Production Multiplier Q

[Michael T]

@ morvael

This is going back a long way. But I thought (as explained by Pavel) the way Heavy Industry (and Armaments as well) production worked was this:

((Number of Factories in each City times by Production Multiplier) round down) times by 500 (or 250 for Armaments)

For example let’s take Gorky’s HI in 1943.

5 HI Factories X 1.3 = 6.5 = 6.0 round down times 500 = 3000

But if this is still correct (maybe it has changed since I last played or perhaps I misunderstood) the 1942 multiplier would mean nothing as it is only 1.1.
As no HI site has enough factories to get up to the next whole number. For example Gorky would be still 5 after rounding down.

What am I missing here? Has the method of calculation changed? Maybe it never really was like this anyway?

Can you explain it please if my understanding is wrong.

[Michael T]

Here is thread, ah the good old days...

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[gingerbread]

This was the case before. Like you say, production multiplier was applied to the number of factories in a specific slot at a location with fractional factories dropped before multiplying with the base production of the relevant factory type. I assume this was a relic from the old War in Russia days using integers to minimize memory usage.

This was changed in a late 1.07 or early 1.08 to applying the multiplier to the points generated. A Sov ARM will in '42 and later produce 250 x 1.3 = 325 arms points.
The Gorky factories in your example will produce 3300 Supply.

[Michael T]

Ok cool, I can update my spread sheet. Thanks.

[morvael]

Thanks gingerbread for answering in my stead.