Do the Religious Shrines work?

[Mark Walton]

Results:

8 worlds with no shrines received the following results in 200 turns.
world 1 - 6 events
world 2 - 10 events
world 3 - 12 events
world 4 - 15 events
world 5 - 10 events
world 6 - 6 events
world 7 - 15 events
world 8 - 15 events

World with the "bad" shrine: 6 events.

Note, this does not appear to be a significant result; this is the lowest of the shrine-less world results.

World with the "good" shrine: 0 events.

This does appear significant. I will test further, but it seems that a -10,000 value has stopped all events.
As a quick thought, perhaps this is 100ths of a percent - possibly the code turns the value into a percent by dividing by 100, but accidentally does this twice?

More tests at a future date (apologies for delay, I have had flu)

Edit:
To be fair, I ough to test with a -100 value didn't I? That will be the next test

[ 04 December 2001: Message edited by: Mark Walton ]

[Mark Walton]

Results, and confused once more

2nd test ; shrines set to 100 and -100 effect. 200 turns process.

world 1 : 17
world 2 : 10
world 3 : 13
world 4 : 17
world 5 : 12
world 6 : 6
world 7 : 8
world 8 : 9

bad shrine : 8
good shrine : 0

OK so far so good, but then I decided to remove the good shrine, and place a good shrine on another world.

Results ; not detailed but,
the new "good" world was receiving just as many events as before! The previous "good" shrine was reveiving none!!

any ideas?

Edit:
Tried again, and this time I built the shrines the other way round from the start.
My previous good, now bad world... no events. None.

Lucky worlds?

How can I tell for sure? How can I work if there are such factors involved?

I'm going for a little lie down.

[ 04 December 2001: Message edited by: Mark Walton ]

[Mark Walton]

Nobody really cares about this, do they?
I might as well leave it.

[Mephisto]

Well, I care!

[tesco samoa]

IBID.

Mark we just come in here and read the results. When you state your done your testing that is when we will talk about it.

Sorry if I offended you there.

Take care

[Mark Walton]

OK sorry if I sounded grouchy, just wanted to make sure I wasn't just wasting my life (well, that part of it, anyway!)
I'll do a bit more testing later.

[geoschmo]

Solving equations with more than one variable is never easy. You are entitled to a little grouchiness.

Geo