City Development Question

[btaft]

A quick question on how the city improvements are applied (banks, libraries, etc.)

Are these tied directly to the tax sliders, ie. if I have research really low are libraries, colleges, etc for most part useless aside from their cultural value.

Is the same also true for banks, marketplaces, etc or is their effect tied to the commerce and not the net tax after research.

Are the effects cummulative, i.e I normally produce 100 science points, I build a library now I produce 150 science points, then I build a university and my science points is now 225.... or would the effect be 200 where the % increase is off of the base 100.

Any insite is appreciated

 

[smackster]

The gain is calculated after the slider % calculation. So if you generate 100 beakers in a city, and set science to 10%, you'll get 10 beakers of science, and a library would make that 15. Not counting corruption of course.

 

[viper275]

I'm pretty sure it's yes to all. With Libraries, in, say, a No Research variant game you wouldn't want Libraries unless you wanted culture (whatever is spent on science is 50% more, so if it's at 0 that's nothing, even with 50% bonus.) I think banks are the same, but Marketplaces are different. You get extra happy faces for the amount of luxuries you have, nothing connected to the luxury slider. Yes, the effects should be cumulative.

 

[punkbass2000]

"Are the effects cummulative, i.e I normally produce 100 science points, I build a library now I produce 150 science points, then I build a university and my science points is now 225.... or would the effect be 200 where the % increase is off of the base 100."

200. It increases your science boost from 50% to 100%. A research lab would make it 250 at 150%.

 

[Dragonsbain]

You get extra happy faces for the amount of luxuries you have, nothing connected to the luxury slider. Yes, the effects should be cumulative.

Are you sure I always thought that the marketplace als worked with the lux slider a.i. if you get two lux frome the slider the maket would increase total lux in a city?

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Are you sure I always thought that the marketplace als worked with the lux slider a.i. if you get two lux frome the slider the maket would increase total lux in a city?

The marketplace works independently of the slider. You get a bonus # of happy faces for each # of luxuries you have:

If you have 3 luxuries, instead of 3 happy faces, you get 4. If you have all 8 luxuries, you get 20 happy faces!! And on top of that, it gives a +50% boost in your cities' tax rate. It's a great buy.

 

[Dragonsbain]

thanks I get it now