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Originally posted by Triumvir Emphy:
A lot of times a bonus is listed as a seperate line item under ability even though they are additive, sometimes they have the wrong sign infront of them,...
merchant +5% to maintenance???
if you take a 20% bonus on maintenance you would expect to pay 1/5th less maintenance cost, not so. you pay 25% maintenance on ships, and you subtract 20% bonus, you only pay 5% maintenance on your ship.
the only way to check is to start a dummy game and do a little calculating to see what happened.
Aw Ha..
That explains why when I tested a race with 80% maintenance it did so poorly. I was getting 125% - 80% = 45 % maintenance costs. In 3 months the maintenance costs exceed the original costs!
If I change the game parameter to be 10% maintenance and take 120% will I get resources having ships? (110% - 120% = -10%)?
Has Malfador heard of something called division?
25% / .80 = 31% (first example)
10% / 1.2 = 8.3% (second example)
[This message has been edited by Commander G (edited 15 February 2001).]