Climate Control Facility ?

[Drake]

I think conditions might improve by actual percentages instead of increasing the condition by that percent (like value does), so that the worse off you are to begin with, the longer it'll take to improve.

I didn't spend a lot of time testing this, but I basically improved a planet until it was the lowest level in the mild Category, then checked to see what it took to improve it again to good.

If I had 10 CC3s, it would change in one year. 9 CC3 and a CC2 wouldn't do it, which suggested a 30% range. However, if I built 6 CC3s, then on the turn after the improvements kicked in I scrapped 3 of them and built 1 CC1, it improved to good the next year. That only added up to 6*3 (year 1) + 3*3 + 3*1 (year 2) = 18+10 = 28... My guess is the first increase was 18%, and the second increase was 10% of the lowest mild value, plus 10% of 18%, or 1.8%, for 18+10+1.8 = 29.8 or 30% rounded.

This would explain why it could take a very long time increasing some of the poorer condition planets.

Anyone else interested in checking this out more thoroughly, to see if the theory does indeed hold true?

[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 09 March 2001).]