Re: Galaxy Question

From: bampton@interlego.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <6553rt$7l9@access2.digex.net> jdc@access2.digex.net (John Cochran) writes:
>In article <6551b4$udc@qnx.com>, David Gibbs <dagibbs@qnx.com> wrote:
>>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)?

[...]

>You are correct for Galaxy. However, Blind Galaxy does things a little
>differently

>In blind galaxy
>  manual unload
>  automatic unload
>  production
>  reproduction

>This has a fairly major effect on the game reguarding routes. In Galaxy,
>there is no real advantage to routes except to automate a little shipping.
>Routes in Galaxy will not affect population growth or industry. However,
>in Blind Galaxy, routes do have a noticable effect. They can effectively
>give you an extra turn of production when starting a colony.

The note on route side effects is correct. The order of events
however, is not quite right (although it is close enough unless you
compute production values very precisely).

This is the correct sequence (I've checked it against the code):

manual unload
  automatic unload
  reproduction (available cap -> ind as needed)
  production of units
  production of tech/cap/mat

The newest version of the rules explicitly state this now:

| Cargo is unloaded at the end of routes. (Not manually though)
| Population growth happens, available cap becomes ind if pop>ind.
| Production of ships takes place.
| Production cap/mat/tech takes place.

Hopefully this clears things up.

Howard
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References

Galaxy Question
"Darren Lenda" <DELENDA@worldnet.att.net>
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy Question
dagibbs@qnx.com (David Gibbs)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy Question
jdc@access2.digex.net (John Cochran)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000