Re: Legends: admin engineers and the S28 order

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 06:08:10 +0000

dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick):
>In general, what are the features of a location affect its
>productivity?  All I know of are

>1) SEI (affected by admin engineering actions and guilds)

This is the big one.  Get your admins into the double digits
and put them full time on public works.  Get you guilds as
high as you want them and put them on increasing SEI too,
if you don't need them for something else.

>2) Popsegs which have special production abilities (e.g. mithril axe)
>   make more gold.

A minor effect, though it never hurts to add abilities.  The more
important effect is that the number of crowns produced by each
craftsman increases exponentially with the number of craftsmen.
When you have thousands of craftsmen in one city, this will be in
the 10-20 range, rather than the base 5.

>3) I'm told that guilds also have a "hidden" SEI add - how does
>   this work?  Are there other hidden SEI adds?

I don't believe this is true.  If there's an SEI add, it'll show on your SEI.

>I assume that there is more than this to it, but what else is there?

I don't think there *is* more to it.

>If I add pop to a force and want to do an S28 order to that force, do
>I have to calculate what the new cost will be or can I use the current cost?

You need to pay the correct cost.  However, a) if you enter a higher
figure, only the correct amount will be deducted and b) I was told
by MG that the computer will figure out the correct amount, rather
than make you fail if you write a figure that's too small (but I
can't confirm this personally).

>The formula is apparently (Pop^^1.5)/200 - does this hold for
>all population levels, or are there any discontinuities?  It seems
>that it gets hard to keep this up once you get really large pops
>unless you have a very high level engineer indeed.

It gets expensive, but it's almost always worth it.  Back-of-the-envelope
sample computation:  Suppose you have a population of 16,000, of whom 7,000
are craftsmen, and a 2-action, level-15 administrator.  Each public works
action will cost you about 10,000 crowns, so that's 40,000 crowns per
production.  7,000 craftsmen will produce approximately 15 crowns each,
base rate, so 'normal' production is 100,000 crowns a month.  Four public-
works actions boost that by 60%, to 160,000, so they already more than
pay for themselves.  In addition, half the increase hangs on after each
production, so the equilibrium increase due to this administrator (sum
of series) is 120%, ignoring the fact that some of the public works
actions will result in skill increases.

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Dani Zweig
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The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part,
    to appreciate the Cardinal Number system. -- "Actual Facts"

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Legends: admin engineers and the S28 order
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Sat, 08 Jan 1994 02:01:51 +0000

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Legends: admin engineers and the S28 order
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Sat, 08 Jan 1994 02:01:51 +0000