Post by ck07 on Jun 30, 2022 1:53:30 GMT -6
RTW2 1.26. Germany, starting Jan. 1929. Tested research progress for 4 techs for 4 months: Engines(0)[level at tech frontier for 1929], Armor(1)[advantaged, behind frontier], Tactics(13)[behind frontier]. AA(14)[behind frontier].
Ran it forward 4 months. Budget and research percentage did not change at all. In all 4 months AA priority was "High," Armor and Tactics "Low." Engines was "Low" except "High" in March. In all months except February 4 techs were "High," the others "Low;" in February, 12 "High," the others Low. (So in January and April all the priorities were exactly the same.)
Here are the research points gained each month. Some interesting results, some inexplicable:
Engines Armor Tactics AA
Jan. 6832 6862 6863 35555
Here the three Low techs all get (about) the same. Suggests that however "advantaged" tech works, it isn't through gaining more research points.
Feb. 4390 4360 8780 35114
Starting to get weird. With 12 "High" techs, Engines and Armor get less, as you'd expect, but Tactics gets more. I cannot explain this. AA gets almost the same despite having to share the "High" designation with 11 others instead of 3.
Mar. 11111 3449 13796 35555
Even harder to explain. Engines is up considerably and Armor down, as you'd expect. Tactics, however, is up again, and higher than Engines even though Tactics is "Low" and Engines "High." With once again 4 "High" techs, AA gets the same as January, but > 3x the other "High" tech, Engines.
A random factor cannot explain this, since AA gets exactly the same under the same conditions.
Apr. 6898 13797 13796 35555
The same conditions as January, but the same results only for AA and (approximately) Engines. The other two are both about double what they were in January for no reason I can find.
Engines, where I am working on a post-1929 tech, should get less points than Armor or Tactics in all months except March, but gets (about) the same as both in January, the same as one of them in February. It gets fewer than both only in April.
DK what this all means. It definitely means that "High" vs. "Low" priorities don't mean what the manual says they do, at least not in any simple way.
Ran it forward 4 months. Budget and research percentage did not change at all. In all 4 months AA priority was "High," Armor and Tactics "Low." Engines was "Low" except "High" in March. In all months except February 4 techs were "High," the others "Low;" in February, 12 "High," the others Low. (So in January and April all the priorities were exactly the same.)
Here are the research points gained each month. Some interesting results, some inexplicable:
Engines Armor Tactics AA
Jan. 6832 6862 6863 35555
Here the three Low techs all get (about) the same. Suggests that however "advantaged" tech works, it isn't through gaining more research points.
Feb. 4390 4360 8780 35114
Starting to get weird. With 12 "High" techs, Engines and Armor get less, as you'd expect, but Tactics gets more. I cannot explain this. AA gets almost the same despite having to share the "High" designation with 11 others instead of 3.
Mar. 11111 3449 13796 35555
Even harder to explain. Engines is up considerably and Armor down, as you'd expect. Tactics, however, is up again, and higher than Engines even though Tactics is "Low" and Engines "High." With once again 4 "High" techs, AA gets the same as January, but > 3x the other "High" tech, Engines.
A random factor cannot explain this, since AA gets exactly the same under the same conditions.
Apr. 6898 13797 13796 35555
The same conditions as January, but the same results only for AA and (approximately) Engines. The other two are both about double what they were in January for no reason I can find.
Engines, where I am working on a post-1929 tech, should get less points than Armor or Tactics in all months except March, but gets (about) the same as both in January, the same as one of them in February. It gets fewer than both only in April.
DK what this all means. It definitely means that "High" vs. "Low" priorities don't mean what the manual says they do, at least not in any simple way.