Re: A few Galaxy questions

From: haines@ENG3.eng.monash.edu.au (Andrew Haines, Civil, 1/113)

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 04:10:18 +0000

In article <CDE4wG.8K3@cs.uct.ac.za> jmarks@cs.uct.ac.za (Jon Marks) writes:

>I'm new to the world of galaxy, and there are a few fine points that I can't
>figure out from the v3.4 documentation. I was wondering if any of you galaxy
>masters could help me out. Here they are:

None of the "masters" seem to have replied to your post, so I guess one of us
"kibbutzers" will have to have a go :^)

>o It takes 8 population units to make a colonist. Do the colonist units turn
>  back into 8 population when thawed out?

That's right.

>o Is it possible to load a ship with something, send it to another planet
>  which it can reach in one turn, and then unload it straight away? Is
>  this possible without using routes? Or with routes? I tried it in my orders
>  but the turn checker gave a problem message, saying the ship I wanted to
>  unload is still in HyperSpace.

You can only do this with routes, or if the planet you want to unload at
is one of your planets and you have the AUTOUNLOAD option set.  (And if doing
this by routes, be aware that you must have a route set for each cargo type
arriving at the planet.  And also note that the planet with the route set to
the destination planet does NOT have to be the origin planet of the cargo ship)

>o If you use a routes, will it fill up one ship entirely, then start on the
>  next ship in the group, or will it divide the cargo. For example, if you
>  wanted to transfer 20 units of cargo, and you have 2 ships in a group that
>  can each carry 20 units, would it send one full ship, or two half full ones.

Two half full ones :(

>o In the game I am playing, some players have populations of 1026.67, 1017.14
>  and 1021.05 after turn 2. Mathematically, I can't see how the last two figures  are reached, unless the planets are both very small. Any suggestions?
>  Can you load non-integral numbers of colonists onto a ship?

One aspect of GALAXY that took me a while to get used to is that virtually
NOTHING is restricted to integer numbers.  So a small cargo ship
(say 1 0 0 0 1) can carry 1.1 units of cargo of whatever type you like.  If
forty such ships were loaded (as a group) with colonists at a planet with 10
colonists, each cargo ship would get 10/40 =.25 colonists each.

Cheers,  Yobbos (Galaxy Gamma)

Andrew Haines                       \ "You're all individuals!"
Computer Systems Officer              \ "WE'RE ALL INDIVIDUALS!"
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia \ "I'm not!" Monty Python:Life of Brian

References

A few Galaxy questions
jmarks@cs.uct.ac.za (Jon Marks)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 10:24:15 +0000

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A few Galaxy questions
jmarks@cs.uct.ac.za (Jon Marks)
Wed, 15 Sep 1993 10:24:15 +0000