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William Keenan

Prince

New Jersey, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
Sep 1999
time: 00:12

30-04-2000 06:47

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Calculating required beakers

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Has the formula for tech research been worked out?

Sten Sture

Emperor

SF, CA don't call it frisco... Striker!!
Mar 1999
time: 21:12

01-05-2000 22:21

#2

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Kind of.

There is an old thread called "A list of Data" by Caesar the Great where someone eventually got a formula worked out to be something like tech calc = M[(a+1)*(b+1)*r] where M is the map size, a is the incremental advance number, b is a derivative of the advance number and r is adjusted dependant on how far ahead you are.

Not really much help, I am afraid, other than to show that it is a squares sum and not exponential - whereas civ growth is exponential. So eventually you will get a tech cascade, if you play the game effectively.

William Keenan

Prince

New Jersey, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
Sep 1999
time: 00:12

03-05-2000 00:52

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Thanks Sten. That helps alot.

Venger

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Keeper of the Can-O'Whoopass
Jan 1970
time: 23:12

03-05-2000 08:40

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That formula looks like what I was seeing, BUT...where the hell does the tech paradigm fit in??? Arrggh...

Boy figuring that formula must have been a *****...

Anyone have a disassembler?

Venger

Sten Sture

Emperor

SF, CA don't call it frisco... Striker!!
Mar 1999
time: 21:12

04-05-2000 22:10

#5

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Cross link to the affiliated ToT thread...
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum29/...html?date=17:58

I can only assume from the ToT posts that the tech paradigm is an additional calculation like the M that is outside of the basic (a+1)*(b+1) since it doesn't appear to change the eventual flattening nature of the results curve.

I can't remember my math terms, but there is a name for a parabolic curve that is increasing at a decreasing rate... sorry, I periodically attended calc at 8:00 in the morning 15 years ago.

The Mad Viking

King

of the Great White North
Feb 2000
time: 05:12

06-05-2000 09:23

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Asymptote, or Asymptotal curve, IIRC. 20 years for me, so ICBM. (I could be mistakend, not intercontinental...)

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