/o AI) like 7-8 years ago. Turbo Pascal 6.0 , ~113kb source code ;) ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To dikdirk Well ok. ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's mentioned in FAQ->How can I link to my files? In the "View Files" (Upload http://apolyton.net/upload/ -> Click "View" button) page each file name is a link to the file. This is the url (right click and "Copy Link Location"(Mozilla) or "Copy Shortcut"(IE) to copy it) that you can use to link to your file. BE CAREFULL! Files are only accessible if they are linked from page on the Apolyton server. This means that if you want to show the file on another site you must link to

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To dikdirk I can calculate scores etc. but i don't know what do you mean then you said about 'coordination'? ----- To Vorlin Varelse I sould be more clear. You need to upload your savegame and add a reply in this tread http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85972 with a link to a save. ---------- Also, don't post AAR's before competition ends because other players can gain information from them (and this is forbidden). You need

Reply to Do we need tournaments? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Any ideas about scoring? ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well i see that i should post my message here too Uploading is simple - this is tread for our tournament http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85972 This is FAQ about uploading on Apolyton forum http://apolyton.net/forums/misc.php?action=faq&page=12 Just upload your zipped savegame (both .sav file and directory). ~SDC~