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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Wed, 30 May 2007 04:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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goober wrote on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:16

I wouldn't be averse to just being able to set my production queues and having a mineral management system that would move the minerals between my planets in my clear region of influence so I didn't have to worry about it. I tend to just shift a big chunk of minerals to particular planets and they are my production centres. I'd be happy with something that did something as coarse as that.


Private experiments show that is indeed doable:

Deal find which production center will need minerals after the current turn's production
Deal find which nearby mineral piles will sit unused
Deal match the two by distance/availability of freighters
Deal do almost the same for breeders/colonies/maxed-out worlds
Deal use the same freighter(s) for several related runs. Build more freighters if needed

I found the last point to be somewhat elusive, and planning for more than one turn requires the assumption that building Qs/priorities won't change too much. Whip

Special situations, such as AR mineral Fountains supplying the owner and allied races weren't contemplated. Sherlock


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I'd be even happier if I could automatically designate a particular planet as a base for all new ships and then they made there way there by the quickest available route,merging as they go, so I could then distribute them where I wanted them. I usually have to spend what seems like an age setting this up via the routing command.


Well, once setup, routing works pretty well. Allowing for "routes" to use the necessary intermediate stops, for refueling or to avoid overgating, would be nice, although perhaps not worth the hassle. Teleport

But you pointed out something that's been lurking on my mind since forever, and that Stars partially does already when "merging" with a planet:

Deal create a new "merge" flavor such as "merge with possible identical tokens" on arrival or perhaps "merge with any fleets carrying the same merge flag AND route"... Cool


[Updated on: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:10]




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