(July 18th, 2013, 16:53)Krill Wrote: Could someone please make those posts understandable in terms of workers and settlers?
Normal speed:
Suppose that getting a thing now tends to be worth about twice as much as getting a thing in thirty turns. Math says that in this case, getting a thing every turn forever is worth about as much as getting 42 equally valuable things now. You can use this, along with other estimates, as a baseline when comparing options. For example, if you want to estimate the value of a settled scientist, without calculating in turn the value of the techs you get slightly faster or the buildings you complete slightly faster, you could just say, 7.5b and 1h every turn, that's about as good as getting 315b and 42h right now. So then you can compare the benefit of the settled scientist more easily to other things you could do with the scientist instead, to a reasonable approximation.
Workers and settlers are significantly more complicated than this because they interact so strongly with the map, so they aren't very helpful in explaining it.