Newbyish question on advances_discovery

[Woreczko]

Would something wrong happen, if I removed condition "capital = yes" for all advances?

I`m feeling, that it`s a bit unfair, that (If I understand mechanics correctly) more capitals within a realm = more advances. It favors creating a county-heavy kingdom. And it`s simply not historical when "scientist" are "working" only in your court. Every province should have a chance to show it`s innovativeness , as advances in the period had usually little to do with a public mecenate.

Just after posting this one, I realized, that it probably should go to event scripting forum. Ah, well... sorry o

 

[Woreczko]

Hello!

Nobody tried to mess with avances_discovery.txt file?

 

[tombom]

*tumbleweed rolls across the screen*

It appears not. I think I once saw a post though where it said that it wasn't a good idea, although it's probably a false memory.

 

[unmerged(21937)]

Well, I guess it's simple maths as you have 900 provinces, but only about 500 capitals or so, the drain on CPU on checking each province instead of capitals would double the drain of discoveries. This as a technical drawback. Of course it would have game balance effects and the effect of again increasing the amount of popups you get with big demesne etc...

 

[Woreczko]

As for popups, I would, of course, increase MTTH for all discoveires (but how much?), so it shouldn`t be a problem. Though, you are probably right about CPU drain. My main concern however, is whether it would work at all. I don`t know if provinces other than capital may also "focus" on certain discovery(it`s one of the conditions).

While we are at MTTHs, don`t you think, that system would work better if we averaged them for all levels or better yet, base them on historical pace of development? It`s not realistic IMHO, that early on you research quite fast and your development get`s progressivly slower, the more advanced you are. Usually it was rather opposite, the world`s progress (I make an arbitrary asumption, that getting new advances = progress, altough it`s debatable) was getting faster and faster (with some notable exceptions of course).

Anyway, I`m leaving tomorrow to actually experience a regression in my development (that is for holidays ), so I won`t experiment with advances file for a while.

 

[unmerged(21937)]

The point in making research slower as you get more advanced is to discourage concentrating on just one advance, I suppose. It's more unrealistic to have France research only Plate Mails for 200 years than that "research-slows-down-as-you-progress".

One country can have only one focus in each techgroup, but it works for all provinces (tech spread has Focus as modifier too).

Also differing MTTHs is pretty much intended thingy as well because some techs are better than others in practice.