BelgiumFury Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) The title explains itself. I don't think anyone cares about whatever amount of money behind the decimal point. Will some people gain and some people lose resources?; yes, but the rules will be the same for everyone and the playing field will be equal. This is actually an extension to this: "@" in depositing to the alliance bank + trading (QoL) - Game Suggestions - Politics & War Forum (politicsandwar.com) post I made. Because this proposal might be a lot easier if we round up numbers. (for example what if someone has 25,000.7 aluminium and sells down to @20000, we can't sell .7 of a resource..) This is however a different post because it touches on a completly diffrent thing and people might have reasons to support one and oppose the other. ~~Belgium Edited January 5, 2021 by BelgiumFury 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prefontaine Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Problem lies in that resources are calculated to 2 decimal points. Mines produce 0.25 per mine, per turn. Effectively is someone had only 1 or 2 mines of that type (depending on which way you round at .5) they might be gaining nothing. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgiumFury Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 5 minutes ago, Prefontaine said: Problem lies in that resources are calculated to 2 decimal points. Mines produce 0.25 per mine, per turn. Effectively is someone had only 1 or 2 mines of that type (depending on which way you round at .5) they might be gaining nothing. This makes complete sense. The other option would be to make that .7 aluminium useable. Trade offers would have a minimum size of 1 (as is today) but if you want to dump all your aluminium you would be able to dump your 25,000.7 aluminium on themarket? I don't think it is optimal but it might be the best way to account of the issue you stated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua-Corpsman Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Or maybe the system could be redone, and we can just move the decimal point to the right. I understand that there would be some repercussions, like inflation, but what do you think @BelgiumFury? Quote To whom it may concern, I do not represent The Immortals unless explicitly stated (ergo, never.)<--- I hardly use the forums anymore, add me on discord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgiumFury Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Aqua-Corpsman said: Or maybe the system could be redone, and we can just move the decimal point to the right. I understand that there would be some repercussions, like inflation, but what do you think @BelgiumFury? That's indeed what I tought originally but then resulted to not actually act upon. Both projects and mines would have to be rebalanced to an extreme amount that would make inflation hyperbolic. Unless ofcourse we raise prices (in this case if a mine makes 4 iron instead of one, everything should go times 4 in cost), this would however cause its own issues in the short term. I think these might be mediated by doing the price changes gradually over the time span of a few months (a multiplier which slowly in a linear way ticks up every turn). The problem is that someone would have to do all the maths on this and alliances (or people) that have money in store will very duped. Then we would still have projects that boost production, which would have to change too. I however think there is a relatively easy fix for them (I will take the ironworks as example). "This project will give you (5*0.27*12 = 16.2, rounded off that would be 16) 16 steel per city with 5 steel mills every day change." This would nerf the project sligtly, but I must assume that most people with steel mills have 5 steel mills in their cities, if this is not the case however they would not hagve to but this project (aka it would not affect everyone if they didn't want it too). I am usually not in favor of nerfing things that people payed for but projects like ironworks are very cheap and every serious nation has an econ project. I don't think increasing inflation times 4 is a good idea, and I don't think rebalancing the costs with it is very easy or would be very much appreciated. Edited January 5, 2021 by BelgiumFury 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua-Corpsman Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 1 minute ago, BelgiumFury said: That's indeed what I tought originally but then resulted to not actually act upon. Botj projects and mines would have to be rebalanced to an extreme amount that would make inflation hyperbolic. Unless ofcourse we raise prices (in this case if a mine makes 4 iron instead of one, everything should go times 4 in cost), this would however cause its own issues in the short term. I think these might be mediated by doing the price changes gradually over the time span of a few months (a multiplier which slowly in a linear way ticks up every turn). The problem is that someone would have to do all the maths on this and alliances (or people) that have money in store will very duped. Then we would still have projects that boost production, which would have to change too. I however think there is a relatively easy fix for them (I will take the ironworks as example). "This project will give you (5*0.27*12 = 16.2, rounded off that would be 16) 16 steel per city with 5 steel mills every day change." This would nerf the project sligtly, but I must assume that most people with steel mills have 5 steel mills in their cities, if this is not the case however they would not hagve to but this project (aka it would not affect everyone if they didn't want it too). I am usually not in favor of nerfing things that people payed for but projects like ironworks are very cheap and every serious nation has an econ project. I don't think increasing inflation times 4 is a good idea, and I don't think rebalancing the costs with it is very easy or would be very much appreciated. Right, well said. Worth putting it out there though. Quote To whom it may concern, I do not represent The Immortals unless explicitly stated (ergo, never.)<--- I hardly use the forums anymore, add me on discord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliteCanada Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 On 1/5/2021 at 9:12 AM, Prefontaine said: Problem lies in that resources are calculated to 2 decimal points. Mines produce 0.25 per mine, per turn. Effectively is someone had only 1 or 2 mines of that type (depending on which way you round at .5) they might be gaining nothing. How about giving the option to destroy your own resources, at least to the nearest whole number? When I don't use oil it's a minor pet peeve to see the 0.50 exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arawra Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, EliteCanada said: How about giving the option to destroy your own resources, at least to the nearest whole number? When I don't use oil it's a minor pet peeve to see the 0.50 exist. At that point, depositing the excess decimals into the bank works fine. Edited January 7, 2021 by Hime-sama 1 2 Quote Look up to the sky above~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayayay Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 It's entirely possible to effectively multiply all the numbers in the game by 100 by simply removing the decimal point from everything. There wouldn't be any real changes to the game except all the numbers would be bigger than before. 1 1 Quote Orbis Wars | CSI: UPN | B I G O O F | PW Expert Has Nerve To Tell You How To Run Your Own Goddamn Alliance | Occupy Wall Street | Sheepy Sings TheNG - My favorite part is when Steve suggests DEIC might have done something remotely successful, then gets massively shit on for proposing such a stupid idea. On 1/4/2016 at 6:37 PM, Sheepy said: This was !@#$ing gold. 10/10 possibly my favorite post on these forums yet. Sheepy said: I'm retarded, you win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightside Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 The current system is fine and there is literally no reason to change it. Maybe round the display down to the nearest integer while keeping track of the true number but there is no reason to change the true number. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prefontaine Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 16 hours ago, lightside said: Maybe round the display down to the nearest integer while keeping track of the true number but there is no reason to change the true number. I like that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted January 8, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 8, 2021 19 hours ago, Malal said: It's entirely possible to effectively multiply all the numbers in the game by 100 by simply removing the decimal point from everything. There wouldn't be any real changes to the game except all the numbers would be bigger than before. Bigger numbers takes up longer space though and could potentially break the UI in some places. 16 hours ago, lightside said: The current system is fine and there is literally no reason to change it. Maybe round the display down to the nearest integer while keeping track of the true number but there is no reason to change the true number. I was thinking this is the most reasonable answer as well, but I imagine we'll get a lot of confused bug reports like "I'm supposed to be making coal but it didn't increase this turn at all" when in reality it did, it just wasn't reflected because of rounding. So, somewhere we would need to display the true values anyway. I think the best/easiest solution to this (which I don't think is really an issue) would be to just give players an option to show rounded amounts rather than true values in their resource inventory bar. I also agree that not having decimals would be better all around, but it would be a huge pain in the butt to try to change that all now. 1 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphins Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 On 1/8/2021 at 1:39 PM, Alex said: So, somewhere we would need to display the true values anyway. Maybe have the true value in a tooltip when you hover over a resource value in the resource inventory bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted January 11, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2021 This has been added - you can now choose to round your resources to the nearest whole number (display only) via a new setting on the Account page. 5 1 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua-Corpsman Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 12 minutes ago, Alex said: This has been added - you can now choose to round your resources to the nearest whole number (display only) via a new setting on the Account page. I wanna say, this feature when I turned it on literally made me gasp in awe. I have no clue why, it's not even that big, but this is my favorite feature added in the past 6 months. My OCD has been cured. Thanks. 1 1 Quote To whom it may concern, I do not represent The Immortals unless explicitly stated (ergo, never.)<--- I hardly use the forums anymore, add me on discord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgiumFury Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Alex said: This has been added - you can now choose to round your resources to the nearest whole number (display only) via a new setting on the Account page. Thanks for the great work Alex! I get that removing them entirly is hard with how things are currently balanced but this is a nice (beginning :p). Maybe a quick suggestion though, can we have them centered / with more space inbetween? Reading from right to left is not that common in western languages 😛 ~Belgium Edited January 11, 2021 by BelgiumFury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zephyr Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, Alex said: This has been added - you can now choose to round your resources to the nearest whole number (display only) via a new setting on the Account page. Could you instead just clip the display values to integers instead of actually rounding them? Personally I think this would be better as rounding is deceptive when attempting to sell off a resource. For example, 237.6 coal currently displays as 238 coal, but if I try to make a trade offer for that amount it will be rejected because I don't actually have 238 coal. You could say, "But Zeph, just remember the rounding and make a trade offer for 1 less", to which I'd say "Yeah, but rounding doesn't always apply so I might still be left with an ugly 1 coal". As this feature seems to appeal to more obsessive players, I would think the rounding dilemma would be an equal concern and therefore simply clipping to integers is surely a better solution. I might also suggest doing this for the alliance bank deposit/withdraw screen too (and wherever else I've forgotten its relevancy) 🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted January 13, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 13, 2021 On 1/11/2021 at 9:57 PM, Zephyr said: Could you instead just clip the display values to integers instead of actually rounding them? Personally I think this would be better as rounding is deceptive when attempting to sell off a resource. For example, 237.6 coal currently displays as 238 coal, but if I try to make a trade offer for that amount it will be rejected because I don't actually have 238 coal. You could say, "But Zeph, just remember the rounding and make a trade offer for 1 less", to which I'd say "Yeah, but rounding doesn't always apply so I might still be left with an ugly 1 coal". As this feature seems to appeal to more obsessive players, I would think the rounding dilemma would be an equal concern and therefore simply clipping to integers is surely a better solution. I might also suggest doing this for the alliance bank deposit/withdraw screen too (and wherever else I've forgotten its relevancy) 🙏 I did fix this yesterday so it always rounds down. 1 1 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zephyr Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 5 hours ago, Alex said: I did fix this yesterday so it always rounds down. Excellent, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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