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

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jason Short wrote:

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> Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
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>>I propose that
>> - doubling researchcost after a given date is made a ruleset option,
>>defaulting to off (now it doubles at year 1)
>> - a new researchcost option is added, which is researchcost * no. tech
>>dependencies * sqrt(no. tech dependencies), and this is made default.
>> - researchcost is set to 5 (now 10)
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> This sounds reasonable.  But if different techs take different amounts 
> of time to research the GUI will have to change.  The science dialogs's 
> "3 turns/discovery" text will have to go, and be replaced by the number 
> of turns to reach each specific tech in the list.

  I don't have anything against making improvements to this, but this "3 
turns/discovery" text should already reflect time to finish _selected_ 
research (I'm not sure if window is always correctly refreshed, though). 
We already have techs with different costs. We might have 
tech_cost_style != 0 and even when tech_cost_style == 0 current research 
might be cheaper than alternatives (alternatives are subject to techpenalty)


  - Caz