Zombie69 said:
No, the maximum is 1 beaker per turn per city. With many cities, this really adds up.
Nope, nope. Given that I tested this before I posted, and just now to make sure I'm not crazy, makes me stick to my guns. I am afraid you are the one who is wrong, oh sophmoricly sexual zombie.
Here is the test.
Start up a new game on Noble. Settle your first city, crack open the world builder.
Give yourself a pile of gold, so you can run 100% science for a few turns.
Give yourself another city. Give both your cities five or six population points. Give both cities a Library and University and Globe Theater. Throw down a few farms, dot the landscape with a variety of evolved cottages. Quit out of the builder.
Arrange your citizens in your two cities such that they produe an even number of commerce. In my case, it was 24 (+50% = 36 beakers) and 10 (+50% = 15 beakers). This means that, according to that filthy lying Domestic Advisor, I should be producing 51 beakers per turn.
If
only.
So, pick a tech you want to test on -- one that has zero beakers in it already. Hit 'next turn'. Mouse over the science bar at the top of the screen to find out how many beakers you
actually produced -- in my case it was 61.
Right.
Now arrange your citizens in your two cities so that they make an ODD number of commerce, one greater than the turn before. In this case it was 25 (+50% = 37.5 beakers) and 11 (+50% = 16.5 beakers).
Again, that lying pigdog of a Domestic Advisor says I should be making 53 beakers per turn. I should have him shot.
Hit next turn. Pick a new tech or stay on the one you have. Either way, note you have made +1 beaker from the fractional addition from each city. I made 64, rather than 63.
In short -- that tiny fraction of a half or quarter-beaker is only rounded down AFTER all your tech from all your cities are summed. This means that all this dancing about with the science slider can only, at very best, net you a single beaker every turn.
Which elicits a huge yawn from me. Yeah, maybe it can make a difference after 300 turns or so... but then you're only talking about maybe 200 beakers, at a time when techs cost 8000 or more.
If you can devise a test to show that you are in fact correct, please elaborate. But until then, I stand by the above assertion.
- Bill
-- edit -- botched a few transcriptions. Corrected.