| Re: PP packet teraforming - chances calculator |
Mon, 13 March 2006 20:28   |
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| Tomasoid wrote on Mon, 13 March 2006 17:46 |
Hi!
| Dogthinkers wrote on Mon, 13 March 2006 04:34 |
As far as I see, you only retrieve about 10% of the minerals used for this purpose... Does that sound about right?
So you will get a mean terraforming of just over 10% (permaforming 1%) with a 2100kt packet, at a cost of 150 resources and with about 1900kt of minerals lost.
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(Minerals recovered are 1/3. From 2100 you lose 1400, not 1900.)
Think in another way: how much cost your mines have? How many mines you need to mine lost 1400kT in 5 years? Add these resources to packet launching cost, and you will have "actual" cost" of terraforming in resources equivalent.
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I just lobbed a 10,010kt Ironium packet at warp 5 at a colonised, but undefended world. When I recolonised it there was 1147kt of ironium on the surface. Under 12% recovered
I then lobbed a 5040kt Boranium packet at warp 5 at an uncolonised world. When I colonised it there was 566kt on the surface. Under 12% recovered.
I then lobbed a 2030kt Boranium packet at warp 5 at a colonised (no defenses, no driver) world with high enough population to survive. 226kt were recovered. Just over 11% recovered.
I then lobbed a 350/350/350kt mixed packet. 38kt of each mineral was recovered. A touch under 11% recovered.
The empirical evidence here is that approximately 11% of the minerals are recovered (at worlds without drivers or defenses.)
(Obviously these throws were with PP and thrown slowly, so no degredation took place in flight.)
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