On 14.01.2013 16:06, Russell Steinthal wrote: > OK. Since the scouting percentages seem somewhat more likely to be > game independent, I'll start with that on my next game. > > Documenting the Monarch's taxing behavior seems like a much more > complicated exercise, since I assume it depends on variables like how > frequently you trade with Europe, what goods you trade, etc. But I'll > see what I can do. > > Is there any reason to believe that taxation is affected by nation, > e.g. that the King of England taxes differently than the King of > France? I don't recall that from the original game and don't know > that it would be a good idea from a game balance perspective, but it > would be good to be able to eliminate at least one variable from the > equation...
I haven't checked, but I think it probable that the Dutch were not as heavily taxed with regard to their trade in Europe, since trading is their national advantage. Regards Michael > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org > <mailto:mp...@computer.org>> wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:58:45 AM Russell Steinthal wrote: > > So as mentioned on the list a week or two ago, I do in fact have > a set of > > working Col1 disks and now that I have a $20 USB 3.5" floppy > drive, I have > > Col1 working under DosBox emulation. > > Already with effect. Now that we have confirmation of the correct > behaviour, I > coded up a fix for BR#1513 at lunch time today. Should be in > trunk Real Soon > Now. > > > Several of them (e.g. #1554 and #1903) request quantitative > information on > > the AI behavior of the Col1 engine (in those cases, scouting > probabilities > > and taxation, respectively). I'll try to keep notes in my next > test game, > > but a threshold question is which Col1 difficulty level we're > trying to > > emulate? > > Unfortunately: all of them. OTOH, given we often have either no > information > or disputed information, we are happy to get anything reasonably > clear that > can guide the coding direction. > > Cheers, > Mike Pope > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
