Re: Galaxy - Industry

From: michael@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Johnson)

Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Tim Booth <timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au> writes:

>eherz@hr.house.gov destroyed my iddullic Galaxy when they wrote:
>>
>> I'm a new Galaxy player currently involved in two games.
>> My question is about industry growth?  How exaclty does it work?
>> The rules aren't exactly too clear on this.  From what I can see as long
>> as a planet is producing CAP it will have increasing industry.  However,
>> I've been doing this and the growth rate is extremely slow.

>When CurrentIndustry is low, rate of growth is low...

>I developed, very slowly,
>a formula that is right to within 2 dec places. The largest effector on growth
>is the Resources level of the planet... it's a bit of a multiplier...

>At its most basic, ignoring shipped MAT and CAP, the formula says:

>Increase in Industry = CurrentProduction/5+(1/R)

The brackets are in the wrong place (a typo).
From the Galaxy 3.5 docs, my equation is:
Capital Produced= Industry + (Population-Industry)/4
                  ----------------------------------
                          5+1/R

>That is, to paraphrase the rules, if you produce CAP (given 1 unit of CAP = 1
>point increase in Industry), the amount produced depends on your current
>production. You require 5 production points, plus a unit of MAT to produce 1
>CAP. The amount of MAT you produce depends upon the Resources of the planet... a
>resources of 1 requires 1 point to produce 1 MAT... so it follows the inverse of
>the resources is the number of points of production required to produce 1 unit
>of it...

Michael
--
"... Choose your option: [Y]es [N]o [M]aybe [I]'m confused"

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Re: Galaxy - Industry
Tim Booth <timbooth@cce.cce.usyd.edu.au>
Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000