Atmospheric conditioners

[Fyron]

On any turn that an AC has been in existence for more turns than it's Ability 1 value, the atmosphere gets converted to that breathed by the largest population group. 100 hydrogen, 80 oxygen, 80 carbon dioxide results in a conVersion to Hydrogen. If the population is even (100 hydrogen and 100 oxygen), the atmosphere is not converted. AC will convert the atmosphere over and over again each turn if you fiddle with the pop levels.

[ June 17, 2003, 22:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[mottlee]

Will it not just change it to the one with the most when it was built, even if you change pop?

[Fyron]

It changes the atm to that breathed by whatever the majority of the pop is when it does the conVersion, not when it was built. Less data has to be saved that way. And, it will do a conVersion every single turn after X turns passed if it is able to. It is not every X turns.

[dogscoff]

I didn't know it would "update" the atmosphere to reflect the curretn population. That's... odd. But useful, I guess.

Here's a question though: When it's working out the population levels, does it look for the largest atmosphere grouping or the largest racial grouping?

If I have a planet with:
12 million humans (oxy)
9 million druk (mehtane)
8 million Xi (methane)
will it think

code:

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12>9 AND 10>8 

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and therefore change the atmos to oxy, or will it see that

code:

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12<(9+8)

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and change it to methane?

[ June 18, 2003, 11:55: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[minipol]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

code:

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12>9 AND 10>8 

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and therefore change the atmos to oxy, or will it see that

code:

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12<(9+8)

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and change it to methane?

Shouldn't it be 12>8?

[Fyron]

Umm... that I did not test.

[PvK]

It should change it to Poison Gas, until you only have one type.