New Tech- Architecture

[Meliva]

Here is the Calculation of how much you would save(with the exception of resources, I may try to get that done when I have more time.)

Total grand cost of getting all current hideout buildings max is
1,944,950 Gold Bars
1,521,065,948 Gold Coins

With this tech maxed you would save
40% gold coin reduction-608,426,379
10% gold bar reduction-194,495

The new Grand Total would be
1,750,455 Gold Bars
912,639,569 Gold Coins


However we must take into account that not every player will want to max out every building.
And this is based on the MAX you can save,(as in you only start with 1 level in mansion and academy the bare minimum to begin tech.)

Cost should be about 35% of that.

How does 20% sound? That would cost about 120M gold and 38,899 gold bars. Also do not forget that in order to unlock this tech you need to get shipwright management and storage tech to level 10.

So it would cost about the same amount as maxing out education. so I will just use it as the new basis for its total cost
6M gold per level
and a slightly lower gold bar cost.

[DezNutz]

What you are looking for is actual savings. 40% is your relative savings. Actual savings is Relative Savings minus Costs. To determine costs you simply determine what you want to be your actual savings to be. A good actual savings is about 25% of the total original cost (which is why I said 35% of the 40% savings).

65% or .65 of 608,426,379 = ~395,477,146

395,477,146 / 1,521,065,948 = .259 or 26% (rounded)

608,426,379 - 395,477,146 = 212,949,233

So 200-220M gc should be the total cost of this Tech.

[Meliva]

I still think that having it cost about as much as education is the better option. For starters, like I mentioned you need 2 techs to be level 10 to unlock this tech, Second, you need to remember that many players may already have certain building already built, which would also lower the benefit of this tech, Third not all players will want to max out all their buildings. The relative savings I posted is the maximum amount you can get assuming you only get 1 mansion level and 1 academy level until you max this out, THEN max out each building. although I did not calculate the savings on resources, which would probably raise that amount a fair bit.