Atmospheric conditioners

[dbt1949]

If you add one of these to a conquered planet does it convert to the ideal atmosphere for your race or the race living on the planet?
Thanks

[Suicide Junkie]

Atmosphere modification plants change the atmosphere to whatever the MAJORITY population breathes.

So as long as everyone on the planet breathes the same thing, it will be undomed after the atmosphere facility is done its work.

[dbt1949]

Ah,thanks!

[Ruatha]

If I have alien hydrogen breathers on a hydrogen planet, build up to max-1 facility, then builds a atm conv facility and after that is finished change pop to my native oxygen breathers. Will it then become an oxygen planet or will it choose the majority breathers when the facility was constructed and thereby not change the atmosphere?

[Suicide Junkie]

That's a very good question...
I suspect it will check the population on the turn it completes, but the only way to know is empirical testing

You could mod a 3-turn converter to try it with.

[minipol]

I think Fyron answered this a while back and i *think* the answer was that it will convert to the athmosphere of the majority of the population on the planet at the exact time of completing the conVersion. But i'm not sure

[ June 16, 2003, 12:07: Message edited by: minipol ]

[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 ]