Do the Religious Shrines work?

[PsychoTechFreak]

Bump.

[PvK]

I admit I didn't read the whole thread, but I am curious about this. Wouldn't it make sense though to mod the shrines so they have a high value, before running the test?

PvK

[PsychoTechFreak]

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Originally posted by PvK:
Wouldn't it make sense though to mod the shrines so they have a high value, before running the test?

PvK

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Exactly, Mark has run the tests with modded shrines, +100 and -100 instead of the existing -30?

The odd thing about it is this:

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.



It seems that, once you have built a shrine, the rules are set, even if you scrap the facility later on and build the counterpart, +100 instead of -100. And the value -100 does not mean it would avoid 100% of the events.

Edit: This seems to be the interesting part of it:

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?



[ 22 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[Skulky]

IIRC the neg values dont'work but that might be just me also you shoudl do a control to see if a system without a bad shrine has the same number of bad events as one with a bad shrine.

Whatever im trying to concentrate on school rite now (argh i can't stand trig)

[tesco samoa]

Mark did you ever finish your tests ???

[PsychoTechFreak]

I guess this would be a good task for a longterm simulation, with MB's Batch program. I think about some modded settings and data files to accelerate the creation of results, plus the events log for players turned on.

Any ideas to accelerate the statistics ?

[PvK]

You could do ten-world starts with eighteen empires, with six of them building good shrines, six of them building bad shrines, and six of them not building shrines...

PvK