Re: Another Galaxy utility

From: alan@jade.uucp (Alan Covington)

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 17:57:44 +0000

Unfortunately, the code does not do the ship mass production
calculation as shown in the post and quoted below.
	// i is industry level of the planet
	// p is the population of the planet
	// r is the resource level of the planet
	// s is the amount of stock piled raw materials
 	ei = i + (p-i)/4.0;			// production units
 	esm = (ei < s*10.0) ? ei : s*10.0;	// stock piled raw
						// materials in
						// production units

m = esm/10.0 + (ei - esm) / (10.0 + 1.0/r );	// ship mass production

For the case of building one ship, the code only uses the raw
materials on the planet if they cover the requirements of the ship
being built.  If they don't cover the requirements then new raw
materials are produced to build the ship.  I recently got caught by
this discrepancy between the "obvious" way to use raw materials and
the way they are actually used.

I don't know what happens if one is building several small ships and
there are raw materials for some of them, but not for all of them.
Perhaps some one with the code can tell us what happens.

--
Alan Covington, Jade Simulations International Corp., Calgary, Alta.
alan@jade.ab.ca
--
Alan Covington, Jade Simulations International Corp., Calgary, Alta.
alan@jade.ab.ca

References

Another Galaxy utility
dagibbs@quantum.on.ca (David Gibbs)
Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:12:37 +0000

Referenced By

Another Galaxy utility
dagibbs@quantum.on.ca (David Gibbs)
Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:12:37 +0000