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ORIGINAL: Bebop Cola

If you look at the race files, there are separate spawn chance percentages for each type of character. As such, I would assume each Academy just modifies the spawn chance of their respective character type from the base specified in the race file.

This and logic suggests it would stack.It would be nice to know how much each building improves spawn rates.

The human scientist spawn rate is 1.15

random character appearance chance: Minimum=0, Normal=1.0, Maximum=3.0

Someone among the developers knows the answer to these questions. It really would take so little time on there part to clarify these issues. Sad that not one of them is willing.

I am just in the early stages of my Shadows Empire Pre-Warp game and I have seven planets and constructed five science academies. Before the academies were finished, my empire had two scientists working. A few game years after construction, a new scientist appeared with the trait of Ultra Genius. Was this guys appearance due to the academies construction or just a random occurrence that would have happened anyway? There is no way for me to know.

It would be nice if a message appeared to indicate that this scientist was an academy graduate, or something like that. Then we could get some sense of the usefulness of these facilities.

Then we could get some sense of the usefulness of these facilities.

Indeed. Feedback is essential in a game like this.

ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

This and logic suggests it would stack.

What logic? Because you can build more than one shouldn't automatically mean they have cumulative effects.

ORIGINAL: FerretStyle

ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

This and logic suggests it would stack.

What logic? Because you can build more than one shouldn't automatically mean they have cumulative effects.

Because the A.I policy is set up to build them at every colony over with 5000 population.Logic suggests the developer would not allow that if they have no effect.

ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

This and logic suggests it would stack.It would be nice to know how much each building improves spawn rates.

The human scientist spawn rate is 1.15

random character appearance chance: Minimum=0, Normal=1.0, Maximum=3.0

As ASHBERY76 said logic would suggest each building on a planet increases the chance of a leader spawning on that planet. Until this post I never even thought otherwise and still don't.

ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

Because the A.I policy is set up to build them at every colony over with 5000 population.Logic suggests the developer would not allow that if they have no effect.

But it's not "no effect" even if they don't stack. Having multiples ensures you still have one available if one gets lost for some reason. The A.I. programmed with this kind of redundancy makes perfect sense to me.

Indeed, an answer can't be determined logically because we don't know the rules. Which is what this question is really about. What are the damn rules of the game we're playing. As it is now we can only give a best guess which isn't good enough for people trying to play more efficiently.

Yes, the academies do "stack". It's a straight cumulative increase to chance - however other factors will kick in to limit this a bit: overall number of characters you can have in an empire of your size, number of characters you already have for that character role, etc.

Sorry for being quiet lately - I was out of the office for the past two weeks dealing with some family health emergencies. All is much better now, but I had to put work aside for a bit to focus on family.

Regards,

- Erik

Erik, I hope all s well with your family. May they heal well and quickly....

^ Indeed. Thanks for the response, one more tree from the forest of ignorance has been felled.