[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="1659" id="3619374"] There no reason to think that gravity will cause it to slow down slow enough to rip it apart. [/quote] The ripping apart is actually caused by an enormous expansion of space caused by Dark Energy with Gravity (in this scenario unsuccessful) trying to counter that. [quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="1659" id="3619374"] My question is if light is always faster than matter in any given area then how is
[quote who="DMF" reply="8" id="3619469"] I agree about the Evil weapons. IIRC the ONLY benefit to 2.20 Psionic Missile is that it's a little cheaper. I really liked the old weapons. Oh, a question. I see that the Korath Germ Warfare branch requires Impossible Tech . I gather that is only enabled with the Super Abilities? (Might be fun to play with germ-ridden Korath without SAs, which I generally don't like.) [/quote]<
[quote who="DMF" reply="130" id="3619466"] As for the alignment changes, I'm not against Drath as Neutral. But somehow making the Terran Good just isn't right. I didn't get an answer when I asked about why we need to keep the alignment count balanced. Anyone tried it with an unbalanced count? [/quote] I think the overall intent is to equalize the distribution of misaligned faction when starting a game against random enemies. You see, the w
[quote who="DMF" reply="1656" id="3619047"] The article clearly says that inflation is non-local, in that the size of galaxies does not change (at least in relation to large scale distances), while the distance between galaxies can increase so fast that they actually fly apart at speeds exceeding 'c'. Yeah, I'm still trying to get my head around that. Sounds more like the universe is, or will be, bounded by an event horizon. BTW, if that last is so, what is th
[quote who="DMF" reply="127" id="3619010"] No, I used c/s-Z to delete the nascent stalks. I left several on a few planets to see what happened and so far so good. But as if mid-2230 the 'bots have made no move to research Advanced. Next time I'll let them run and see what happens. [/quote] well if my improvements would show a tendency to magically disappear I wouldn't invest into upgradeing them either [e digicons]XD[/e] [quo
[quote who="DMF" reply="5" id="3615680"] Remember that the advanced forms of government yield very substantial economic bonuses. If you're playing the Community or 2.20 tree, then the higher Administration levels have the same economic effect as Republic/Democracy/Federation of the other racial trees. [/quote] sure, and for the player that is really a better deal. problem is the AI, and esp. AIP7 which runs Yor/Korath doesn't exactly aim out for cultura
[quote who="DMF" reply="1654" id="3618905"] since inflation is non-local? [/quote] the standard model suggest that the universe is isotrop & homogen, meaning that the expansion of space happens everywhere to the same degree. the speed of light is a natural constant, ie. it'll remain the same no matter what you do to the spatial background, so I don't see why the term light-year should be obsolete. If it were, noone at wikipedia would use it, you can safel
[quote who="DMF" reply="123" id="3618902"] This game half the nine are building guns and the other half missiles. Some are even building defenses (though they are still notoriously unwilling to actually research defense). [/quote] The game runs 4 different major AI personalities - some of which handle weapon & defense-research differently. The Terrans, for example, lock into a single weaponsbranch and will keep researching this no matter how their gam
[quote who="DMF" reply="1647" id="3617970"] Quoting Maiden666, reply 1522 (not just within a galaxy but in the entire 91 billion light-year diameter of the observable universe) Huh? Age is 14.3 Bly (roughly). Diameter is twice radius. "29 billion light-year diameter of the observ
[quote who="DMF" reply="4" id="3618004"] Different topic, sort of. I'm using the TechEditor to examine the trees. [/quote] It's ok as long as you don't save. (it'll ask you if you exist everytime...) because the TechEditor will create new lines of code which will affect techtrade and some idiotic placeholder remarks even when you do nothing but click on a tech to seep through it.... [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="3" id="3617924"] In yo
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1635" id="3615165"] It would have made no difference whether it was 2 factories or 20 [/quote] false. the amount of available base industry is incremental to the efficiency of percentage-enhancer. I wonder how you can make such nonsense-statements when you, at the same time, work with these calculations. to use your statement: 2*13=26*1.15 = 29 VERSUS 3*13 = 39 20*13= 260*1.15 = 299 VERSUS 21*13 = 271 and thi
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1633" id="3615119"] However, they often don't research the techs themselves. [/quote] I've seen them get Rebublic, but the others, not. [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1633" id="3615119"] That was actually a bad move on multiple levels. Not only does it change how the Yor play, it also made their economy weaker. Splitting the econ bonus between racial ability and planetary bonus makes you more money, than having all of the bon
Gaunathor, you just heavily nerfed Yor. I realize that, (esp. Adv. Stalks) were OP, but the total effect is -25% popgrowth, -1 tile PP, @4 Stalks -40% moral PP, (though +20% moral on Iconia.) Thing is that in the CU their economic branch has been nerfed considerably, so the only thing that's left to bring their economy up are Stalks. They have nothing else. In comparison to vanilla, Efficiency Studies holds +15% econ more - but at +2200 research cost (!) - starting with Ef
I didn't belief my eyes when the clock showed it is Sunday... these autogames really soaked me in. As of now, I'm finished and will give it some rest. Anyway, here are the results on YOR/STALKS, together with some minor stuff I noticed en route. YOR: - Homeworld bad moral: Because Stalks are also viewed as farms, he can't place any on Iconia. As he has no other moral structures available, his moral there will generally so bad that the planet doesn't develo
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="1625" id="3614797"] Is it possible to change the value system for the different techs of other civilizations where the ai don't value those techs of other civilizations, or want to buy them. [/quote] Yes, you can individually change the value of any tech belonging to any of the different trees - even 2 times (using AiValue & WillingnessToTrade). However, you can't influence the AIs on what techs they trade between themselves
[quote who="Maiden666" reply="1616" id="3614527"] TECHTRADE BUG#1: If AIs trade techs amongst themselves then these specific techs don't get obsoleted. In some way this can be perceived to "kill the upgrade chain"... TECHTRADE BUG#2: The AIs can trade technologies amongst themselves which they already possess.Both bugs can be conjoined:In one of my games the Yor reseached Collective Research, traded for Research Academy, then went on to research Invention Matr
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1620" id="3614660"] Thanks. The Hyperion Matrix and Gaia Vortex still need adjustments. I wasn't quite sure what to do with them, so I decided to focus on the farms first. Maybe 25% food for the HM, and 3 food for the GV? [/quote] Yeah I like that. Esp. since Thalans have no farming so a player might put the GV on a +300% foodtile for a second 20b ppl planet. *** I'm so far finished with the TORIANS: - The rebalanced
[quote who="MabusAltarn" reply="1617" id="3614579"] @Maiden. Wow, now that was a thorough analysis. Long story short. Regular farms (+food) work best because the AI actually recognizes them as farms and applies them better because of that. The morale meltdown on capital works doesn't happen and we can safely push max population on capitals to 16 bln. Correct? [/quote] Yes, that's what I saw in all tests. @ Gaunathor Thanks for th
Ok, this is gonna be a long but informative post, as I've dedicated the last 2 days entirely to observe AI autoplay esp. with the intention to find out what internal code drives the AI into farming usage. In most instances the basic setup was this: - swapping beteeen vanilla game & CU, with a few minor changes to some files in order to trigger, manipulate or test specific behaviour - 1vs1 game, always Arcean as allies (they do so bad during colonial rush), all vic
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1609" id="3614287"] The move back to food production is to fix the issues the percentage bonuses caused in the behaviour of the AI. That's a necessity, in my opinion, because the move to percentage bonuses not only failed to achieve what it was meant to do (prevent overpopulation on AI planets), but made matters worse. I only suggested nerfing the farms, because Mabus was worried about the consequences of going back to food production. It&#
and just while I'm thinking over it... so Iconians are able to use 3mt farms right from the start - which, as of now, is the maximum yield the AI can use under all trees. and Yor have these farms and they give good moral as a bonus, as well. while in the vanilla game, these farms were only mediocre - because there, 7mt food was the best. So the Iconians had a headstart while, in the long run, their farming was less efficient in endgame. (on that note
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1606" id="3614254"] I'm not so sure about that. If a veteran player like DMF still didn't know about it, then it's possible that others don't know about it either. [/quote] that's why I've been stressing the creation of a readme file. still, that could fail, not everyone is going to read that. to inform is still the best option since it'll also do good to a user that plays different mods. [quote who="Gaunathor
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1602" id="3614180"] Quoting Maiden666, reply 1600 Would someone please be so kind as to elaborate what this "break of .raceconfigxml" exactly is? If we make changes to the RaceConfig.xml, then the *.raceconfigxml of the players become outdated. Depending on the ch
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