Some Basic Experiments with Economy

**therother** · 10-20-2004, 04:15

Just tried it for Por (2117)(592)(40)(28)

Distance = 50.73724008
PO% = 39.54482987 = 40%

Makes me feel a lot happier to see all this work out from other numbers generated from a completely separate game. I've always been a little worried about all the dubious things I've been doing to mine...

**therother** · 10-20-2004, 06:27

All right, so you want a equation for % corruption in terms of % Distance to Capital:

Corruption % ~= ((0.7935*%DtC)-1.2248)/1.0537

**Quietus** · 10-20-2004, 11:06

Yeah, I didn't know where else to get a distance value to study corruption (hehe). I'm pretty sure I'll use your finely generated equations! However, what I really wanted is to be able to read all those Icons and make formulas out of those. Why? Because, knowing how CA uses the Icons can potentially spill into reading the other icons, such as economic ones.

One other example is unrest. I always get 15% unrest, but where does CA get this value?

Then, I've read what JeROME said of the culture penalties, however, he was fuzzy about unrest. So, I will continue to do tests on unrest.

Anyway, I'm not able to do economic tests yet (aside from how rebels affected trades affected sea exports and land trade but not sea imports, in the old trade disruption thread). Will start testing on it soon.

Keep on testing everyone!

**therother** · 10-20-2004, 11:10

Originally Posted by Quietus

One other example is unrest. I always get 15% unrest, but where does CA get this value?

Then, I've read what JeROME said of the culture penalties, however, he was fuzzy about unrest. So, I will continue to do tests on unrest.

The only other thing I can think of is checking your Governor's traits/retinue. Some of them cause unrest.

**RedKnight** · 10-20-2004, 20:51

tr, there's been a bunch of numbers flying back and forth - if you could clarify -

for your "corruption percent" equation,

the percent corruption is a percent of total income for the city, right? (everything on the plus line of income including e.g. administratiive, and nothing on the negative side?)

what was your correlation coefficient for the regression line?

in summary, it's very clear that it's only related to distance, yes? (barring governor's corruption retinue or traits)

thanks!!

**therother** · 10-20-2004, 21:38

Originally Posted by RedKnight

for your "corruption percent" equation,

the percent corruption is a percent of total income for the city, right? (everything on the plus line of income including e.g. administratiive, and nothing on the negative side?)

Hmm, I've never had a Governor in the city to see if added anything. Should be quite straightforward to take a raw Governor a with either just management ability, or one that you could give a management endowing retinue character to, and have no other effects on income/corruption.

But yes, all the other incomes added together, with no deductions - gross income.

Originally Posted by RedKnight

what was your correlation coefficient for the regression line?

All the coefficients are on their respective graphs.

Originally Posted by RedKnight

in summary, it's very clear that it's only related to distance, yes? (barring governor's corruption retinue or traits)

AFAICT, that's is indeed the deal.