Never do your turn when up for 26 hours

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 June 9th, 2005, 03:31 PM

Tired makes brain is mistakes are when made the.

TurinTurambar · #2 June 9th, 2005, 03:46 PM

Is there a "how-to" on resource converters somewhere? I've never really gotten into using them, though I always get to them in Research.

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Fyron · #3 June 9th, 2005, 10:28 PM

TurinTurambar said:
Is there a "how-to" on resource converters somewhere? I've never really gotten into using them, though I always get to them in Research.

What are you looking for, exactly? They convert excess resources from one type to another at a 50%, 60%, or 70% rate of exchange. That is all. They are especially handy for a monolith economy in full swing, since you will be producing a huge amount of useless organics and radioactives. A Monolith III effectively generates 1800 minerals per turn if you have only Resource Converter I (50% loss) and convert all of the organics and radioactives to minerals. Best case scenario nets 2,160, over double that of a regular Mineral Miner III.

douglas said:
As for the storm creator, I tried that in a test game a while back with the latest patch, and it didn't work. Maybe it's because storm creators are destroyed on use now and weren't earlier (I don't know whether that was changed in a patch or not), but it's not a problem in stock any more.

The destroyed on use ability was added to storm creation devices in the 1.91 patch.

TurinTurambar · #4 June 11th, 2005, 03:32 AM

Thanks Fyron.

And IIRC it's a command you give to the facility whilst playing a turn and it dumps all that planets resources (minus the loss) into your minerals cache (or other) for the next turn? And you would manually issue this order at each planet so equipped once per turn?

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Fyron · #5 June 11th, 2005, 12:23 PM

Not exactly. Resource Converters convert resources in storage from one type to another, in the amounts and types that you specify. They bear no relation to the planet on which they are located. You have to issue the order from that planet, but it uses the global stores of resources. You only get automated conversion if you use repeat orders, which can be quite dangerous with converters. There is a limit of something around 1 million resources converted per turn, but that only comes into play for truly massive empires.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 June 11th, 2005, 02:28 PM

Isn't that limit per resource converter?

Fyron · #7 June 11th, 2005, 02:35 PM