(6-13b) Great Merchant Bulb Based On Gross GPT, But With Lowered Multipliers

[azum4roll]

Counterproposal of:

(6-13) Great Merchants Make Their Money On Gross Gold Per Turn

Current Proposed Rationale Great Merchant's Instant Gold from Trade/Diplomatic Missions Great Merchants generate 5 Turns worth of their Origin Civilization's Net Gold Per Turn + Instant Gold within that interval. Each Town adds +25% of this amount of Gold generated. Great Merchants generate 3...

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(6-13a) Great Merchant Gold Based On Net Gold, But With A Minimum Amount

Counterproposal to Great Merchant Makes Their Money On Gross Gold Per Turn Proposal: Great Merchants gold yields are calculated as 5 Turns of (Net Gold per Turn + Instant Gold Yields), but at minimum 200 Gold, scaling with era. This value is increased by 25% for each town. Rationale: This...

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Problem:
The numbers in the original proposal are too high. Gross GPT is way higher than net GPT most of the time. Changing the multiplier from 50% to 30% won't cut it.

My proposal:

	Current	Proposed
Great Merchant's Instant Gold from Trade Missions	Great Merchants generate 50% of the last 10 turns of net GPT + instant Gold generated. Each owned and self-built Town adds +25% of this amount of Gold generated.	Great Merchants generate 20% of the last 10 turns of gross GPT + instant Gold generated. Each owned and self-built Town adds +20% of this amount of Gold generated.
Great Merchant's WLTKD from Trade Missions	Great Merchant grants 5 Turns of WLTKD in every City. Each owned and self-built Town adds +25% of this, or 1.25 turns, rounded down. Duration scales with game speed.	Great Merchant grants 5 Turns of WLTKD in every City. Each owned and self-built Town adds +20% of this, or 1 turn. Duration scales with game speed.

Modify "owned and self-built" accordingly if this proposal or any of its counterproposals pass.

Scope: DLL + database + text update

 

[Rekk]

For added clarity:

Great Merchant's WLTKD from Trade Missions

Great Merchant grants 5 Turns of WLTKD in every City. Each owned and self-built Town adds +25% of this, or 1.25 turns, rounded down. Duration scales with game speed.

Great Merchant grants 5 Turns of WLTKD in every City. Each owned and self-built Town adds +20% of this, or 1 turn. Duration scales with game speed.

 

[azum4roll]

I sponsor this.

Looks like yield history is only used by Great People bulbs, so this is simple as replacing CalculateBaseNetGoldTimes100 with CalculateGrossGoldTimes100.
Note to self: also include the empire-wide anarchy check.

 

[Rekk]

I would prefer to sponsor this, and it would proposal off your stack. I'm also extremely familiar with this code.

 

[Stalker0]

MAGI: Locked. This thread is being absorbed into the master voting thread.

 

[Recursive]

Timestamp post to arrange all the threads in a neat order.