a free space colonisation game.

[duke o' york]

So form your own guild!

[DRoseDARs]

Am I the only one in uni9 ?

[Skanky Burns]

Probably.
Start another one in uni8 to join the growing ranks of Polytubbies there!

[DRoseDARs]

Naw, I'll stick with my little hovel of a planet.

I'm gonna start a thread later this evening (after work) about a similar game I'm playing that is waaay better.

[Skanky Burns]

Everytime I post in this thread, it seems I have an attachment.

Anyway, version 2 of my spreadsheet. It calculates production for various building combinations, simply enter the building level and the production %. Also added is a time calculator - how many minutes until you have enough resources for the next building.

For calculating energy usage, I have added a -2 basic "fudge factor" that seems to work at my current building level. YMMV. Let me know if it is different for you or if you manage to track down the forumla for working out what the difference is between reported energy and used energy.

[Gamecube64]

Originally posted by Odin



Half-frozen planet, one only a Minnesotan would love.

That's why I love it

[Felch]

I've got my first solar satellite in space and my first rocket launchers on the ground.

Hooray for progress!!!

[Tuberski]

Tuberski@Magonogonovich

Universe 8 Polyance!

ACK!

[Blake]

I'm trying to figure out the point where Solar Sats are better than power plants.

Notes:
1) I'm using a weighting of metal=1 crystal=1.25 duet=1.5
2) For the Fusion Planet I subtract the power used to create the duet fuel. (it's ~1/3rd of the fusions total power). I do not account for the cost of the fraction of the Deuterium Synthesizer used to extract that duet. This means the fusion power is even more expensive than calculated here.
3) My planet is a cold one.

Solar Planet 12 -> 13
+144 Power.
14595 Resources
1 power per 101 resources.

Fusion Plant 3 -> 4
+62 Power.
9445 Resources
1 power per 152 resources.

Solar Sats
+22 Power
3250 Resources
1 power per 147 resources.


Looks like my intution about fusion plants is pretty good, they are only worth building as long as they are dirt cheap. I guess I'll save up for the next solar plant upgrade.

edit: I've got this thing where I write planet instead of plant or vice-verca. It started in the days of Stars! and I see I still do it...

[C0ckney]

applied for the alliance, am being scanned a bit at present

[germanos]

What's the path to solar sattelites?

[Blake]

You can check the technology screen, I think it's just the shipyard lvl1 though. They cost 2k crystal and 500 duet each.

[Hueij]

Anyone knows who "grater" and "lordlag" are? They applied.

GameCube and Skanky are now part of our great Alliance

[Hueij]

Looks like my intution about fusion plants is pretty good, they are only worth building as long as they are dirt cheap. I guess I'll save up for the next solar plant upgrade.

Fusion Plants are great for back-up in case your Solar Satellites are destroyed. I have a couple, but they only run at 40% or something.

[germanos]

grater = Blake

I have no idea who lordlag is...