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puppet posted 06-09-99 07:08 PM ET
I was recently paying more attention to the way SMAC is calculating commerce while the game was slowing down terribly. I found that the amount of energy in the city screen is not the same as the amount calculated in the budget screen for that city. Further, the income reported as commerce income is not added to your energy reserves at the beginning of your turn. Thus I am seeing no advantage from commerce with the other factions (other than the modest increase in the score calculation). Is this a known problem or am I misinterpreting what commerce should be doing?
Mongoose posted 06-10-99 02:17 PM ET
Puppet - Energy from commerce should be included in the base screen. Add up the energy from worked tiles, energy bearing supply crawlers and orbital power transmitters. Add the energy from commerce. This should be the raw energy produced from the base (before loss due to inefficiency) The amount net of inefficiecy loss is then subject to your energy allocation as per the SE screen. Each sub-category (economy, labs, psyche) is then subject to modification determined by base improvements, specialists, etc. The resulting economy amount is the left number for the base on the energy screen detail, the right number is the maintenence cost for the improvements therein. The net is also shown.
There is something I'm forgetting...
VictorK reported a few weeks back that the higher difficulty levels err in calculating maintenence expenses. Topic: Maintenance cost always halved at Transcend difficulty (bug or intended?)
That's all I can remember now. Anyone else?
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Author	Topic: Commerce calculations
puppet	posted 06-09-99 07:08 PM ET I was recently paying more attention to the way SMAC is calculating commerce while the game was slowing down terribly. I found that the amount of energy in the city screen is not the same as the amount calculated in the budget screen for that city. Further, the income reported as commerce income is not added to your energy reserves at the beginning of your turn. Thus I am seeing no advantage from commerce with the other factions (other than the modest increase in the score calculation). Is this a known problem or am I misinterpreting what commerce should be doing?
Mongoose	posted 06-10-99 02:17 PM ET Puppet - Energy from commerce should be included in the base screen. Add up the energy from worked tiles, energy bearing supply crawlers and orbital power transmitters. Add the energy from commerce. This should be the raw energy produced from the base (before loss due to inefficiency) The amount net of inefficiecy loss is then subject to your energy allocation as per the SE screen. Each sub-category (economy, labs, psyche) is then subject to modification determined by base improvements, specialists, etc. The resulting economy amount is the left number for the base on the energy screen detail, the right number is the maintenence cost for the improvements therein. The net is also shown. There is something I'm forgetting... VictorK reported a few weeks back that the higher difficulty levels err in calculating maintenence expenses. Topic: Maintenance cost always halved at Transcend difficulty (bug or intended?) That's all I can remember now. Anyone else?