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"Required culture for current level:" I would like to know how this is calculated (i.e., what is the formula?). Cookies for anyone who can tell me!
Or to put the questions another way:
100% of what?
125% of what?
150% of what?
160% of what?
170% of what?
I don't see how the differences between the levels are the same percentage.According to a post on the beta forum the distance between the culture levels are the same but how big the distance is between the culture levels depends on your available culture+working population.
My confusion may come from the fact that in two different spots they use the word "required" when speaking of culture. So, one would think the "required" culture from one tab would be the same "required" culture from the other tab. But apparently they are not the same required. I would use a different word. So, the one is how much culture is required in order to run your city and the other tab is a number of culture that you need for your bonus. ok
But, how do we figure out how much will be required for the bonus? It makes a big difference in city planning. Why have a component of the planning be a secret?
Update: Since my last post I have not upgraded a building, so my culture requirement has stayed the same. I have been building culture things all day. I can now tell you it will take exactly TWICE as much culture for a 150% bonus as for the 125% bonus. In order to get the 125% bonus, I need 1400. In order to get the 150%, I need 2800. The best culture item I can buy has 36 culture points per space (The Gift of the Garden Fairy). I would need to use 38 spaces in order to get that much culture. One expansion is only 25 spaces, so that means I would need to use one and half expansions just on culture in order to get that extra 25%. Forget it. If I get lucky and almost every neighbor I have come by to give me neighborly help at the same time, then I might get that extra boost. On beta, I am much more advanced and I would need 7 neighbors to come by at the same time, all of them polishing my Mysterious Cyclones, in order to get a boost from 150% to 160%. I can tell that is next to impossible. Oh...you might get that many in a day, but not at the same time.
I can also tell you that my city looks absurd on beta. I have more mysterious cyclones than level 15 houses. That would be like designing New York City to have more than one Lincoln Center every block.
I don't see how the differences between the levels are the same percentage.
In order to get 125% I need 1400
In order to get 150% I need 2800
In order to get 160% I need 5800.
So, to go from 125 to 150, I need to double my culture, and in order to go from 150 to only 160, I need to MORE than double my culture again? How is that even steps? It just doesn't make any sense to keep your culture high after a while.
We won't be releasing the exact formula for these calculations, but you are of course free to try and figure them out yourself!
Bonus level: 150%
Required for current level: 1400
Next level: 160%
Required for next level: 2200