[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9147) researchcost proposal

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9147 >

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:

> Giving:
> Map Making: new=19 old=30
> Republic or Trade: new=141 old=150
> Navigation: new=713 old=550
> Steam Engine: new=4801 old=2530
> 
> Note that these numbers are for when you are going _directly_ for the
> listed tech, any techs chosen along the way will make the tech more
> expensive under the old tech cost style more; while under the new tech
> cost style, the cost will remain exactly the same.

So research could actually be faster under the new system...

I think looking at the number of dependencies of a tech isn't as 
important as looking at how advanced the tech is.  Civ3 had a 
one-dimensional progression of techs through the stone ages, middle 
ages, industrial ages, modern ages.  Thinking of things in this turn 
some middle-ages techs may have many more prereqs than others, but all 
should require the same (or at least in the same range) of research points.

>>>The above will slow down research in a more graceful way that the doubling
>>>of researchcost after 1AD, and also slow it down a bit in general.

Doubling of researchcost after 1AD is crap.

> If you research Polytheism as your 70th tech, as I did above, then it
> would cost 700 under the tech_cost_style=0 and 30 under tech_cost_style=1.
> It makes quite a difference to techs you delay for long.

What happens if you go through the techs one at a time without any 
specific goals?  Does it take more points under the new system or under 
the old?

jason