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DaveMcW
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After weeks of testing I have found the exact palace jump formula.
When the capital city is razed or abandonned, each city in the empire scores
- 1 point for each of your citizens
- 1/3 point for each foreign citizen
- 1/3 point for every neighbor town (1-6)
- 2/3 point for every neighbor city (7-12)
- 1 point for every neighbor metropolis (13+)
The city with the most points is the new capital!
Only your civ's cities within 8 squares (a 17x17 area) count as neighbors. The old capital does not count at all.
If there is a tie for the most points, the palace jumps to the first city in the database, which is usually the oldest city. After some old cities have been razed the database gets out of order and it's impossible to tell where the palace will go in a tie.
(Edit: Now takes foreign citizens into account)
(Edit2: Now takes cities and metropoli into account)
Last edited by DaveMcW on 24-08-2003 at 22:12
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Dominae
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Very nice formula to know. Thanks for putting in the time and effort (weeks?!?). I assume you tested for effects of Culture as well? If so, it is really quite surprising that it has no effect (from personal experience, not from a game design perspective).
Dominae
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DaveMcW
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quote:
Originally posted by Dominae
I assume you tested for effects of Culture as well? If so, it is really quite surprising that it has no effect (from personal experience, not from a game design perspective). |
Yes, most of the work was eliminating things that have no effect like culture, distance from old palace, and continents.
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DaveMcW
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Do you have an autosave before you lost Paris?
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Dominae
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Whatever happened with Hurricane's counter-example? Does the formula need revision after all?
Dominae
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theNiceOne
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The formula certainly needs revision, since we have an example of where the formula doesn't predict the palace jumpå correctly. It may be that cities originally founded by another civ are treated differently.
From DaveMcW's post it didn't look like he had tried with cities founded by other civs - only with foreign citizens, so it may easily be that foreign-founded cities have a lower priority.
I hope you find the anser Dave.
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Artifex
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Kentucky USA
Apr 2002
time: 05:26
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I was thinking that foreign pop in your city doesn't count or is reduced for the calculation. My city had about half forigners in it..I added a bunch of captured settlers to bring it up to 11.
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HolyWarrior
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quote:
Originally posted by Hurricane
Yeah, here it is. Note that is it at the beginning of my own turn, so you need to move some units into Orleans, otherwise it will be captured before Paris. In this case, however, Avignon becomes the new capital.
Maybe the fact that Zimbabwe isn't originally French has something to do with it? Zimbabwe has only 1 french citizen, while Orleans and Avignon both only have French citizens? |
Hurricane, that's it right there. According to the formula, foreigners only count 1/3. So if Zimbabwe has only 1 French citizen, then instead of counting pop 11, it would only count 1+10/3=4 1/3. That would be enough to knock Zimbabwe out of the running.
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12-03-2003 23:21
Great job! Thank you!
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