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| Re: Which alliance bigger? |
Wed, 30 April 2003 13:17   |
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 pgarnold |
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| Raindancer wrote on Tue, 29 April 2003 16:35 |
{not in character}
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.
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{not in character}
It has been established by the Knights, as independent observer, the level of activity in the region. I would like to point out that a number of the things you say is true but that this info is then stored in the History file, not in the M file. Updates are of course in the M file. The lack of Citadel activity means a lot must be going on in the Citadel queues such as research, secret building of new warship, etc. I have just only this year detected a new pen scanner scout ship in use by the Citadels, so massive amounts of pen-scanner data can be eliminated as a source of M file size (they are ferret scanners). The Citadels have, for the most part, been hiding behind Pilgrim minefields, have not even combined the same design DD at planets to get stacking advantages for defense. So if they are not attacking on this front as least, not moving warships, they don't have minefields, then what is going on to make their M files so large???
I noticed the Pilgrim Minister of Misinformation (PMM) did NOT challenge me when I stated I was not in the top 3 in ranking. (By the way, that does not automatically mean I am #4. One has to put a cut off in at some point, so I choose 3.) The reason for no response from the PMM is because he knows who is in those positions by observing his ally and his own files.
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