Nuclear weapon cost and upkeep

[xenon]

Nuclear Weapons - Nuclear weapons are expensive at $500,000 and with each active nuclear weapon in your possession the price of nukes increases by 10%. In addition to the initial cost, nuclear weapons also have a starting cost of $5,000 a day to maintain (Upkeep cost is doubled if you do not have access to Uranium). This cost increases +10% for every nuclear weapon that you own. Your nation will need a technology level of 75 or greater, an infrastructure level of 1,000 or greater, access to uranium for nuclear weapon production, and be ranked within the top 5% nations in order to begin purchasing nuclear weapons (Or own the Manhattan Project wonder). A player can only purchase 1 nuclear weapon per day (2 with the Weapons Research Complex wonder).

Ok, I'll start with the price.

Does the +10% act like improvements, in other words making it +20% if you have 2, or does it add +10% onto the cost of the nuke you previously purchased? So if you have 2 would it be calculated by 500000*1.20 or like (((500000)1.10)1.10)?

Now for the upkeep.

Again, does it act like improvements, in other words if you have two would it be calculated by doing (2*5000)1.20 or would it be (((2*5000)1.10)1.10)?

Or am I just completely missing something here?

Edited November 28, 2009 by xenon

[Seerow]

Ok, I'll start with the price.

Does the +10% act like improvements, in other words making it +20% if you have 2, or does it add +10% onto the cost of the nuke you previously purchased? So if you have 2 would it be calculated by 500000*1.20 or like (((500000)1.10)1.10)?

Now for the upkeep.

Again, does it act like improvements, in other words if you have two would it be calculated by doing (2*5000)1.20 or would it be (((2*5000)1.10)1.10)?

Or am I just completely missing something here?

The increases per unit are linear. Nukes increase in price by 50k per unit you have, so it would be having two = 500,000*1.2=600,000. Having 20 is 500,000*3=1.5mil

Upkeep works the same way, but it increases for every nuke above the first. So it goes:

1- 5000

2- 5500

3- 6000

4- 6500

5- 7500

And so on up to 14500 per unit at 20. (Or 17000 with 25)

[xenon]

So that means that the total upkeep would grow like this?:

Total Upkeep 0 5000 11000 18000 26000 35000 45000 56000 68000 81000 95000 110000 126000 143000 161000 180000 200000 221000 243000 266000 290000

[SleepiB]

Yes, 20 nukes' upkeep is 5.8M/day without uranium, 2.9M with uranium.

The initial cost for 20 nukes is 20,000,000.

[Seerow]

Yes, 20 nukes' upkeep is 5.8M/day without uranium, 2.9M with uranium.

The initial cost for 20 nukes is 20,000,000.

Divide your numbers by 10.