Re: A few Galaxy questions

From: peiper@phoenix.cs.uga.edu (Garfield)

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 15:30:18 +0000

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

Yes. It is just easier to ship Colonists than Capital. That is
why most people have more Population than Capital, cause Population is
easier to ship, and is the majority of the cases grows faster than capital.
(I believe if the planet is below 1 resource pop grows faster than cap.)

>
>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.

If you have a route set up from planet A to planet B, it will send
the ships at planet A to planet B and unload them then auto. You do not
however get the option of unloading it manually, it is all done with
routes.

>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.

A Route will fill as many groups as it can. So that if you have each
group with 1 ship in each of them, then it will fill as many as it can
to capacity and then put the rest on one ship. But if you have 50 ships
in one group, and it is the first group at the planet (ie lowest group
number) then it will evenly load all 50 ships and send them.
	The best way to get around this is to do all the loading by
hand, and then let them go on there Routes. So if you have a cargo ship
which carries 10, and another that carries 100. TELL the program to
load the 10 capacity ships with COL, and the 100 capacity ship with CAP.
	When you have a route, ANYTHING that is already loaded will also
be sent from that planet. So if I have a ship that is loaded it will
fly to the routed planet and unload.

>
>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?

You cannot load a specific number onto a cargo ship, but if you
have say 10 COL Units, and 20 ships, a do a L 1 COL, (ie load the whole
group with COL) you will get .5 COL's on each ship.

If you need any more questions answered let me know.

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