Does anyone know the formula SEIV uses to calculate score?

Tomgs · #1 February 8th, 2001, 11:37 AM

Actually I was evil enough to test nature shrines in an earlier game so that I know (no they don't both work but you don't get a warning either). However there is a cheat ( I notified Twingalaxies and Malfadore about this already though

). System Robotoid facilities and Time shrines do stack even though they say they don't. You don't see it on the planetary resource screen (because all system adds are shown on the Empire screen) but if you build both and scrap the time shrines your production goes down. Maybe other overlapping system facilities also do this but I haven't tested any others yet.

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Drake · #2 February 8th, 2001, 04:04 PM

Hmm, I never bothered trying to build the time shrines, I just figured they wouldn't stack, and were inferior to the sys robot fac. I noticed that gestation vats and medical labs don't add the %, so I figured it was working correctly across the board. Doh!

I'm wishing I hadn't gotten religious tech - It's good for an early boost to planet %s, but I'm thinking it was a waste of 1500 points. Ah well.

-Drake

alasyr · #3 February 8th, 2001, 04:14 PM

But nature shrines stack up with planetary value and climate improvement facilities making 0.6/year improvements.

Drake · #4 February 8th, 2001, 04:37 PM

Yeah, that's what I thought the big bonus was as well, but you and I have made an important and incorrect assumption in that reasoning. We say to ourselves, "Well, that effectively doubles the improvement rate, so it's a good deal!"

Thing is, notice what you DON'T see on the info on a planetary eng. facility that you do see with a robotoid facility and the like. No only 1 per planet effective limiter. You can compensate for not having a nature shrine by building 1 extra value facility per planet (and climate, if you care). I play with organics, so the only real benefit from my POV was the +x% to value. Granted, it's very very expensive to build lots of these....

-Drake

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