| Re: Energy at normal / expensive |
Wed, 28 May 2014 16:24   |
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 skoormit |
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Very interesting stuff there.
You are missing one piece of the analysis: the compounding effect of the "resource hit" on the ability to spend equivalent resources in tech.
For example:
With energy cheap, lets say you spend 105 resources in 2400 to get to En3.
With energy normal, you need 210 resources to get to En3. But you don't have that many in year one. Let's say you spend the same 105 as energy cheap did, and you get to en2 and make some progress toward en3.
In 2401, energy cheap has more resources to spend than energy normal.
To get to en3, energy normal has to spend another 105 resources, but that represents a bigger portion of total resources than it would for energy cheap. A 22% bigger portion, in fact. It would be like energy cheap spending 128 resources.
You have to factor in that compounding in order to complete the analysis.
Another way to look at it: you've examined total resource cost implications, but you haven't examined time implications. It may be true that an energy normal race that spends 80040 resources on Energy gets to level 15, while the energy cheap race that spends the same amount gets to level 17. But it's not true that the energy normal race can spend that many resources as soon as the energy cheap race can. When the energy normal race is finishing level 15, the energy cheap race will be farther ahead of it than your current analysis indicates.
You also aren't factoring in the increase in cost due to other techs being researched (5/10/17.5 for every En level for every tech level researched). That's a small effect in the overall analysis, though.
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