Stellar manip and movement in simultaneous game

[douglas]

ToddT said:
there where lots of battles prior to that, so its safe to say ship id's are fairly random.

Not quite. I have just tested it, and I have confirmed that construction is handled one player at a time in order by player number, regardless of order of colonization of planets belonging to different empires (I didn't test order of construction within an empire). This means that ships belonging to players higher up on the list, particularly player 1, tend to have lower ID's, and therefore have an easier time escaping star destruction death traps but a harder time pursuing enemies in certain circumstances.