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Topic: Construction Research optimazation

In my research tab it says: "cheaper buildings and units". With this topic I will prove there is a point at which extra contruction bonus will make your buildings more expensive. Say what??!!? You heard it right, MORE expensive.

suppose you have:
5 Million NW
a freshly explored planet
240 million research points in construction

The 240 million research points will give you a contruct bonus of 38,12%
The 5 million NW will result in 500% extra size cost.
The CF will cost you 110GC*500%/(1+38,12%) = 398,2 GC on the new planet.

This feels expensive.... Lets research some more.

We add 480 million research point. Which will result in:
5.480 million NW (extra NW due to research points)
720 million research points
a contruct bonus of 73,12%
538% size costs
The CF will now cost 348,2 GC

This feels expensive.... Lets research some more.

We add another 480 million research point. Which will result in:
5.960 million NW (extra NW due to research points)
1200 million research points
a contruct bonus of 86,65%
596% size costs
The CF will now cost 351,2 GC.........


My key message, at some point research points will add so much to your NW it will no longer make buildings cheaper. When doing infra jumps at high NW you might want to stop researching (construction) all together.


Note, a high contruction % will always make units cheaper.

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Re: Construction Research optimazation

Interesting!  And so we learn a bit every day...

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Re: Construction Research optimazation

Can't you conclude that the less expensive fleet building will compensate and even gain resources?

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4 Reply by LiGhTGuNs (edited by LiGhTGuNs 14-Jul-2015 19:53:13)

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Re: Construction Research optimazation

No, that is very situation dependent. The key thing here is time.

Suppose my example is about an attacker that is building planets for his banker and they have planned for a EOR war in 5 days.

Suppose his banker makes 15 Million GC / tick (awesome banker smile ). In 5 days he will generate 5*24*15 = 1800 Million GC. That is enough GC for 16,5 Million Fighters (remember the 38% construct bonus to start with).

If he invest everying thing in research there will be no GC left for fleet building after 5 days. He will have an awesome construction bonus of above 90% though smile

If he invests 480 Mil GC into research he will get up to 73,12% construction. This this will leave him 1800 - 480 = 1320 million GC, which he can now use to make 15,2 million fighs.

In this example we can conclude that the attacker can built less fighs and gets 480K additional NW that makes him less effective in attacking.

Note: these limits to science start to get very dominant above 2 - 3 Million NW.



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