[JLS]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

JLS, not quite. The chances for events in Settings.txt are not chances for a system, they are instead simply the chance that an event will occur on any given turn.

As I POSTED

“Correct, the Settings Data File will have the overall BASE numbers (not fixed) at these proposed percentages for all System in the Quad.”

“Therefore, the base is now 30% Chance that an event will be called from the se4 hardcode protocols.”
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A random event is not called for in any particular system; it is generated separately, and then a target is chosen after the event is generated. Once the event occurs, then a random system, planet, ship, etc. is selected as its target.

Agreed

Without any modifiers, all systems have exactly identical chances of being hit.

This is where the CBEC modifies this chance of the event to actually occur in that system.

Those numbers are indeed fixed for the entire game (unless you change the file mid-game, of course). No facilities can have any possible affect on them. All that the facilities do is fiddle with which system gets hit, not with the chances that an event will occur.

I was explaining that the Setting Data file Numbers are a base, and that the sum will be Modified by CBEC.

An absolute SUM cannot be absolutely fixed, if it still can be further modified, or our are we just splitting hairs here, Fyron



[ October 01, 2003, 20:51: Message edited by: JLS ]