The math of simcountry

the math of simcountry sometimes doesn't make sense. for example i have a corps whose output quality is about 340 but the highest quality i buy for my supply is about 270. how does that work

Im not fully sure, but i think its because you may have automatic upgrading of corps and when they do that, the supplies blends with what the corps quality output is and creates higher quality products

yeah but i thought that the output quality was calculated as an average with some things having a little more weight than others.

i read somewhere that andy said was base on the average

but i wasn't sure if it's the moving average, the medium, mean, mode, middle, or something like that

i have always thought that to average, means the individual components have to have a common denominator. some products are just difficult to define the quality, such as how do you define the difference in quality of hydrogen (h2) or water (h20), and so on....???

There are several factors.

One is the weighted average of the quality of the raw materials.
(the ones used more have more influence).

anther is the quality upgrade level of the corporation.

time to read some very old corporations document. This is as old as the game.

ok ill read those documents but i all ready knew that. but based on my understanding of an average, you can't have an average that is higher/bigger than the highest/biggest factor used to determine that average. and for me, my highest factor in that corp is about 280-270, so despite which has more weight the average should not be higher than 280. but ill read some more of the documentation.

I don't think that the average quality of your raw materials is 280.
if so, please show me such a corporation.
The average is lower. Maybe 180.
the corporation is upgraded and the output quality is 280.
That is possible.

I think what you are missing shallom is, just as Andy said, "another is the quality upgrade level of the corporation".

Which means you do the average weighted supply of materials thing AND THEN increase it again depending on the quality upgrade status of the corp (which can be uo to 200 for a state corp, more for private).

The quality upgrade value, say 200, doesnt mean the average weighted supply quality is multiplied by two though, it isnt that simple, and I have never worked out the exact ratio. But this is why you are seeing high quality product output.

Do read the documents, there are hundreds of things in there that will become clear to you. This is a complex game to master.

oh ok so if i understand it right you take the weighted average of your products and than multiply it by some number that is dependent on your quality upgrade value. i thought that you take the weighted average of your supplies, then add the weighted quality upgrade, and then average the whole thing out. but i see i was wrong. but the ceo is SAO Investment Incorporated and the name of the corp is SAO SGBSST25 Weizmir Road Main.

Heh. Welcome to Simcountry math. It has often been said SC has a math all of its own creation.

in sim math 4+4=more but it isn't always immediately clear how much more is or how more may become even more or less.

I heard that if you divide by zero around these here parts, you get bananas.

they're scared if they give it to us, we would be so enlightened that we'd take over the real world