Info: Diplomats and Spies

[SlowThinker]

Try to research "writing", then go to city screen, search a "build" button and choose "diplomat"

[TCO]

I admire your pursuit of logical heirarchies. You could really improve their usefulness if you used some tricks like indentation, headings, etc. Just categorizing things in a mathematical manner is not sufficient.

As written, your thread is not user-friendly and the hard work you've done is going to waste...

[SlowThinker]

Post 40
GP,
IMHO the result wouldn't make up for the effort.

But I may not to be able to imagine your idea. Can you be more concrete? Or can you adjust a part of Post 1?

(A better thread for such kind of a debate is "Great Library Discussion"
[This message has been edited by SlowThinker (edited April 21, 2001).]

[Mixam]

Post 41
The formula for bribing cities can be simplified some:

GR = S*(G+1000)/(D+3)

GR = Gold Required
G = gold of civ that is bribed
D = the distance between dip/spy and the capital of civ that is bribed

No need to have extra variables added in for no reason

In response to post 42 below: This is your formula just rearanged and in this formula if gold = 0 you can tell it has "no effect as you say" because if it is 0 G can simply be removed. If G is removed then
GR = S*1000/(D+3) or in your terms GR = S*DF where DF is distance factor.
[This message has been edited by Mixam (edited May 03, 2001).]

[SlowThinker]

Post 42
Mixam,
I agree that your formula is more simple.

But my formula makes things more clever IMHO, it is useful to highlight "gold" part of the formula and "distance" part:
if "gold of civ that is bribed" = 0 then "gold factor"´= 1 (i.e. gold factor has no effect)

[This message has been edited by SlowThinker (edited May 03, 2001).]

[SlowThinker]

Post 43
Mixam, I noticed your editing just now.

Anyway, a
"something * gold factor * distance factor"
form is very functional IMHO

[SlowThinker]

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