Science hit

Ok, several posts make mention of science penalties for number of cities and for puppets. Suppose I'm playing on standard mapsize, and I have 4 cities and 4 puppets. How much of a penalty am I looking at? How do I calculate? Does this mean that as long as your city count is low that your tech rate is higher...until universities?

I'd assume that it means 8 cities x 5% = A 40% increase in tech cost.

EMT said:

I'd assume that it means 8 cities x 5% = A 40% increase in tech cost.

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There is an inherent penalty on the science and culture puppets generate, though I am unaware how much this is. Its a completely different matter of the city science penalty (you pay that with puppets too).

Hmm...does anyone else know the puppet penalties?

No, I haven't even heard of them.