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Alexan Drite · 9 Mar 2003, 04:03

I want to know some things that the manual left out so I can plan my strategy for next week better. I'm going to be asking a lot of questions, but I'm sure most of them can be answered yes/no/one or two words.
1: How much income do we get in terms of Metal, Crystal, and Eon, JUST for having our planet. If you don't have a mine or asteroid. In past rounds this was like a 100 or 250 per tick.
2: Just to be sure, there are reduced travel times for Galaxy, and a slightly reduced for cluster?
3: The capture rate was (homeplanet/virtual-hostilefleet networth)/10. Is this percentage of the roids that the total hostile fleet will capture? If I attack someone 10x my fleet's scoe, and enough of my apods survive, I could theoretically get ALL of the roids? What if two people are attacking? Is this just randomly split along astropods(i.e. who ever has the most apods will get the most roids), or is it based on the total fleet?(If I have 80% of the attacking force I get 80% of the roids)? If this is the case, what happens if I only have enough pods to get half of the total astroid pods I'm supposed to but the other attackers make it up in terms of a lot more astroid pods, do they get the extra roids, or are the roids not captured for the round?
Is there a minimum number of roids to capture? Is there a minimum number of roids a defender must have before one can be taken(in previous rounds this has been 7 or 10). Is the percentage rounded up?
4: What are the costs of the different waves? I can't find the wave costs anywhere.
5: A couple ships say they target roids, how do these ships work? Are they destroyed when they target the roid?
6: When a stealing ship 'steals' a target ship, is the stealing ship destroyed? (I.e. if the pirate steals a ship then it's destroyed but you gain the new ship).
7: Wave reflector is listed as buildable, but is it PDS or is it a wave? It looks like a wave, but isn't listed in either group.
8: The ship stats table leaves out time to build. Where can I go to find out how long it takes to build each of those ships?

Thanks I guess that's it.

Alexan Drite · 9 Mar 2003, 04:09

One more: Do we still get extra resources for each roid under the 250th we have? If we have one it gives us 499, if we have two we get 250+498, three 500+497, ect. Or is it straight 250.

SYMM · 9 Mar 2003, 04:48

1. 250 of each

2. -1 eta for cluster and parellel, -3 ( I think) for galaxy.

3. 15% maximum roid-cap from a planet, splt proportionally between attackers. (based on fleetscore).

4.err...I forget

5. They are astropods, as in previous rounds. If they are not killed/stunned at the end of a tick they will capture roids (up to 15%). They can only be killed by other ships, not by capturing roids.

6. Stealing ships "die" when they have stolen ships equal to their own cost.

7. Wave reflectors are built on the waves page, and are not PDS.
They are "killed" when a scan is blocked (there is a formula for the chance of them "dying"...)

8. 4hrs for fighters, 8 for corvettes, 12 for frigates, 16 for de, 20 for CR, 24 for BS

9. 1 roids gives 500, 2 gives 2*499, 3 gives 3*498 etc.

(THis is based on my memory of previous rounds, I'm sure I'll be corected if i'm wrong...)

Tactitus · 9 Mar 2003, 15:20

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Originally posted by SYMM
2. -1 eta for cluster and parellel, -3 ( I think) for galaxy.

Galaxy travel time is the travel time listed in the stats tables plus one tick. It's never altered by any travel time upgrades. I wrote a couple of FAQs explaining how travel time was computed; but they kept getting deleted. :/

Chax · 9 Mar 2003, 15:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Tactitus
Galaxy travel time is the travel time listed in the stats tables plus one tick. It's never altered by any travel time upgrades. I wrote a couple of FAQs explaining how travel time was computed; but they kept getting deleted. :/

It's always been a mystery for me why ship stats travel time isn't listed as one of the following:

1. Galaxy travel time
2. Universe travel time without research

Instead it's listed as some odd number that has only been acheved oddly enough last round during in galaxy overburn defense.

Tactitus · 9 Mar 2003, 17:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Chax
It's always been a mystery for me why ship stats travel time isn't listed as one of the following:

1. Galaxy travel time
2. Universe travel time without research

Instead it's listed as some odd number that has only been acheved oddly enough last round during in galaxy overburn defense.

Because that would make too much sense!

Legolas · 9 Mar 2003, 17:28

Noted for round 10

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Incidentally.. it makes as much sence as the parallel navigation in the galaxy screen....

SYMM · 9 Mar 2003, 17:40

1 out of 9 wrong, while drunk isn't bad going

SYMM for helpdesk mod...

Legolas · 10 Mar 2003, 01:53

Oh, btw.

Once I get back to uni this week will update the manual with additions, as per asked on this subforum.