Changling Blitz

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Hey Wolf,
I'm teaching my brother how to play Empire. I'm NOT playing two countries.
I just wanted to make sure you knew why GNUb keep signing onto 2 countries
one after the other. He's a lvl 2 right now, but he seems to have potential
once he learns how to play. Who knows, I might even have potential once I
learn to build tech instead of being a commodity whore.

-GNUb (lvl 4 fodder)

 

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"GNUb" <KingZemus@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94E95FC5F9DB9KingZemusJunocom@195.131.52.135...
>
> many thanks... btw, how do you create uw's w/o taking land from you
> opponents. I've noticed my sectors are producing them, yet I can't find
> in the info pages the formula/sectors to make them.

You take land from your opponents 🙂
They're just like civs, they reproduce, work and pay taxes, albeit at a
lesser rate (except for work)

> Also, in the formula
> to calculate production, there is a "unit" variable I can't find values
> for. 🙁 (i.e. I think it's 3 for mines, 1 for lcms, etc... ) If anyone
> knows where I can find these w/o digging through all the source code I'd
> be a very content little fodder.

First you need to understand "Avail"
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=brpv93%24lv2%241%40news.tue.nl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Davail%2Bempire%2Bencyclopedia%26meta%3D

Now that you have that, you calculate production this should give you a good
start...

info Quick-Ref
info Products
info produce

Basically you have your production effeciency (p.e.)which is calculated
differently for various items based on tech, or natural resources, etc.
(this is in Quick-Ref) You have the work force (which counts births in its
calculation) and you have the avail required for each unit. Avail required
is equal to the number of widgets to transform it into the "new widget" for
example guns take 10 hcm, 5 lcm, and 1 oil. 10+5+1=16 avail to make one gun.
At 599 avail in a 60 etu game, you can make 37 guns, however your p.e. is
applied to this number. Lets say its 80% .8*37=29.6 So you have a 40%
chance of making 29 guns and a 60% chance of making 30 guns (either way you
pay for 37)

> (at least until I come up w/another
> question)

Keep 'em coming -- bored at work

> Again, many thanks to all of you here in rec.games.empire for
> the help you've given me so far.
>

No problem

> -GNUB (lvl 4 fodder... now, just to kill something that fights back)

That's appearently the trickey part 🙂
Mark