Re: Galaxy Question

From: dagibbs@qnx.com (David Gibbs)

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <01bcf02c$039bca20$3102450c@default>,
Darren Lenda <DELENDA@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I'm just starting my first galaxy game (blind galaxy) and I've got a couple
>of questions for some helpful soul...
>Can anyone tell me exactly when population growth occurrs?  Is it before or
>after production? Before or after unloading (routes and/or manual
>unloading)?

Population growth is, effectively, the last part of the Production section.
It happens after the buidling of stuff, but before cargo is unloaded at
the ends of routes.

Manual unloading happens at the start of the turn, in the "all orders
except..." section, this happens before production and before population
growth.

To summarise, the order is:

manual unload,
  production,
  reproduction,
  automatic unload

>Also, if I have 8 colonists in a system, will they grow? Growth rate is 8%
>so 8 X .08 = .64 .

Colonists are "frozen", frozen people don't have sex.  (No, only population
grows, then gets converted to colonists.  Colonists don't grow.)

> Does gal keep track of colonist fractions or round off?

Yes.  Galaxy generally keeps several digits of floating point precision
on most things, and reports two places after the decimal.

>Next turn will there be 8, 8.64, or 9?

Next turn your total will completely depend on how much population in the
system gets snap frozen.  Most likely, next turn you will have 16 colonists.
(As the system produced 64 excess people that got snap-frozen to be 8
colonists, next turn it will also propably produce 64 excess people who will
get snap-frozen to be 8 more colonists.)

Hope this helps,
-David Gibbs
dagibbs@qnx.com
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-David Gibbs
dagibbs@qnx.com

References

Galaxy Question
"Darren Lenda" <DELENDA@worldnet.att.net>
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Galaxy Question
"Darren Lenda" <DELENDA@worldnet.att.net>
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000