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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 337585" data-attributes="member: 1645">Another example of a simple streamlining measure -- one that sounds oh-so-complicated but isn't -- would be to handle advantages and limitations as base-2 logarithms.&nbsp; What does that mean?&nbsp; A +1 advantage would double price (same as now), and a -1 limitation would halve price (same as now) -- but you could add and subtract your advantages and disadvantages the way every newbie thinks you should be able to.If everyone's already looking up power prices on a chart or whipping out a calculator, is it a problem that +1/4 now means 1.2 instead of 1.25, and +1/2 means 1.4 instead of 1.5?It's a small price to pay for being able to take an existing power, add an advantage or disadvantage, and not have to &quot;unroll&quot; all the previous math.&nbsp; A book of powers could list each complicated power with dozens of advantages and limits as having just one final price.&nbsp; Making the whole thing NND would double that price.&nbsp; Making it all an OAF would halve that price.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 337585, member: 1645"] Another example of a simple streamlining measure -- one that [i]sounds[/i] oh-so-complicated but isn't -- would be to handle advantages and limitations as base-2 logarithms. What does that mean? A +1 advantage would double price (same as now), and a -1 limitation would halve price (same as now) -- but you could add and subtract your advantages and disadvantages the way every newbie thinks you should be able to. If everyone's already looking up power prices on a chart or whipping out a calculator, is it a problem that +1/4 now means 1.2 instead of 1.25, and +1/2 means 1.4 instead of 1.5? It's a small price to pay for being able to take an existing power, add an advantage or disadvantage, and not have to "unroll" all the previous math. A book of powers could list each complicated power with dozens of advantages and limits as having just one final price. Making the whole thing NND would double that price. Making it all an OAF would halve that price. [/QUOTE]

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