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Re: tech swap and research costs

Sun, 23 April 2006 13:39

NingunOtro

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That situation you depict is very plausible, it depends on whether you are actually researching the same tech field that you are using the scrapper for, and of the way in which the scrapping tech level gains are implemented.

If, as I would logically expect, gaining one tech level means you get exactly the amount of resources needed to reach the next level, then it is useful to do so when you have not yet invested any resources of your own, because you will be given them anyway, and instead invest any surplus in some other field. But if gaining one tech level means you get the total amount of resources needed to reach such level from point 0 of the previous one, then of course what you had already invested in the lower level will overflow in the next one and not be wasted.

It all depends on what technique Stars! uses to count the levels when it says it counts levels, as the controversy around given MT Trader tech levels show. Are you given a certain amount of tech levels, or are you given a certain amount of resources that get you as many tech levels as your particular situation can buy you with?

Further, if you happen to be investigating the same field as you are scrapping, the scrapping happens before the investigation, and so, considering also the previous paragraph, you could be raised to the next level by the scrapping and apply the amount of research you do on top of that instead of on top of your previous investigation level.

There are many factors at work simultaneously that can interact in different ways. It is our job to combine them in the most favourable way.

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