Research Balance (population weighting)
Due to technical reasons, the first numerical update to modifier will occur on the first month tick after the game starts.
modifier by giving each country a modifier to affect three corrections, namely: innovation output, innovation input bottleneck, technology diffusion , based on the country’s population to determine what position the country is in the research balance, thus doubling the modifier.
Although it is unreasonable for the population to affect the innovation input bottleneck, it is also unreasonable for science and technology to bind to the country. If the country is compared to a person, the country’s science and technology and the country’s population are both attributes of this person, then the population impact including the research related amendments to the innovation input bottleneck is more reasonable.
Population ranges from 0 to 20M, modifier Modifier from +100% innovation output, -25 innovation input bottleneck, -25% technology diffusion linear declination to no effect
Population ranges from 20M to 200M, modifier corrects from no effect linear decay to -75% innovation output, +50 innovation input bottleneck, +25% technology diffusion
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Basic innovation has 50 points, innovation output is also effective for basic innovation, so that countries that cannot build universities can also obtain higher research speed, but also avoid AI can not correctly measure the value of universities, because the correction is not the innovation output of universities, but the innovation output of countries.
Literacy can increase innovation investment bottlenecks and technology diffusion, and the low population penalty is to avoid excessive research rates in countries with low literacy rates.
If the population of a country is too small, it is indeed more difficult to learn technology from other countries. Just like the average investment in innovation, it is more reasonable to do so when technology is bound to the country.
This model is very similar to the original independent investment correction, the highest attenuation value of independent investment is GDP reaches 2B, and the highest attenuation value here is the population reaches 200M, the original has a country at the beginning of the population steadily exceeds the maximum attenuation value, and it is the only country with a population that exceeds the maximum decline value at the beginning. Therefore, it is necessary to take the negative correction of innovation output -75% to develop at the beginning, fortunately, it has relevant technology to build a university, at a quarter efficiency of half the effort, it is difficult to get any gain from the innovation input bottleneck +50 in the early stage, if the construction capacity is high to this degree, I think the early stage has passed. However, the 25% markup of science and technology diffusion will still be helpful, which is the advantage of a large population and easy access to information, on the contrary, countries with too small a population will not only slightly reduce science and technology expansion in the early stage, but also the output of high innovation will be affected by the reduction of innovation input bottlenecks.
If you are interested in how to implement the Multiplier modifier by population number, you can see how I did it in the Mod file
Compatible with most mods, this Mod only adds new content and does not change the original, the references are unchangeable in the original, so it is difficult to appear incompatible.
modifier Modifier overlaps with the original correction, ensuring that the modifier is not overlaid to a near unreasonable degree.
Supported languages：简体中文、English
2023.10.20
