Re: Galaxy transporter design

From: andre@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Andre Verweij)

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:14:03 +0000

I am also wondering what people are transporting. Ofcourse everybody
transports Colonists and Capital, but who produces Mat on one planet and
moves it to another. I am currently in a game with the following situation.

Planet A : Size 650 Resource factor 9.7
Planet B : Size 800 Resource factor 0.67
Distance between A and B is 0.777
On this moment I am trying to find out if it is interesting to have the
Materials produced on Planet A and moved to Planet B. I guess that production ofmaterials and the ships take three turns, so I have at least to wait about
20 turns before it pays off.

But now the ships design. My freighters have only to move 0.777 in one turn
when loaded. My drive tech is 2.84, so I should have a drive/cargo factor
of 1/36. This leads to a design :
 1 0 0 0 36.

However I can't make two such ships on planet A, so I will change this into
either 1 0 0 0 31
or     1.xx 0 0 0 63
or some numbers closely to that.

Has anyone tried this thing out too? If it takes so long before Material
shipping pays off in this quite interesting setup, isn't the game unbalanced
for the case of materials ?

Andre Verweij

References

Galaxy transporter design
jerry@uni-paderborn.de (Gerald Siek)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:46:59 +0000
Re: Galaxy transporter design
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:26:11 +0000

Referenced By

Galaxy transporter design
jerry@uni-paderborn.de (Gerald Siek)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:46:59 +0000
Re: Galaxy transporter design
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:26:11 +0000