City Upkeep Astronomical

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Several games that I have played so far have suddenly had the city upkeep costs shoot up into hundreds and hundreds per turn.  Usually this happens right after starting a new city, but sometimes it happens for no reason I can find at all.  This last game I was just playing that upkeep jumped from about 30 per turn to 720.  I went broke pretty quick after that and all my armies deserted.  I'm not even really sure how the city upkeep thing works, am I missing something that tells the upkeep of buildings and whatnot?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There's a bug in the upkeep calculation : instead of 0 1 3 6 10 15 21 28 etc... we get 0 1 2 6 24 120 720 etc.. (the upkeeps are multiplied instead of being added)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This game is supposed to be epic. So why not start with (epic) city upkeep? XD

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Do you want to continue the series? :P

Ok go !

0

1

2

6

24

120

720

5 040

40 320

362 880

3 628 800 (for 10 cities O_O)

 

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

LOL! That's nothing. To build one Legion of men takes 127,589 Turns.  

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Lol. Yea, it was supposed to be 7+6+5+4 but it was put in as 7! (7 factorial).

What's worse (for me) is that I was the one who said "Yea, just use the factorial function".  Sleep deprivation.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Since 1 +2 +3 + .. + n = n*(n+1)/2,  the formula that should be used for the upkeep of n cities is n*(n-1)/2

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I guess that's one way to do a "soft cap"...

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

... and with blind war expansion. You just can't go to war without thinking before of the future upkeep.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

 

Quoting vieuxchat, reply 8
... and with blind war expansion. You just can't go to war without thinking before of the future upkeep.
End of vieuxchat's quote

 

Tell me about it! Last night I captured 3 AI cities and immediately went broke. All my military units deserted after a few turns. Then I crashed. :dur:

 

Just PS if the topic interests you there's another thread around here (in the General forum, I think) talking about various approaches to city upkeep.