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Topic: Calculating required beakers |  |
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William Keenan
b.02-15-99
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posted April 29, 2000 21:47
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Has the formula for tech research been worked out? |
Sten Sture
b.02-15-99
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posted May 01, 2000 13:21
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Kind of.There is an old thread called "A list of Data" by Caesar the Great where someone eventually got a formula worked out to be something like tech calc = M[(a+1)*(b+1)*r] where M is the map size, a is the incremental advance number, b is a derivative of the advance number and r is adjusted dependant on how far ahead you are. Not really much help, I am afraid, other than to show that it is a squares sum and not exponential - whereas civ growth is exponential. So eventually you will get a tech cascade, if you play the game effectively. |
William Keenan
b.02-15-99
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posted May 02, 2000 15:52
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Thanks Sten. That helps alot.
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Venger
b.02-15-99
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posted May 02, 2000 23:40
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That formula looks like what I was seeing, BUT...where the hell does the tech paradigm fit in??? Arrggh...Boy figuring that formula must have been a *****... Anyone have a disassembler? Venger |
Sten Sture
b.02-15-99
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posted May 04, 2000 13:10
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Cross link to the affiliated ToT thread...
../../Forum29/HTML/000727.html?date=17:58 I can only assume from the ToT posts that the tech paradigm is an additional calculation like the M that is outside of the basic (a+1)*(b+1) since it doesn't appear to change the eventual flattening nature of the results curve. I can't remember my math terms, but there is a name for a parabolic curve that is increasing at a decreasing rate... sorry, I periodically attended calc at 8:00 in the morning 15 years ago.  |
The Mad Viking
b.02-15-99
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posted May 05, 2000 12:23
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Asymptote, or Asymptotal curve, IIRC. 20 years for me, so ICBM. (I could be mistakend, not intercontinental...) |
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