More than a weak tendency?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Nice thourough test there. It looks like the money still needs to be turned down though. Not much deminishing expansion for the large empires. Good to see you doing so much testing though. I tested for a couple decades and got bored. I hope you can find some sort of balance in your dynamic money injections. Do share your future finds. I, for one am interested.

[QwertyMIDX]

The Ptols seem to be doing well in two of those 3 campaigns, in the 3rd they routed the SE, and in the first they're holding their own pretty well and seem to be kicking some ass towards the later years there.

[Eminos]

The Ptols seem to be doing well in two of those 3 campaigns, in the 3rd they routed the SE, and in the first they're holding their own pretty well and seem to be kicking some ass towards the later years there.

Hi. Well these pictures don't tell the full story. It was only in the second test that the Ptolies were doing great, almost too well. In test 1 they were definitely going down, even though it seems as they are expanding a little on these pictures. Ok, they had a chance in this one to bounce back thanks to the Baktrians in the other end of the AS empire. That I can't tell, but the AS were mighty and the overall impression was that the Baktrian expansion was soon to be stopped. Well maybe not since the AI is quite stupid when it comes to determining priorities. In test 3 it is quite obvious that the Ptolies will be eliminated soon, taking the map and graphs into account. In this test I saw some hope once again in the form of Baktrians, but this time they were stopped quite early. On top of that, as I said, I had two campaigns before these that were the reason for me even starting to think of a "balance problem". In those two it looked as in test 3. The Ptolies sucked.

Nice thourough test there. It looks like the money still needs to be turned down though. Not much deminishing expansion for the large empires. Good to see you doing so much testing though. I tested for a couple decades and got bored. I hope you can find some sort of balance in your dynamic money injections. Do share your future finds. I, for one am interested.

I'll have to stress that all these tests were done with the original background script, i.e. with 1200 Mnai for every settlement every turn (no step function). I felt that I had to go back and get some more weight behind the "feeling" that AS will crush the Ptolies maybe 8 to 10 times out of ten if you use the standard script. In my test campaign with the "step function approach" I can give you the example below. I don't know yet if it will work as I wanted it to if I do another test and another and ...., but I think it looks promising so far. Then comes the tedious work of fine tuning a suitable step function for every faction, or maybe a little less elaborate, every faction group as you suggested.

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[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I'll have to stress that all these tests were done with the original background script, i.e. with 1200 Mnai for every settlement every turn (no step function).

Oops, sorry. My quick reading gets me again.