Some Old Age Tests

[calmon]

Burden of Time is in effect:

1 Turn now represent 1 year (12 Month)
Disease costs 1 Life each MONTH

[NTJedi]

So burden of time now only causes units to age more quickly ?

[curtadams]

This is great, but I agree with Arralen you should do it without BoT. One idea is to set up multiplayer with each race have 100 old folks. More work to set up, but then you can just click through 48 turns once.

[NTJedi]

curtadams said:
This is great, but I agree with Arralen you should do it without BoT. One idea is to set up multiplayer with each race have 100 old folks. More work to set up, but then you can just click through 48 turns once.

I also agree with Arralen where this test should not use Burden of Time since we are not 100% positive no other side effects and different calculations exist with this spell active.

[calmon]

Ok, i remade the Tests 1-3, now without 'burden of time' and the results are different!

All Start in Turn 1 with 100 Philosophers, i checked after each full year (every 12 turns)

Test 1
All with bad scales, Death 3, etc.
Turn 13: 100 Philosophers, 73 non-afflicted
Turn 25: 88 Philosophers, 56 non-afflicted
Turn 37: 75 Philosophers, 38 non-afflicted
Turn 49: 61 Philosophers, 26 non-afflicted
Turn 61: 48 Philosophers, 19 non-afflicted
Turn 73: 44 Philosophers, 14 non-afflicted
Turn 85: 38 Philosophers, 10 non-afflicted
Turn 97: 29 Philosophers, 7 non-afflicted
Turn 109: 22 Philosophers, 6 non-afflicted
Turn 121: 21 Philosophers, 5 non-afflicted

Test 2
All with good scales, Growth 3, etc.
Turn 13: 100 Philosophers, 89 non-afflicted
Turn 25: 95 Philosophers, 72 non-afflicted
Turn 37: 87 Philosophers, 60 non-afflicted
Turn 49: 80 Philosophers, 53 non-afflicted
Turn 61: 73 Philosophers, 43 non-afflicted
Turn 73: 67 Philosophers, 37 non-afflicted
Turn 85: 59 Philosophers, 23 non-afflicted
Turn 97: 51 Philosophers, 17 non-afflicted
Turn 109: 48 Philosophers, 12 non-afflicted
Turn 121: 43 Philosophers, 12 non-afflicted

Test 3
All with neutral scales
Turn 13: 100 Philosophers, 74 non-afflicted
Turn 25: 82 Philosophers, 54 non-afflicted
Turn 37: 74 Philosophers, 40 non-afflicted
Turn 49: 64 Philosophers, 33 non-afflicted
Turn 61: 56 Philosophers, 28 non-afflicted
Turn 73: 50 Philosophers, 24 non-afflicted
Turn 85: 42 Philosophers, 18 non-afflicted
Turn 97: 37 Philosophers, 12 non-afflicted
Turn 109: 31 Philosophers, 7 non-afflicted
Turn 121: 25 Philosophers, 6 non-afflicted

So after 60 Turns (5 years) i completly lost 52 Philosophers with all bad scales, 44 with neutral and just 27 with good Scales.

So it seems 'Burden of Time' gives extra Afflictions in additional to the 1 turn=1 year feature.

[curtadams]

Great info. Age isn't as bad as I would have figured. Anyone care to figure the cost-benefit of philosopher-researchers?

[Agrajag]

curtadams said:
Great info. Age isn't as bad as I would have figured. Anyone care to figure the cost-benefit of philosopher-researchers?

Since we don't have turn-by-turn numbers, its just an approximation, but:
Death 3 got 6412 research turns
Neutral got 6832 research turns
Growth 3 got 8536 research turns
Which means that Growth 3 got ~25% more research done than Neutral.
And also Death 3 got ~7-6% less research done than Neutral.
Final result is Growth 3 bringing in ~33% more research than Death 3.