What gets executed first in Simultaneous games?

[Dragonlord]

Hi all,

OK, after playing about 20 turns in my first PBW game, I have some questions about Simultaneous play games.

I wonder which orders get executed first, or if there is some subroutine to execute them in an order that is to my benefit. My current game is too tricky right now with enemies and such for me to go experimenting with these things so I hope I can draw once again upon some experienced players here.

Let me give you some examples.

1: I have a minelayer (empty cargo) moving to a planet with "pick up mines" order and then moving away from the planet. The planet has no mines in cargo but is producing them this turn. Will the mines be in the planet's cargo before the minelayer tries to pick them up? In other words, are planetary construction queues always executed before ship movement?

2: I have a colonizer heading for a planet to colonize. It will get there next turn. I also have a population transport with orders to move to that same planet and drop off population. Will the colony be established first, so that it can accept the new population, or will the population from the cargo ship be dumped into space?

3: If both I and another player are racing to a tech planet and we both have colonizers who will get there next turn, who will win? The player with the highest score? The player who happened to sign up for the PBW game first because he is earlier in the queue?

4: similar to (3). I have an attack ship two sectors from an alien ship with orders to kill it and then move on exploring. The alien ship has orders to flee (in the wrong direction for me). If my ship gets to move first it will kill and then continue on in the right direction. If the alien moves first I will still catch him but be two turns of movement away from where I want to be. Who gets to go first?

That's it for now, hope you all can help.
Thanks in advance,

Dragonlord

[capnq]

1. I don't know; I think I've tried something like this, but I don't remember if it worked.

2. I believe your ships move in the order they were built. I don't think the transport will space the population; if you try to drop more than a planet will hold, the extra just stays on the transport.

3 & 4. I'm pretty sure all movement is in order of player number; this was discussed in another thread about who moves first in combat.

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[Dragonlord]

I have tried scenario 1, did not work. Your ships has to stay at the planet till next turn before it can load cargo :-(

[LeTharg]

Here's what I think I've seen posted elsewhere:

The turn gets divided into 30 days and these days are cycled player by player in order. Movement is by sector so a ship with 6 moves would move once every 5 days (I don't know if it moves first on day 1 or day 5 or ???). Build queues divide the work they can do into 30 parts and go until either end-of-month or work complete.

Does this model fit observations? I haven't tested it myself and don't really try to take advantage but it seems to fit some of the stuff I have seen.

So most of those senarios would depend on turn order, number of moves, construction cost etc. For example, in scenario 4 if you are two sectors away, catching the other ship would be impossible (2 sectors away) if you have the same number of movement points.

On the other hand, if you were one sector away, who moves first might determine the answer.

If anyone really knows how it works, please post (especially those who know the code).

[CaptSpoogy]

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What gets executed first in Simultaneous games?

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My empire does.


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[JenMax]

Capt Spoongy, if your empire is execuited first.. then your empire is dead... so why do you play... <big smile>