Research Methodology

[therother]

Not a topic for the faint of attention-span...

Are you going for the "Understatement of the Day" award or what!

I know there are a few around here who are doing some serious research into the SP game's mechanics.

I suppose I qualify then...

1. Economy, on the other hand, is proving a tough new nut. There's building upgrades, port/road upgrades, squalor, Trade Rights agreements, blockades & brigand-age... but there must be others because those five don't explain the number's I'm coming up with. Diplomacy is the one I'm focused on, and the same problem applies there.

A lot of patience, repetition, observation, then theorising on the data, predicting an unknown result, then testing to see if your prediction is accurate. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Much the same as any scientific investigation.

2. How do you limit the environmental variables that MIGHT be influencing your data?

Modding, use of RomeShell, editing memory addresses, and basically anything my fiendish imagination can come up with!

It that the sort of thing you were looking for?