Rune Production WAY down.

[Lucky75]

Hey.. I'm at 1000 acres and have 15% towers, 110% BE and 80% rune science.

How am I only producing 1800 runes an hour??! What do I need to run to get back the cost of casting spells? 25% towers?! I seem to remember rune production being a lot higher relative to the cost of spells.

[Landro]

Towers produce 12 runes each so you should produce 3240 runes/hour with 150 towers and 80% sci

edit:
I just calculated my own rune production. 43 towers + 51.6% sci should produce 43 * 12 * 1.516 = 782 runes/hr but i only produce 624. It seems my 80.0 BE is taken into account when it shouldn't.

[Bishop]

Hey.. I'm at 1000 acres and have 15% towers, 110% BE and 80% rune science.

How am I only producing 1800 runes an hour??! What do I need to run to get back the cost of casting spells? 25% towers?! I seem to remember rune production being a lot higher relative to the cost of spells.

You are not producing 1800 - half of them decayed.

Runes Produced 3,330 runes
Runes Decayed 1,589 runes

Looks fine to me.

[Landro]

Bishop, can you comment on the numbers I posted? I always thought towers were unaffected by BE but this seems not to be the case. (I only list the produced number of runes)

This HC:
43 towers * 12 runes/tower * (100 + 47.9)/100 from sci = 763 runes/hour
yet I only produced 607 runes (606 net change because 1 rune decayed)
I'm Shep. The difference can again be explained by being affected by my 79.8 BE (with a small rounding difference)

[Bishop]

BE affects the runes produced - towers aren't affected by Declining Building Efficiency, maybe thats what you are thinking of?

[Landro]

I thought rune production from towers worked like the capacity boost from homes, stable capacity and dungeon space. All of which are unaffected by BE.

It would give Elves a moderate boost if towers weren't affected by BE.

[Bishop]

Nah, towers are flat rate - not capacity.

Here are the relevant wiki entries

Building Efficiency affects all Flat-Rate and Percentage-Based buildings.
http://wiki.utopia-game.com/index.ph...ing_Efficiency


Capacity Buildings - These buildings simply create space for you, and are not impacted by efficiency
issues. Homes, for example, provide additional space for peasants.

Flat Rate Buildings - This type of building provides a set amount of a particular resource. These
buildings need many employees to be fully effective. An example is a Tower which creates a set
number of runes each day.

Percentage-based Buildings - The majority of Utopian buildings are percentage-based. These buildings
provide an effect based on the portion of your land covered by it. For example, having 10% of your
land as Banks will increase your income by a certain percentage. Like flat-rate buildings, these
also require employees to provide full effects. In addition, each additional building you construct
will be less effective. The numbers listed in this section would be for the first building you
construct. Your Internal Affairs Advisor will help you to understand the benefits of your land.
Unless otherwise specified, these buildings have a maximum effect of 25 times the number listed
below. With normal building efficiency, this maximum is reached by dedicating 50% of your land to
that building.

http://wiki.utopia-game.com/index.ph...s_of_Buildings

[Lucky75]

I guess you're right, but I seem to remember being able to produce a lot more with the same stats in ages past, even with rune decay. Maybe I'm just forgetting things though. Please close/delete the thread then :)

[Bishop]

rune production is unchanged, but glad this is resolved. thread closed