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| Re: Which alliance bigger? |
Tue, 29 April 2003 16:35   |
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Just take a look at the size of the M files for all races. While this is not totally accurate, it can be very useful to get a good indicator of what is going on when the actual file is not available. For the current year, 2447, we have:
m1 Sivxa 6 kb
m2 VisiGoths 15 kb
m3 Rome 9 kb
m4 Citadels 15 kb
m5 {}{}{}{}{ 8 kb
m6 Chyortoids 8 kb
m7 Fides 15 kb
m8 Pilgrims 22 kb
m9 Bugs 11 kb
m10 Knights 16 kb
Now M file size is also an indication of activity as well as power. In the above we see the Pilgrims are in 1st place! 
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From what I have seen, the size of the M file is not a good indicator of rank. The M file contains information related to actions of the player. So higher levels of MicroManagement; more items in the build queues, terraforming, laying minefields, remote mining, cargo transfer, ram scoops, etc. will all increase the size of the .M file. Other items included are SCANNING results, number of fleets built, ship designs, and battles, and waypoints set. A race with better scanners knows more about other items in the universe. A race having more battles, and thus also knowing more enemy ship designs will also have a bigger M file. Races with automated cargo transfers and waypoints will have larger M files.
So the Pilgrim file might be biggest because they have many small minelayers, excellent scanners, many minefields (which can also increase scanning), minefield detonations, ad nauseum...
Before playing in autohost I played with a group that sent out all results in one big zip file. It was very easy to see the size of the files generated. There were times when I was in third or fourth place, but had the largest M file. Another game where I was in first place, I had far from the largest file.
In summary, the size of the M file can provide SOME information, but you have to know a lot about the other players in the game to be able to get accurate information from it.
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