Re: Routes in standard Galaxy

From: Jim Woodward <jimw@wt.net>

Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Brian,

I don't know if this will help answer what you are after, but I do know
that for a standard game you can get a colonist ship to autounload on
aplanet as long as a route is set to that planet from any other planet
(not neccissarily the planet the hauling ship group originated from).
Therefore you can set a route to the planet on the orders just before the
hauling ship is to arrive at that planet from any other planet that is
convenient and it will autounload.  I have taken advantage of this before
in standard games during expansion by setting useless colonist routes to
empty planets I am expanding into.  I set the originating route planet
from rocks or from planets that I am not currently developing (and
therefore or not part of another route structure I have set up).  Then I
load a group of haulers on a planet with enough colonist stockpiles and
send out single hauler ships (sometimes in 2's if there are a lot of
haulers in the original group) from the group to multiple empty planets.
Since I have a whole bunch of empty planets with routes set to them from
other planets the ships will autounload on the turn they arrive - hence no
wasted turn having to order them to unload on the turn after they arrive
(one extra turn of colonist growth and industrial growth this way at the
new planet).  This is only required in standard games (and maybe some
other variants I haven't played much at all like blind, Galaxy G, etc.)
I am sure there are rules for what happens if two races arrive at a
planet, have autounload set and a route set to the empty planet as to who
gets to unload (or maybe neither of them do), but I do not know the answer
to that one.

As I am fairly certain you already know Brian in the Galaxy NG variant
this does not matter - if autounload is turned on a hauling ship will
autounload regardless of the route state.  In Galaxy NG routes are not
needed to get haulers to autounload on unoccupied planets on the very turn
they arrive there.

See ya'
Jim

Brian Greenfield wrote:

> Hi
>
> It's been a *long* time since I asked a questions about routes, so I
> thought I'd ask a hopefully non-trivial question that I've always
> wondered about.
>
> If I ROUTE a ship loaded with COL to an empty planet, and it takes
> many turns to get there, will the ship auto-unload if I change the
> originating planets ROUTE before the ship arrives?
>
> Supplemental question, or, another way of asking the same thing: If I
> SEND a loaded colony ship to the same planet, and later (but before
> the ship arrives) set a COL route from the correct planet, will the
> ship auto-unload.
>
> Basically, does a ship "know" that it's been sent on a route, or is it
> just that the route has to exist when the ship arrives?
>
> Many thanks to all who answer...
> --
> To reply, don't change anything ;)
>
> You're reading this in a newsgroup because that's where I posted it.
> That's where I'd like to read your reply too.   DON'T MAIL AND POST!

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Routes in standard Galaxy
$980329$@dtseven.demon.co.uk (Brian Greenfield)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000