Strategus 4 FAQ

[Tomas]

Nice. So you will get positive trade bonus only after passing 14km?

yes

[Segd]

Lol, just calculated PubCrawl's army(120k) upkeep from Strat 1.
195 228 gold per hour
4 685 472 per day
32 798 304 per week 

[Turboflex]

Distance bonus formula has changed.

Max bonus stays the same but the min bonus is now -50%.

OP updated

=IF(Distance<60,200*COS((Distance*PI()/60)-PI())+150,320+Distance/2)

For us non-mathematicians, is there a website or something where I can use this and change "distance" into a number and get a result?

Or can you list some milestones?

14km is new minumum to get F.A.G. bonus? What % do you get for that? what about 20km? 30km? 40km?

Same for troop upkeep formulas...

[Lt_Anders]

Put the formula into Excel and I get a "loop" function. -50 at 0, 250 at 14, -50 at 27,...-50 at 60.

Either I did something wrong or the COS doesn't mean cosine.

It would be this way.
(Distance * Pi/ 60)
This number -Pi
Then, take the Cosine of that, and then multiply by 200.
Unless you are at 60 or higher in which case you would use the other half the formula of Number+distance/2

[HarunYahya]

Good guy tomas...
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[HarunYahya]

11)  How does AI hiring work?
- if you don't hire anybody on for your roster manually, the AI will step in and hire people
- to override the AI simply remove everybody and then re-hire someone yourself

No way to disable AI hiring ?
If can't , when does AI start hiring people ? Last 1 hour or something ?

12) How does auto peasant gear work?
- if you are naked you get free peasant gear for all your troops
- this gear will disappear after the battle

You only get peasant gear if you are defending.
Grey and us attacked without gear and we were naked and unarmed against defenders with peasant gear.

[Tomas]

No way to disable AI hiring ?
If can't , when does AI start hiring people ? Last 1 hour or something ?

Hire 1 person straight away to disable AI hiring altogether.  Not sure when it kicks in

Added Defenders only to peasant gear section

[Tanken]

Hey Tomas any confirmation on whether or not the reset the PP for 7 day thing resets when someone attacks?

[serr]

Ask Druzhina or Greys, we launched respec in Ibiran and Druzhina captured it on next day.

[Segd]

Ask Druzhina or Greys, we launched respec in Ibiran and Druzhina captured it on next day.

There was something like that:  "4 days till respec. Do you want to cancel it?"

[Tomas]

21:05 <Tomas___> respeccing can be cancelled?
21:05 <chadz> yeah

[Muki]

Army transfer to Fief is still disable (or Not functional ) any clue when it will be enable?

[Tomas]

Army transfer to Fief is still disable (or Not functional ) any clue when it will be enable?

It is working for me just fine   Remember you can only transfer troops after the first 100.  So trying to transfer 50 troops out of 149 will not work

[Torben]

will the auto peasant gear also kick in if an army of 300 has only 100 armors for instance?  so the other 200 armors would be peasant gear?

[Lt_Anders]

Put the formula into Excel and I get a "loop" function. -50 at 0, 250 at 14, -50 at 27,...-50 at 60.

Either I did something wrong or the COS doesn't mean cosine.

It would be this way.
(Distance * Pi/ 60)
This number -Pi
Then, take the Cosine of that, and then multiply by 200.
Unless you are at 60 or higher in which case you would use the other half the formula of Number+distance/2

Re did the formula, and you put the distance in km rather than meters. So 27 gives 118% bonus which is still optimal(not the 2.2x it was) but it seems that longer trades are now what you want for any kind of return.