Overflow hammers question.

[Qwack]

Im going to try this in my next game, but im hoping I can get a quick reply from here. When you are building something which gets a +100% modifier from marble/stone/copper, it doesnt make the building half-cost, but instead hammers are multiplied by 2, so the question is, lets say I prechop a few forests while building oracle with marble, then once oracle is about to be done, I chop all those forests.

Example:
Oracle 140 hammers already completed, I chop 4 forests for 160 hammers (marble), this will give me oracle and 150 overflow, does this mean that the next thing I produce will get 150 hammers from the previous overflow or will it go back to 75?

[Zalson]

Since it's just hammers, I'm pretty sure the overflow counts... But this is just a guess (a bad one at that)... I've never seen this done before, though... hmmm

Just so that you didn't get everyone looking at it and not answering...

[Dreylin]

The implication from the display (if you hover over the total hammers) is that it adds the overflow to the current base hammers and then applies the multipliers. I would be very surprised if you could roll the multiplier over into the next item on the queue....

[VoiceOfUnreason]

I believe this experiment answers your question.

Launch a game with an aggressive leader. Found your city, then go into worldbuilder, and gift yourself a worker in a forest, Bronzeworking, and a plains mine.

Put the one pop point on your mine (so you are now producing 5 hammers per turn), start the worker chopping, and build a barracks. Stop the worker chop after 2 turns. After 4 turns, the barracks will be 40/60. Have the worker finish the chop. Progress on the barracks is now listed as 80/60. End turn.

The barracks is finished, and when you examine the city to look at production, you find 15 hammers of overflow; 5 hammers from the city and mine, 10 hammers of overflow from the chop. If the overflow came after the bonus, those numbers would be doubled.

Hammers from overflow, like hammers from mines, specialists, and the city, get the production bonus of the next thing you build.