Developer Diary #3 - ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY: GROWTH AND ITS STRAINS 2010-11-26

Today, we are going to talk a bit about Administration Efficiency.

Administration Efficiency represents the country’s ability to administer its possessions, and how such possessions and their management strain it.

At a gameplay level, it places a special price on a country's geographical growth just for its own sake.

The player needs to address this problem by defining some long- and short-term strategies, which means, like everything in Magna Mundi, compromises.




MECHANICS

At its heart, Administration Efficiency is based on two concepts: Administrative Need and Administrative Capabilities. It’s the relation between both that gives us the Administration Efficiency you see displayed on the interface.

Administrative Need: This concept represents the burden that effectively administering the possessions places on the State. It is modified by the number of provinces being administered, the weight of which depends on additional factors.

Factors to calculate Administrative Need (AN):

  • Base Administrative Need
  • Each Province owned
  • Each non-Core, non-Colony owned
  • Each Non-Controlled
  • Each Culture
  • Each Religion
  • Each Colony owned
  • Each 1% of local revolt risk



Administrative Capabilities: This concept represents the ability of the State to effectively administer its possessions. It is affected by various factors that either contribute to or detract from it.

Factors affecting Administrative Capabilities (AC):

  • Each ADM point
  • Each Centralization
  • Each Serfdom
  • Each Prestige
  • All Merchant Republics
  • All Monarchies
  • All Dictatorships
  • All Despotisms
  • All Republics
  • All Empires
  • All Tier 3 Governments
  • All Tier 2 Governments
  • All Tier 1 Governments
  • Administrative National Ethos
  • Religious National Ethos
  • Social National Ethos
  • Viceroys (*)
  • Administrative Advisors
  • Faction Alignment

(*) – Viceroys remove the extra cost of colonies.



Calculating Administrative Efficiency rate: The rate of Administrative Efficiency is determined by the result of Administrative Need divided by Administrative Capabilities (AN/AC). It is a powerful modifier that can make country management far smoother or much, much harder.

Levels of Administration Efficiency

  • Stellar
  • Commendable
  • Competent
  • Adequate
  • Ineffective
  • Crippled
  • Poor
  • Strained
  • Overwhelmed




In the end, when the player places the mouse cursor over the Administration Efficiency icon, he sees all of the information in a single tooltip.



Enjoy,


Ubik

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