How does the influence works? (again)
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I still can not understand how the influence is calculated.
1) Say you have a sector with 3 stars. Each star has influence 10, but only 2 stars are populated, does it mean that you got 20 influences from stars and not 30?
2) If I build in the above example improvement on one of the planets, does it improve influence of this star only or of the total result for the sector?
3) Which value is used in order to calculate influence of one sector onto another?
a) just a sum of the populated by you star values
value of the previous line multiplied by the effects of the bases?
c) Star values multiplied by the effects of the planet improvements and then by the base value
4) When you calculate you total influence, do you include sectors that you are not controlling, but still have some influence?
5) How does the influence decrease based on distance?
6) Is there a way to see how much influence per turn you generate?
And MOST difficult question:
7) In order to calculate you influence in the sector, you need to know your total influence, yet in order to calculate your total influence you need to know influence in each sector. How to deal with it?
The last point might be related to the fact that the influence is not reconstructed when you save and then load the game. Because you have to calculate several times influences of sectors, then total, then of sectors, then total and so on, in order to come to the solution. Alternatively one can solve system of the equation, but I strongly suspect that it is not done this way; more over I am not sure that the solution is unique.
MxM
1) Say you have a sector with 3 stars. Each star has influence 10, but only 2 stars are populated, does it mean that you got 20 influences from stars and not 30?
2) If I build in the above example improvement on one of the planets, does it improve influence of this star only or of the total result for the sector?
3) Which value is used in order to calculate influence of one sector onto another?
a) just a sum of the populated by you star values
value of the previous line multiplied by the effects of the bases?c) Star values multiplied by the effects of the planet improvements and then by the base value
4) When you calculate you total influence, do you include sectors that you are not controlling, but still have some influence?
5) How does the influence decrease based on distance?
6) Is there a way to see how much influence per turn you generate?
And MOST difficult question:
7) In order to calculate you influence in the sector, you need to know your total influence, yet in order to calculate your total influence you need to know influence in each sector. How to deal with it?
The last point might be related to the fact that the influence is not reconstructed when you save and then load the game. Because you have to calculate several times influences of sectors, then total, then of sectors, then total and so on, in order to come to the solution. Alternatively one can solve system of the equation, but I strongly suspect that it is not done this way; more over I am not sure that the solution is unique.
MxM
