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What Experience levels do you want in this game?

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oldmetalhead wrote on Sat, 26 April 2008 02:09

What Experience levels do you want in this game?

serious?
really?
any i guess

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[Updated on: Tue, 29 April 2008 08:09]

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neilhoward wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 06:08

I picked the gravity and temp ranges for humans. We can live in a wider band for gravity, but it would impact reproductive health. I think the race wizard radiation possibilities are wonkey. Earth mammals are exposed to more than 200 miliREM yearly from naturally occurring sources. Viable Human reproduction occurs under much greater amounts (>5000mR). I assume the games creators 1 used mR to indicate miliRADs, the dosages of which are variable depending on the type of radiation, and 2 intended the rw to measure solar radiation not terrestrial or cosmic. With those assumptions a 0-20mR band is quite generous for humans.

4 "tribes" of humans on different planets. They obviously left mother Earth some time ago before some kind of collapse of their galactic empire and have subsequently been evolving to live on whatever planet they are now on.

With the recent invention of sunscreen at least one tribe is now immune to radiation.

The other race having recently invented thermal underwear and the bikini simultaneously are now immune to temperature variations

Odd that these humans, given half a chance, don't breed like rabbits like the ones on our planet

Insisting that their PGR is 20% seems a more realistic handicap with 50 rws left over. That's tough to pay for.

Sulpholobus.

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neilhoward wrote on Mon, 28 April 2008 05:38

Sulpholobus wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 07:46 Odd that these humans, given half a chance, don't breed like rabbits like the ones on our planet What planet is that? Regional Human pgr is 4.5% at its best and those are with some of the worst economies. Planetary annual growth for humans is 1.17%. I'm sure its pointless to say evolution doesn't work that way. I guess it is no less realistic than super luminous travel. Thanks for your comments.

My mistake ... when I last looked at US population figures the rate of growth between each census averaged about 1.23 - so 20% PGR looked reasonable ... obviously I forgot to factor in that the time between each census is 10 years.

Although, I don't know if you've noticed this, but the planets in stars take an average of 10 terran years to orbit their sun

S.

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neilhoward wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 22:05

Late addition. Team one cannot build ships. You see where I am going with this.

Nowhere?

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Thanks for your feedback Sulpholobus.

Sulpholobus wrote on Mon, 28 April 2008 09:07

... when I last looked at US population figures the rate of growth between each census averaged about 1.23 - so 20% PGR looked reasonable ... obviously I forgot to factor in that the time between each census is 10 years.

No wait. I think you have something with the 20% pgr. I was just thinking if the planetary max pop was increased (to ~ Earth's projected population for 2050), and crowding was shifted to match 20% is close enough. Assuming 1/1 male/female ratio, no twins, an expected life span of fifty years, and onset of sexual maturity at ten. Each woman (with an Infant Mortality Rate of 62.5%) could produce twenty colonists. With a lot of prenatal drugs and a fundamentalist religion they are good to go.

Sulpholobus wrote on Mon, 28 April 2008 09:07

Although, I don't know if you've noticed this, but the planets in stars take an average of 10 terran years to orbit their sun S.

Now if I hadn't spent all my resources on inflammatory language and an abrasive attitude, I would have been able to afford a planetary scanner, and I would have noticed that.

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m.a@stars wrote on Mon, 28 April 2008 09:32

neilhoward wrote on Sun, 27 April 2008 22:05 You see where I am going with this. Nowhere?

To quote someone with much more experience than I have

Quote:

Anybody can move population around.

I want to prove him right.

It is not impossible. I am going to leave teams two and three with their random locations, but distribute team one within 600ly of each other.

I am running my eighth test now (first one to survive until 2490!!!). We turned over the initial colonizers to the WM to run popdrop relays on the most viable HE colonies first. Then redistributed the colonies evenly between the WM, IT, and IS (leaving IS with the worst) and got some tech trades in the process. The IT transfered their privateer to the IS so they could top off yellows accompanied by the CAs modified miner. Put up empty forts to stop bombing and invasion. Kept pop on the colonies low (under 25k) until the 3/3/3 terraforming was done on each, then traded them again. Gave the worst rad to the WM, worst temp to the IS, and worst grav to IT. By the time the second redistribution was done(took ages) the CA had enough tech to start fixing the nastier targets. Started second popdrop relay last year. Need more coffee.

Insane? Of course.
Impossible? Not until the first bit of bad news.

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neilhoward wrote on Tue, 29 April 2008 06:59

I am running my eighth test now (first one to survive until 2490!!!). We turned over the initial colonizers to the WM to run popdrop relays on the most viable HE colonies first. Then redistributed the colonies evenly between the WM, IT, and IS (leaving IS with the worst) and got some tech trades in the process. The IT transfered their privateer to the IS so they could top off yellows accompanied by the CAs modified miner. Put up empty forts to stop bombing and invasion. Kept pop on the colonies low (under 25k) until the 3/3/3 terraforming was done on each, then traded them again. Gave the worst rad to the WM, worst temp to the IS, and worst grav to IT. By the time the second redistribution was done(took ages) the CA had enough tech to start fixing the nastier targets. Started second popdrop relay last year. Need more coffee. Insane? Of course. Impossible? Not until the first bit of bad news.

Impressive!

But, competitive enough? Against two other teams, at least one of which is likely to have better econ, tech, pop, or all three than Team1?

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neilhoward wrote on Tue, 29 April 2008 11:46

I could tie a stick to a rock and it would be more aggressive?

So, as I guessed, that team's doomed. You'll find few volunteers for it, then.

Unless you intend to play it yourself?

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