[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by TranscendentJedi:
BeenAssimilated and I have recently decided, that to simultate the nOnlinear rising costs of new technology, especially for top-of-the-line equitment such as that used in research facilites, to use a system of compound interest for computing the costs and benifits for most facilities (possibly components). If anyone has any suggestions on this please respon.
Suicide Junkie, I assume that you are still working on the tech gridder (Version .50), and so I suggest, that if you think this is a good idea, to add a fourth option for finding the cost of components. I don't think we will be using the advanced naming system because of time and computational constraints (plus the fact that it would take forever to research) and cap everything at level XX or lower.

The multiply factor is compound interest style.

For techs with only one dimension the complex and simple naming schemes are the same.
1,2,3,4,5 ...

For the second dimension, the complex scheme names them
1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, etc
While simple schemes add them together to get:
2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, and 6 respectively.

Duplicated names in the components or facilities file are perfectly OK, but duplicates in the techarea.txt will cause serious referencing problems.