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				 Re: SE5 progress 
 
	Great to hear from you, Aaron!Quote: 
	
		| Originally posted by Malfador Machinations: So instead of those pesky Inc Per Level fields, we would now have formulas to come up with the new values. Of course, speed may be an issue, so it will require some performance testing once its in and working (no guarantees that formulas will survive that).
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 I agree that formulas are a must, because diminishing returns of research is very important for playbalance. If you have concerns about the speed, how about parsing the formulas only once, at game setup, creating a table with hard numbers and save them to a file? In times where a Gigabyte more or less is not an issue, it is always a good idea to trade disk space for processing time if in need.
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