City-wide entertainment coverage is worth 20 out of 100 entertainment points, with up to 5 "bonus" points (for "perfect" coverage) from each type. A hippodrome automatically has "perfect" city-wide coverage, providing 5 "bonus" points. (If we assume that the rest of your numbers are correct, that'd mean that a chariot provides 30 "regular" entertainment points.)

I'm a little concerned about the effect of theater, amphitheater, and colosseum "bonus" points on your tests. If non-hippodrome city-wide "coverage" was rather poor, then your numbers ought to be good (with the hippodrome correction mentioned above).

After that, I just let them have "access to all the entertainment they could ever desire."

-Dave

The single gladiator below is enough for 25 colosseum pts!!

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[This message has been edited by catilina (edited 08-04-2000).]

Medium Villa 40 entertainment pts
Large Vila 45 pts
Luxury Villa 50 pts
Small Palace 55 pts
Medium Palace 60 pts

I've conducted a few tests recently, and concluded that a random walker generated by a colosseum or amphitheatre with two shows will bestow the full number of entertainment points available from that venue. The scheme is thus modified as follows. A house receives points if it passed by a walker associated with an entertainment venue. A walker is associated with an entertainment venue if:

• It is generated by that venue


• It is on the way to that venue from a performer school

Points are awarded on the following scale:

Venue	No. of Shows	Points
Theatre	n/a	10
Amphitheatre	0-1	10
	2	15
Colosseum	0-1	15
	2	25
Hippodrome	n/a	30

Further to this, I have been examining the way that overall coverage points are awarded. Nero Would has developed an excellent formula which describes the process for Pharaoh, which, with suitable modifications also works for C3.

Citywide coverage is reported by the entertainment advisor and is based on the number of venues of each type per head of population. 'Perfect' coverage requires one theatre for every 400 people, one amphitheatre for every 800, one colosseum for every 1500, and one hippodrome. The level of citywide coverage (the coverage index) for each venue is calculated as follows:

[Coverage index] = [Number of venues] * [Venue coverage] / [Population]

The coverage index is rounded down to 2 decimal places, and is never more than one. Your entertainment advisor then reports your citywide coverage as follows:

Coverage Index	Advisor reports	Coverage Index	Advisor reports
1.00	Perfect	0.40-0.59	Average
0.90-0.99	Excellent	0.30-0.39	Below Average
0.80-0.89	Very Good	0.20-0.29	Poor
0.70-0.79	Good	0.10-0.19	Very Poor
0.60-0.69	Above Average	0.00-0.09	None

To work out your bonus entertainment points, work out the coverage indices for the 4 venues (remember that for a Hippodrome, it's either 0 or 1), rounding down to two decimal places. Then add the coverage indices together, multiply by five, and round down.

Example: A city of 4175 people, with 4 theatres (coverage for 2000), one amphitheatre (800), one colosseum (1500), and one hippodrome (all of them)

Calculate the coverage indices:
Theatre: 2000/4175=0.479 rounds to 0.47
Amphitheatre: 800/4175=0.191 rounds to 0.19
Colosseum: 1500/4157=0.361 rounds to 0.36
Hippodrome: 1.00 rounds to 1.00

Add them up: (0.47+0.19+0.36+1.0)=2.13

Multiply by 5: 5*2.13=10.65

Round down: 10

Every house receives 10 'coverage' entertainment points, in addition to any it receives from walker coverage.

Alan

[This message has been edited by Creon (edited 08-30-2000).]

Alan

[This message has been edited by Caesar Alan (edited 08-30-2000).]

Your table is as misleading as mine.
The random actor / gladiator of a no-show-amphitheater / colosseum is worth 10/15 pts.

ciy-wide coverage: none=0.00, "sparse"= up to 0.09

BTW, you can use whatever you find in my posts.

Alan