In a message dated 3/22/01 5:32:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
din_ohtar@yahoo.com.au writes:
<< I'm still lost why 90% is the same as 100 % for
transfers (I always felt that the teamsters take 10%
of my 90%, so I'm left with 81%).
>>
What he was trying to get across is that if you read the rule carefully, all
of the amount specified goes to the destination, and then an additional 10%
of the amount specified is taken out of your stores as the fee. If you
specify 100%, there is nothing left in your stores to pay the fee, so then
the 100% becomes 90% transferred, 10% taken out as fee. You get 1% more
transferred to the destination hex if you specify 91% instead of 100% since
the fee is then 10% of 91%, or roughly 9% of the total instead of 10%.
That is what he was trying to say.
HOWEVER, I recently had exactly 1100 food in one hex (which does not produce
food) and (silly me) I specified 1100 on my 948 order as the amount to be
sent to another hex. I expected 110 to be taken out as the fee, but when I
analyzed the numbers the next turn, it turned out that only 100 was taken out
as the fee and 1000 was delivered to the destination hex. It seems the
computer program automatically corrected my mistake and reduced the amount
specified until there WAS enough left over to make up the 10% fee, thereby
making moot the distinction between 91% and 100 % in the player's argument.
Argument = what is input to the computer to be used in an algorithm
(formula), referred to as "required info" in MEPBM.
Ed