Re: Galaxy Question (Cargo & Colonization)

From: frv95alk@mds.mdh.se (Anders)

Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Bob King <SubBob@camden.tds.net> skriver:
>1) Can ships carry less than their cargo capacity?  For example, if a

Yes, but you can't order it to do so directly.

>planet has 5.70 COL and Group 7 consists of 3 ships (2.00 cargo
>capacity each), what happens when I give "Load 7 COL"?  Will it only
>load two of them? or would the last ship have 1.7 cargo?

Cargo is distributed evenly between the ships in the group when
you explicitly load cargo. But if you have routes set up they
will maximize the usage and instead only send ut as many fully
loaded ships as needed - however they will always distribute it
evenly so that they travel at equal speed.

So it will load all 3 ships and distribute it evenly between those
3 ships.

>I know Groups must consist of identical ships, so would the answer be
>any different if I did "Load 7 COL 2" followed by "Load 7 COL"?

Yes, you will then get 1 group consisting of 2 ships loaded with 2 COL
each and one with 1.3 COL

>2) Will you gain "ownership" of a planet by dropping CAP on it? or
>must you put COL on it first?  I'm confused as to how some players
>have claimed so many planets so fast.  My first guess is that they are
>only putting one COL on each planet, but even then I don't seem to
>have that many colonists to go around yet.

You only gain ownership of a planet by dropping colonist on it.
There is no magic for claiming a lot of planets early you just
load a small amout of colonist on a large groups and splut the group.

Example: On your forst turn build 49 ships of type 1 0 0 0 1 and
since a home planet also produces 10 COL you can order:

L 1 COL 9
L 1 COL

A cargo bay of 1 holds 1.1 cargo and thus the first 9 ships
holds 9.9 of the COL. They can be sent to a planet you want
to develop fast.

Group 1 now holds 40 ships with 0.0025 COL each and will
be excellent to send out to take many planets.

Also the 40 ships will travel faster, which means that at turn
3 you can own 42 planets if they are within range...

Anders

References

Galaxy Question (Cargo & Colonization)
SubBob@camden.tds.net (Bob King)
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000