Re: Galaxy transporter design

From: bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton)

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:06:17 +0000

In article <andre.712487643@galaxy> andre@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Andre Verweij) writes:
>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 haven't seen many players moving MAT around (unless they were the
ones I've been bombing (:-) ). However, I have found it usefull to do
so. In the mid-game, where there are few planets nearby to colonize, I
switched part (10%) of my merchant marine to MAT runs. It is pretty
much up in the air as far as I am concerned. To have enough cargo
ships to make it work on an empire wide scale, is impracticle (or at
least I found it so). On a scale much smaller than that, say between
several pairs of planets, it isn't even going to be noticable. I
believe that I once figured out that, for the Zethrin empire, circa
turn 40 (9 planets, 4800 ind), that running my S=34.15 R=9.98 planet
as a MAT source, and making up the deficit from my homeworld's
stockpile of MAT, would increase ship production by about 10 mass.

In a game where Resources can be < 1, you might get as much as a 5%
increase. I'm in the early stages of such a game, so I don't know how
much a difference it'll make.....

Howard

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
Re: Galaxy transporter design
andre@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Andre Verweij)
Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:14:03 +0000