Re: Galaxy transporter design

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

Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 01:55:09 +0000

In article <92213.201538JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Joshua Kronengold <JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>In article <l7dk7sINNh6@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>,
> I said:
>>Task Force Games Star Fire, which is somewhat similar to Galaxy,
>>allows you a 10% discount for building ships of the same design, at
>>the same shipyard, if it is done at the same time....
>>
>That wouldn't affect the problem, as I see it, since it would affect both large
>and small craft equally (wouldn't it?)

Nope, there is a difference. My homeworld can only build 1 mass 92.75
ship, but it can build 92 mass 1 drones. Given the 10% discount, it
can build (assuming no raw materials):
        936.875 cap available
1 drone  10.1 cap
----------------
        926.775 cap /
        -----------
           (9 cap / mass unit + 0.1 cap for raw materials) =
101.8 drones, for a total of 102 (104 if raw materials are available).

You get 34 mass 3 ships instead of 30, or 10 mass 10 instead of 9.
With the occasionly huge (1500+) planets you can find in some other
games, things can get even more interesting.

I would expect that the discount would encourage players to build
smaller ships, rather than investing in large numbers of 150 ton
nasties. Large planets (homeworlds) would become even more valuable,
since 10 100's would now produce less than 1 1000.

Howard

References

Re: Galaxy transporter design
bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:40:49 +0000
Re: Galaxy transporter design
bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:10:20 +0000
Re: Galaxy transporter design
Joshua Kronengold <JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:15:38 +0000