Research by population?

[DarkHorse]

Would it be possible in SE:V to mod research points so that they are generated by population rather than by facilities?

[Puke]

it would be possible to mod facilities that function based on population level, i think. you could make those facilities basically "free"

[Elsemeravin]

Puke said:
it would be possible to mod facilities that function based on population level, i think. you could make those facilities basically "free"

However then you would need to know a function which returns the population of the planet and is usable from facilities.txt file to add in the amount of the research ability.

Would you know such function ?

[President_Elect_Shang]

I spent some time looking over this one. To make it happen you would need the research ability and the formula you would use would have to call on a manner to count the current population of the planet. Let�s call it Get_Current_Planet_Population. Now once you have that you will need to build it into a series of if statements. Something like this:

iif(Get_Current_Planet_Population() <= 100, 500, iif(Get_Current_Planet_Population() <= 200, 600, 100) and so on and so forth.

Note that I am using multiples of 1 million; so 100 equals 100 million population. You could use a straight formula with a multiplier too; however, I am willing to bet that after some play testing you will prefer the �step� increments that an if statement can give.

A straight formula example:

500 + (Get_Current_Planet_Population() * 50)

So now you need to email Aaron with a request.

[Suicide Junkie]

You could always just make all production proportional to population in settings.txt...

Facilities then represent percentage "focus", rather than explicit factories and such.

[President_Elect_Shang]

I just had a thought. You should be able to adjust the amount of research generated by adding to the Settings.txt as a population modifier. I haven�t tested this yet but I can�t see any reason why it shouldn�t work. This will have no effect on the research facility so it may not produce the results you are looking for. If you want to give it a try open the Settings.txt and do a find for �Number Of Population Modifiers� or just scroll to the very bottom.

[Elsemeravin]

President_Elect_Shang said:


So now you need to email Aaron with a request.

There is a thread in the modding sub forums about the list of variables and functions to ask Aaron so that we can send him a list in one email instead of 30 requests in every direction.

[President_Elect_Shang]

I know; however, that sub-forum was created originally when we requested Mindi to make a place were we could discuss actual moding questions, effects, tips, and tricks not wish lists. A wish list would have been more appropriate here in this forum area.

[Fyron]

President_Elect_Shang said:
You should be able to adjust the amount of research generated by adding to the Settings.txt as a population modifier.

You can't really add new fields to the data files.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Ok I see what you�re saying. For some reason I was thinking I had tweaked something like this in SE4.