| Re: Stars! All Round Competition |
Wed, 25 February 2004 21:02   |
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 LEit |
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Registered: April 2003
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Worrying about cap ships in the score is probably not worth it. The formual for points from cap ships is:
(Cap ships * worlds * 8) / (cap ships + worlds)
What this means, is that you cannot get more then 8 points per world, even if you have a billion cap ships. In most games, this just means you get an extra 6-8 points per world, meaning that if score counts, you should colonize everything.
If anything you should make cap ships count more, divide the cap ships by a factor and multiply the score by the same factor. Make the formula something like this:
(cap ships / n * worlds * 8 * n) / (cap ship / n + worlds)
Which reduces to:
(cap ships * worlds * 8) / (cap ship / n + worlds)
Play with the numbers in a spreadsheet some, the formulas can be hard to grasp until you do.
[Updated on: Wed, 25 February 2004 21:03]
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| Re: Stars! All Round Competition |
Thu, 26 February 2004 07:15 |
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| mazda |
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| LEit wrote on Thu, 26 February 2004 02:02 |
The formual for points from cap ships is:
(Cap ships * worlds *  / (cap ships + worlds)
What this means, is that you cannot get more then 8 points per world, even if you have a billion cap ships. In most games, this just means you get an extra 6-8 points per world, meaning that if score counts, you should colonize everything.
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It's quite a clever score formula.
If you have lots of Cap ships, then the score is effectively capped by worlds.
And vice versa.
For equal numbers of each then you end up getting only 4 points per ship.
Your proposal (to divide the cap ships by n) means that the number of worlds is more likely to exceed ships/n (except for massive numbers of ships or very few planets) and so the formula becomes capped by ships/n in more cases, which is what we want.
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