On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:43:18 -0400, no@none.invalid wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:16:21 -0400, no@none.invalid wrote: > >>This is a chart I made using BASIC back in the 90s when I could still >>do math and programming. >>I would like to have a new print out of this chart but I no longer can >>figure out programming or math. >>Anyone care to figure out the pattern and make a new copy of the >>chart? >> >>https://imgur.com/a/thF6U43 > > >I don't remember how I did it. >It is from the game Empire. There is a new version of it on Steam >called Empire Deluxe Combined Edition. >I played the game relentlessly from the 90s until I upgraded to Win7. >The Windows version would not run on Win7. >The cities have production times in multiples of 3 and then you get a >10% bonus if you keep building the same type unit. 100 percent is >never the optimal number but that was a base amount. > >If you are bored the game cost about 18 bucks on Steam and I like to >play multi player. > > >The cities start at a random efficiency amount. If you chose not to >build anything the city efficiency goes up by 1 per turn (until 100; >after 100 city's efficiency takes more than one turn) so you can >prolong production to get a faster build unit later. > >The chart is what turn is the best city amount after the 10% bonus. > >So at a 100 percent the armor takes 12 to build and it drops to 10 >after the first unit is built. So a city at 85% will yield it's >second unit at 12 turns. If you wait until the city is at 87% the >second unit will be built at 11 turns. You have to pump production up >to 96% to get the second unit at 10 turns. > >An infantry takes 6 @ 100% >A destroyer takes 24 @ 100% >A cruiser takes 36 @ 100% >A battleship takes 53 @ 100% < not multiple of 3 ?
Bad number, but they are not all multiples of 3 >A carrier takes 48 @ 100% > > >That is about all I can remember. Here are all the old units and new units from the new game. The chart would be much larger with the new units but I would be happy with just the old numbers. https://imgur.com/a/6mFRaNc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
