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Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution

Fri, 17 August 2007 08:30

RobO

Crewman 2nd Class

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Registered: February 2007
Location: Denmark

I have picked up Stars! again recently, and so far have played 1-1 with a frend. A good deal of my playing has however been race testing (myself and one AI civ). I have noticed that there's A LOT of randomness in the distribution of planet quality (hab) as well as mineral content. So much that it makes my race testing difficult. For example, I recently played two identical setups (medium, normal, distant) with the same race and one AI civ, and got 18k at 2450 the first time (with a good draw of planets and minerals) and 12k the next time (with mediocre planets and minerals). My playing style was pretty much the same (I have it written down so that I can remember it when I go live with this race).

Can other people confirm this observation, and how do you deal with it?

It is also a problem in 1-1 games, as planet and mineral distribution sometimes can decide the outcome to a larger degree than player skill. Our response to this so far has been to increase the universe size from small to medium. Any other ideas?

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		Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Fri, 17 August 2007 08:30
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Ptolemy on Fri, 17 August 2007 11:12
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: PaulCr on Fri, 17 August 2007 12:04
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Fri, 17 August 2007 13:34
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: PaulCr on Fri, 17 August 2007 13:58
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Ptolemy on Fri, 17 August 2007 14:11
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Fri, 17 August 2007 14:33
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Ptolemy on Fri, 17 August 2007 15:34
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: iztok on Sat, 18 August 2007 14:04
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Sat, 18 August 2007 14:14
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: iztok on Sat, 18 August 2007 15:18
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 19 August 2007 20:37
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Sat, 18 August 2007 01:54
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Mon, 20 August 2007 01:00
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: gible on Mon, 20 August 2007 02:57
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: RobO on Mon, 20 August 2007 06:08
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Soobie on Fri, 12 October 2007 05:56
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: PaulCr on Fri, 12 October 2007 06:36
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 October 2007 08:05
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: yartrebo on Fri, 12 October 2007 11:58
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 October 2007 14:52
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: yartrebo on Fri, 12 October 2007 16:25
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 October 2007 18:33
		[LONG] Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: ck_drknes on Fri, 12 October 2007 22:54
		Re: [LONG] Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Sat, 13 October 2007 07:58
		Re: [LONG] Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: Drakhyulla on Sun, 14 October 2007 01:33
		Re: [LONG] Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Sun, 14 October 2007 04:05
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: PaulCr on Fri, 12 October 2007 16:22
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 October 2007 18:13
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: ck_drknes on Sat, 13 October 2007 17:45
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: ck_drknes on Sun, 14 October 2007 14:16
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 October 2007 07:04
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: ck_drknes on Sun, 21 October 2007 20:47
		Re: Problem with randomness in planet distrtibution By: ck_drknes on Sun, 21 October 2007 21:44

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