Re: Galaxy Coding question

From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 18:41:46 +0000

From article <vic.709403069@vulcan>, by vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Glenn Dickins):
> Hello, Glenn here,
> I was wondering if anyway playing around withe the galaxy code (Russell wallaces galaxy)
> Has figured out how to add to the turn report , in the planet section the maximum tonnage a planet can
> produce for 1 turn? I thought i had it but it doesnt work :(
> Email vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au please
> Thanx heaps
>
Your production seems to based on the industry value at the start of the
turn (unloading captial goods before production doesn't help). I am not sure
when population changes occur, but I would guess that the beginning population
is used for calculating production.
You also need to know how much material goods are going to be available. And
since the amount of materials needed depends on what you are building, you
need to know what kind of stuff you are going to build. I would guess that
unloading material goods can help your current production, but I haven't
tried that.
If the population is going to max out this turn then you have to subtract the
production of colonists from your total production to get your usable
production.
When you calculate your production you want to round everything conservatively
since its a disaster to try to produce a ship that uses just over the amount
of production available.
An example of production of ships at your home planet:
Since population = industry = 1000, your base production will be 1000.
You will need to take care of 10% of 1000 = 100 people. At 8 people per
colony unit gives 12.5 colonies. This will use 5 * 12.5 = 62.5 production and
need 6.25 materials. A homeworld will use 1/10 production per material. So
the colonists will need another .625 production to make the material needed.
So that a total of 63.125 production is used for colonists leaving 936.875
production for ships. The base cost per ship unit is 10 production. There
is also a material cost of 1 which will need .1 industry to produce. So that
the total production cost per ship unit will be 10.1. The total number of
ship units that can be produced are 936.875 / 10.1 = 92.75990 .
What I would prefer to see is a better version of the rules that state
exactly what order everything occurs in and the exact formula used to
calculate your chance of hitting a target ship. The turn order description
now only covers some of things that happen during your turn and does not
allow you to figure out manual cargo movement or production without
experimenting to figure out how things work.
Also the planet reports should be independent of the map. Since the planet
reports are more important you need to map the whole galaxy. This makes the
map itself hard to use for close in stuff. The planet naming feature also
causes problems for the gms. If people want to be really obnoxious they can
swap names of their planets to get enemy ships to go to the wrong place.

References

Galaxy Coding question
vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Glenn Dickins)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 16:24:29 +0000

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Galaxy Coding question
vic@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Glenn Dickins)
Wed, 24 Jun 1992 16:24:29 +0000