[NFP] Costly GP

[Lily_Lancer]

I'm testing how expensive a GP can be, and see this (standard speed).

It seems that the GP mechanism changes again in NFP that now it completely follows the world era and stack exponential penalty on GP cost for advanced era GPs.

GP 1 era ahead: +30% cost
GP 2 eras ahead: +156% cost
GP 3 eras ahead: +586% cost
GP 4 eras ahead: +2243% cost

This applies to all GPs, no longer different for 1st/2nd/3rd GP for each era.

Don't rely on GPs for end game.

 

[Equilin]

well at least it becomes easier to understand

Are they cheaper in the same manner if they are from a preceding era as well?

 

[Lily_Lancer]

well at least it becomes easier to understand

Are they cheaper in the same manner if they are from a preceding era as well?

No. A GP's cost is decided when it appears on the recruiting list, and only GPs of the current era or later may appear on that list.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

No. A GP's cost is decided when it appears on the recruiting list, and only GPs of the current era or later may appear on that list.

I think technicall yes, if by some miracle, the game era advances to the next one before all the people are recruited.

But I am really not liking this system, it creates a massive issue when that cost RESETS back down, but doesn't scale people's point (I think it should), which then results in all the era people being recruited in a single turn and causing the issue to happen AGAIN, which often means that the more popular people (namely Scientists) end up recruited before the game EVEN gets a chance to reach an Atomic era.

I hope that the GPP pack that is coming next year will actually fix this issue (I was already working on a mod that doubles the amount of great people per era), includingg adding some Ancient and Future ones)

 

[Minou]

Gross. The late game GP might as well not even exist. I’m always annoyed when an AI recruits the first 3 GS early and the next one is extra expensive but this 100k cost scaling is just stupid.

 

[Uberfrog]

I hope that the GPP pack that is coming next year will actually fix this issue (I was already working on a mod that doubles the amount of great people per era), includingg adding some Ancient and Future ones)

Agreed. I imagine this is part of the reason why they’re adding so many new GP... it would help them fill out the eras a bit more to make Great People more reliable in the early eras.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Agreed. I imagine this is part of the reason why they’re adding so many new GP... it would help them fill out the eras a bit more to make Great People more reliable in the early eras.

Honestly if they merely doubled the amount of GPP per era it could very well balance it out. I was going to mod those in but currently holding onto it until I know more about the pack itself.