Capitol — SFC2 Wiki

The Capitol is your planet's main settlement. It is where all of your buildings are built. By upgrading your Capitol and by assigning workers (Build Droids) to the Capitol, you can increase the speed at which new buildings and upgrades to existing buildings are completed.

The time it takes to build any building is based on the following formula:

Time_(hours) =

Ore Cost + Crystal Cost

2500 * (1+Capitol Level) * 2^{Foundry Level}

Cost and Effect

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Hydrogen Cost	New Build Time %
1	400	120	200	50.00
2	800	240	400	33.33
3	1,600	480	800	25.00
4	3,200	960	1,600	20.00
5	6,400	1,920	3,200	16.67
6	12,800	3,840	6,400	14.29
7	25,600	7,680	12,800	12.50
8	51,200	15,360	25,600	11.11
9	102,400	30,720	51,200	10.00
10	204,800	61,440	102,400	9.09
11	409,600	122,880	204,800	8.33
12	819,200	245,760	409,600	7.69
13	1,638,400	491,520	819,200	7.14
14	3,276,800	983,040	1,638,400	6.67
15	6,553,600	1,966,080	3,276,800	6.25
16	13,107,200	3,932,160	6,553,600	5.88
17	26,214,400	7,864,320	13,107,200	5.56
18	52,428,800	15,728,640	26,214,400	5.26

Example: a building that cost a combined 5,000 ore and crystal would take 2 hours with level 0 Capitol, 1 hour with a Level 1 Capitol, and 40 minutes with a Level 2 Capitol, etc.

Where capitol level = n and new build time percent = x: x = 1/(n+1)*100.

Note: For a moon's Warp Gate, since there is no Foundry and there are no Workers, etc., to alter the equation, the % time reduction off the initial 100 days is essentially a list of the number of days to produce the Warp Gate from initiation. Hence, with a level 7 Capitol, it takes 12.5 days to complete a Warp Gate.

Dependencies

Requirements

None

Required For

Level 2: Shipyard
Level 10: Foundry

Comments

Tal-Khoraash 20 days ago

JamHunter, that's the construction time formula for SFC Original, which was apparently copied here unaltered.
The problem is this:
SFC2 is an Extreme speed game, that is, twice as fast as Original. Altering the formula to account for the speed difference must have been forgotten at the time.

If we, who have more time, provide a detailed, logical reason a particular change should be made, that change is then more likely to happen.
JamHunter 20 days ago

This formula seems to be slightly wrong:
Time(hours) = Ore Cost + Crystal Cost / 2500 * (1+Capitol Level) * 2^Foundry Level

It seems I get the correct numbers if I add one to the Foundry:
Time(hours) = Ore Cost + Crystal Cost / 2500 * (1+Capitol Level) * 2^{Foundry Level+1}