Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

Sad news to all you religious fans in space, Fate Shrines appear to have no helping effect. Test scenario as follows. One possible event, planet value change by one per cent, to display the event frequency directly with home planet values. Event frequency set to 50, means the usually high value has been doubled. Results after 20 years, BTW no events have occured during the first 2 years, with every of the following tests. Seems to be a period of peace within the first 20 turns.

Results:
without Fate Shrine, 91 events
with FS set to minus 1,000 result was 85 events
repeated FS minus 1,000 result was 82 events, Mmmh, tiny effects ? Obviously not,
with FS set to minus 10,000 result was 96 events
with FS set to plus 200, 91 events
with FS set to minus 200, 100 events

PvK, I guess we should talk about our Proportions PBW with events frequency set to medium, or what do you think ?

Edit: With event frequency medium (unmodded), I get 22 events within the 200 turns.

And, somebody might be worried about the high values, with an unmodded FS 3 , I have got 95 events within the 200 turns, with event frequency set to 50, test scenario as seen above.

[ 24 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]</p>

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

Guess what I have tried next, advanced trait - cursed, 10 times the chance for bad events, I think the results should be better kept as my little secret. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

PvK, please check PM for test results.

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

As I said on the first page (for those not reading back): <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> IMO, the Fate Shrines' Happiness bonus is far more useful than the events protection, whether the latter works or not. <hr></blockquote>And the Happiness bonus definitely does work.

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by capnq:
As I said on the first page (for those not reading back): And the Happiness bonus definitely does work.<hr></blockquote>

That is true, but it is just worth 75 points in your race setup, characteristics-happiness, 3 per cent up.

[ 24 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]</p>

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> it is just worth 75 points in your race setup, characteristics-happiness, 3 per cent up. <hr></blockquote>I don't think that's the same thing.

A Fate Shrine acts like a system wide Urban Pacification Center; it will eventually push the planets to Jubilant and keep them there.

I think a racial bonus to happiness just changes the boundaries where the levels start.

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by capnq:
it will eventually push the planets to Jubilant and keep them there.

I think a racial bonus to happiness just changes the boundaries where the levels start.<hr></blockquote>

Interesting, sometimes it looks like a kind of startup bonus, other times not, I think this would be hard to prove since you do not know if you are at the edge between Happy and Jubilant. I did not always see a push to a higher level happiness immediately, sometimes it takes a while.

Re: Do the Religious Shrines work?
 

Sorry I never did get to finish these tests... but I shall...

In summary as I left it, I was left thinking that *possibly* one world out of my 10-world setp was somehow immune to events, anyway...

I'll try this again sometime, as noted I was using a single event and a heavy weight on the f12 key.