Frequently Asked Questions for Newbies

[Asmala]

12.1.3 A homeworld will never riot.

[Slick]

for the complete Version:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well, I emailed MM about this, and here is the response:

quote:

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A homeworld will never riot. Their anger will go up but it maxes out at 80% (where 100% is required to riot). We had to impose this during beta testing because a newly started empire would have its one homeworld riot and that player's game would effectively be over.

A planet designated as your HW cannot ever riot. But, if the HW is glassed, then recolonized, it can then be capable of rioting, as it is no longer a HW.

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[Asmala]

12.0.4 Every new colony, including the homeworld, has 25% angry people at the beginning so the mood is Happy.

12.0.5 At every turn positive and negative events (happiness.txt, see also 1.2.4) are added up, the result is rounded down (the decimal part is wiped off) and then it is added to the percentage of angry people.

[Merry Jolkar]

If I give orders to close a warp point this turn and my opponent gives orders to pass through that warp point from the other side, will his ships be able to get through and destroy me before I close the warp point? The newbie faq below says nothing about this, i.e.,:

9.5.6 Opening & Closing Warp Points

is blank.

Thank yous in advance!
Merry

[Slick]

Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
If I give orders to close a warp point this turn and my opponent gives orders to pass through that warp point from the other side, will his ships be able to get through and destroy me before I close the warp point? The newbie faq below says nothing about this, i.e.,:

9.5.6 Opening & Closing Warp Points

is blank.

Thank yous in advance!
Merry

I haven't tested this, but I would assume that it depends on turn based games or simultaneous games. I bet that in turn based games, whoever gets the order executed first wins, and in simultaneous games, I think that the player with the lower player number might win, although I believe that Stellar Manipulation is done before movement, so if that's true, the closer might always win regardless of player number.

Tell you what, this looks like a nice little research project that you could do and post the results here for incorporation to the next revision. You could contribute to the knowledge base of the community. You would get full credit and everything!

Slick.

[ February 27, 2003, 15:42: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Slick]

Deleted double post.

[ February 27, 2003, 15:41: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Ruatha]

I think it's time for a inclusion round and update to the faq.

Will you do it Slick or should I?

(I can do it next week, have plenty of time, working night then. But you do it better (actually the truth!))