New PBW game - Great Experiment 3 - Page 5

TerranC · #41 January 9th, 2004, 04:21 AM

Wow. That was the most simplistic turn I've EVER played.

I can just tell this is going to be fun.

Edit: doh; posted while typing.

[ January 09, 2004, 02:21: Message edited by: TerranC ]

geoschmo · #42 January 9th, 2004, 04:21 AM

Ok, I ended up going with 100k starting points because I realized in a test game that with 5K starting points you don't have enough resources to build a space port and a mineral facility, and your economy crashes before you can get started. Don't want that to happen, so you all should have 50K in storage now. Also you probably got a few techs researched with the first turn. That was all because of the AI using those 100K research points. What you have now is what you will have until you rebuild your homeworld.

Good luck.

TerranC · #43 January 9th, 2004, 04:22 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Ok, I ended up going with 100k starting points because I realized in a test game that with 5K starting points you don't have enough resources to build a space port and a mineral facility, and your economy crashes before you can get started. Don't want that to happen, so you all should have 50K in storage now. Also you probably got a few techs researched with the first turn. That was all because of the AI using those 100K research points. What you have now is what you will have until you rebuild your homeworld.

Good luck.

Shoot. Does this mean I have to play my turn again?

geoschmo · #44 January 9th, 2004, 04:24 AM

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Originally posted by TerranC:
Shoot. Does this mean I have to play my turn again?

Nope, I figured that all out before I uploaded the first turn to PBW. You are fine.

geoschmo · #45 January 9th, 2004, 04:25 AM

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Originally posted by Nodachi:
Geo, could you reset my empire, please. I goofed and took a shipset someone else is using.

Crud, I didn't see this post until I made the first turn.

Slynky · #46 January 9th, 2004, 04:28 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
I will be rated in this game. This makes 3 of us: Gandalph, Alneyan, and me.

I haven't seen the turn yet...I just read the news to the game. With the alteration in mineral assignment at the beginning of the game, I retract my statement about being rated in this game. I will NOT be rated in this game now.

geoschmo · #47 January 9th, 2004, 04:34 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
I will be rated in this game. This makes 3 of us: Gandalph, Alneyan, and me.

I haven't seen the turn yet...I just read the news to the game. With the alteration in mineral assignment at the beginning of the game, I retract my statement about being rated in this game. I will NOT be rated in this game now.

Really? That makes a difference? Doesn't it affect everybody equally? Or were you planning on most of the players missing that point and so you'd have a quadrant full of easy pickings or something?

AMF · #48 January 9th, 2004, 04:50 AM

"alteration in mineral assignment"? Did I miss something?

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
I will be rated in this game. This makes 3 of us: Gandalph, Alneyan, and me.

I haven't seen the turn yet...I just read the news to the game. With the alteration in mineral assignment at the beginning of the game, I retract my statement about being rated in this game. I will NOT be rated in this game now.
Really? That makes a difference? Doesn't it affect everybody equally? Or were you planning on most of the players missing that point and so you'd have a quadrant full of easy pickings or something?

AMF · #49 January 9th, 2004, 04:52 AM

OK, it's counter-intuitive, but I presume that the AI tried to build a space port before anything else becuase I can't use ANY resources until I have a spaceport, even though I'm not really transporting those resources off my crappy homeworld, right?

thanks,

Alarik

Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Ok, I ended up going with 100k starting points because I realized in a test game that with 5K starting points you don't have enough resources to build a space port and a mineral facility, and your economy crashes before you can get started. Don't want that to happen, so you all should have 50K in storage now. Also you probably got a few techs researched with the first turn. That was all because of the AI using those 100K research points. What you have now is what you will have until you rebuild your homeworld.

Good luck.

geoschmo · #50 January 9th, 2004, 04:59 AM

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Originally posted by alarikf:
"alteration in mineral assignment"? Did I miss something?

What he is refering to is that I changed teh starting resources from 5K as advertised to 100K for the game setup.

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Originally posted by alarikf:
OK, it's counter-intuitive, but I presume that the AI tried to build a space port before anything else becuase I can't use ANY resources until I have a spaceport, even though I'm not really transporting those resources off my crappy homeworld, right?

thanks,

Alarik

You need a space port even for your homeworld to get full value from your resource facilities. For systems outside your homesystem you get nothing without a space port. For your homesystem you get a fraction, 50% I think but I can't remmeber, without a space port. Yes, it's a bit counter intuitive.

[ January 09, 2004, 02:59: Message edited by: geoschmo ]