Bug in 1.41

Taqwus · #1 June 25th, 2001, 06:27 PM

One oddity -- in my present 1.41/TDM 255-system game, I've seen over 90 systems without a single "ancient ruins" planet. Anybody know if the probabilities got tweaked, or whether I might have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere?

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Krakenup · #2 June 25th, 2001, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
One oddity -- in my present 1.41/TDM 255-system game, I've seen over 90 systems without a single "ancient ruins" planet. Anybody know if the probabilities got tweaked, or whether I might have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere?

Interesting. I've been getting more under 1.41/TDM, but they have been mostly worthless. (Whoopee, Organic Farm II, that will solve all my problems!) There is a switch during set-up that disallows all ruins.

Nitram Draw · #3 June 25th, 2001, 06:57 PM

There are 7 possible ruins chances listed in the StellarAbilities file. Each has a 5% chance of occurring on a "standard planet", not exactly sure what that means. Seems odd you would not have found at least one.

Taqwus · #4 June 25th, 2001, 07:53 PM

Hrm. I probably hit the toggle by mistake, then. *shrug*

No new issues noticed by me in this patch, so far, and the fighter-stack +defense bug is fixed (BIG yay for non-Deeply Religious races!).

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PurpleRhino · #5 June 25th, 2001, 08:16 PM

Actually... its only 1/2% chance to find a ruins planet (value is in tenths). And, as I recall, thats the same its always been.

Nitram Draw · #6 June 25th, 2001, 08:31 PM

You are correct Purple, it is 1/10ths.

Krakenup · #7 June 25th, 2001, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by PurpleRhino:
Actually... its only 1/2% chance to find a ruins planet (value is in tenths). And, as I recall, thats the same its always been.

So if there are 7 types (per Marty), that would be roughly an overall 3.5% chance for a ruins planet or about 1 in 28. If we assume 7 planets in a planetary system (wag), that would mean that 1 in 4 planetary systems would contain a ruins planet. That is totally consistent with my experience. Out of 16 explored planetary systems in my current game, I found 4 ruins planets.