TradeRouteDef vs the wiki

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I am trying to put together a series of small tweaks for balance in retribution and wanted to start with economy, since I've noticed a significant lack of funds in the latest expansion. However, I can't get the calculations straight for trade route value.

My idea was to have the trade routes provide a percentage of gross income of each port instead of the flat population value listed in the wikihttps://galciv3.gamepedia.com/Trade

However, in the TradeRouteDef.xml, you can see <PlanetIncomePercentage>0.03</PlanetIncomePercentage> or a line similar in each definition of the trade routes.

So my question is this: is the game already applying a percentage based forumla to trade, or is it just counting population?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

% of raw production, so 3% for a basic route (0.03).

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for your quick response!

I took another look in a game at some trade routes and can't make heads or tails of this.

So you can see right away that it isn't the sum of populations, like the wiki says, so I don't know where that came from. Maybe outdated information there. However, I tried 3% of production, but that gives you 1.044, which doesn't match the mysterious .58. So then I tried 3% of income, which gives .663.

The trade route is labeled as a basic route, so it must be using .03 somehow, not .1 or .05. But I don't know where the numbers in the tooltip are coming from.

Edit: After digging a bit more, I see that 'raw production' as a value is not listed in the tooltips. The production shown is 'all construction.'

So I guess the question now is, can I change it to be based on gross income, or is it hard coded to production?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Its harcoded to production, that sum would be the 3% + 0.1 per tile to destination + 0.1 per turn at 100% Tax.

You can not see the destination planets Raw Production unless you have a spy there (its not displayed in the tooltip). Which is why most/all people go by the population to decide where to send trade ships.

EDIT

The wiki could well be correct btw, and it is just base population.