Every puppetted city adds 5% to each tech cost bug

[phillipwyllie]

If you hover over the science thing at the top right you will see at the bottom some text that tells you that each puppeted city adds 5% to each tech cost. I've noticed that it prolly should say each city you own(puppeted or otherwise). You can verify this when you found your first city and pick your first tech. Right-click it and see the base cost in the civpedia and compare it to the actual cost. Annexing your puppeted citys does nothing to the tech cost.

I was wondering if its a bug in the text or a bug in the game(ie the devs only wanted to add the extra cost for puppeted citys and not every city you control).

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

No a bug. The tech cost increases based on the number of cities you own.. wether you control them or not.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

I think the complaint being made is that the tool-tip isn't correct because it says "each puppeted city", implying that annexing the puppet should remove the 5%. The mechanic itself includes any city you own puppeted or otherwise, but the tool-tip doesn't describe it clearly in this instance.

I haven't checked the tool-tip myself so just going by what the OP wrote.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

The tooltip says as follows :

Each City or Puppet City you own increases Technology Cost by X%.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Yeah seems pretty straightforward to me as well!

So where does OP see a different too-tip to this?

 

[phillipwyllie]

lol, I must be playing this game too much

I've just re-read the tooltip and you're all right. Mods please delete this.