View source for Cost (Multiplier)

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Next to the "normal" usage of <tt>Cost</tt>, Cost can also be used as a multiplier in the [[Country Statistics]] and [[Difficulty Settings]]. Different to normal Cost, these multipliers accept float values, and there is a default value of 1.0. In both cases, the <tt>Cost=</tt> in these sections is a direct multiplier to the <tt>Cost=</tt> setting on the object purchased. 

===Country Statistics===
A new system is put in place for cost multiplier like CostBuildingsMult.

===Difficulty Settings===
<tt>Cost</tt> put on a difficulty setting only applies to the game's AI. Again, it is a direct multiplier (object's cost) x (multiplier's cost).


This flag(s) can change the course of the game significantly, not only because of the financial aspects, but also because (if not [[BuildTimeMultiplier|overridden]]) the time to build is determined by the cost. So if a unit costs you $1000 and the AI only $500, it can build this unit twice as fast as you (that'd be a Cost=.5 (or 0.5) multiplier).

In addition, it is highly probable that both flags cumulate their effects, meaning that an AI-player could be subject to the effects of (object's cost) x (country's cost) x (difficulty cost). To the extreme, this could mean that you pay $1000 for a unit, while the AI only pays $250, giving it the ability to produce four tanks vs. one - in the same time, to the same cost ($1000 x 0.5 x 0.5).


Cost multiplier in Difficulty Settings works in TS but not in RA2 and YR.

==See also==
*[[Cost]]

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