Polisurgist
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Is the formula for how much food is required to reach x population available anywhere? I figure it's in the code but I'm not quite up to snuff to go digging for it, and hoped someone knew.
Food Math?
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The formula is Food Required for Pop N+1 (where N is your current pop) = 15 + 8*(N-1) + (N-1)^1.5 (rounded down to the nearest whole integer).
So, for N=1 (food required to get to N+1 pop (2 pop)), it's just 15 food. For N=2 (to get to 3 pop), it's 24 food. For N=3 (for 4 pop), it's 33 food. For N=4 (for 5 pop), it's 44 food. Etc.
Don't have immediate access to a spreadsheet program, or I would post a more complete listing. Perhaps an enterprising forum member might take care of that....
As an aside, vanilla originally provided for a "6" in the second element of the formula, but the exponent in the last piece was "1.8", which generally made for lower food requirements early in the game and higher requirements later in the game.
So, for N=1 (food required to get to N+1 pop (2 pop)), it's just 15 food. For N=2 (to get to 3 pop), it's 24 food. For N=3 (for 4 pop), it's 33 food. For N=4 (for 5 pop), it's 44 food. Etc.
Don't have immediate access to a spreadsheet program, or I would post a more complete listing. Perhaps an enterprising forum member might take care of that....
As an aside, vanilla originally provided for a "6" in the second element of the formula, but the exponent in the last piece was "1.8", which generally made for lower food requirements early in the game and higher requirements later in the game.
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