[cybersol]

Originally posted by JLS:
What are you talking about: Assume all intervening queues were dummy queues ???
Why would I do that.
*snip*
Where was this stated that there are; intervening queues were dummy queues in your POSTED; hypothetical situation

It was not originally stated they were dummy queues but it was stated that nothing was added to the build queues, this is a pratical way of acheiving the stated assumption.

Originally posted by JLS:
Cybersol, all you need to do now, is Study and Learn the:
AI CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES DATA FILE, Rules.
Focus on line 3, first sentence.
3. First item in the queue is selected
Unless of coarse your first 15, lines are, what, dummies. (Or all your first 15 (PPI) settings are what, unobtainable) In your: AI STATE: Prepare for Attack, Attack, Incursion

I decided to make the example more concrete by saying the 15th entry was the half way point as mentioned in the original hypothetical situation. The first fourteen entries are not dummies, they are normal construction_vehicles entries. But if I asked for 1 attack ship per 4 planets and at least 5 total the first time through the queue, and if no ships were lost and no planets colonized, then I still have 1 attack ship per 4 planets and at least 5 total the second time through the queue when I return to the Prepare for attack state. So nothing is added to the construction queue becuase I have already satisfied the construction rules. Thus the first 14 real construction_vehicle entries in the prepare for attack state do nothing the second time through the queue because the ships are already built. The first ship added to a construction queue the second time is thus the first one in the 15th entry, because of the first 15 entries only its PPI and MHAL have not been adressed yet.

In my experience, you do not get a second helping of ships from the first 14 queue entries. I have observed no ship multiplication from multiple passes through the queue.

[ June 28, 2003, 04:19: Message edited by: cybersol ]