Ringworlds and Sphereworlds

primitive · #1 December 18th, 2003, 12:19 AM

I can top that

I had 36 Ringworlds in the "Return to (micromanagement

) Hell" game, with another 10 or so on the way when the game became to big for PBW and crashed. Of course the resources they produced was very welcome to support my 1500+ Base SYs and 2500+ ships of the line.

Had the Quadruple Molly in one system and was just starting an attempt to build some in a 5 star system with random movement. Always been wondering what would have happened if I had managed to get one built there

Puke · #2 December 18th, 2003, 01:10 AM

technically possible. you will have to wait, on average, 169 turns for chance to drop you on the right sector after all your starbases are built. actually less, if you had multiple stars in there.

Loser · #3 December 18th, 2003, 01:48 AM

Well, they will all move together... And the Stars are toward the center, which, in time, is around where your random-movement-clump will hang out.

I would wonder about the Order, though. Would the SM order go through before the clump moved? Could you make the SM order if the clump were not on a star?

Suicide Junkie · #4 December 18th, 2003, 05:26 AM

While there are 169 potential places for the random movement to pull you towards, the ones near the center are MUCH more likely.

If you are not in the middle, then there is a greater chance to be pulled in the general direction of the center than away, since there are more squares on that side for the pull direction to choose from. (You are pulled towards a random square, not really random directions)
The pull square dosen't even have to be the center, since if you are 2 squares left of center (and up or down at most 2) and the pull (strength 2) is in any of the squares right of the center, you win also.

Puke · #5 December 18th, 2003, 08:54 AM

oh yeah. with a strength 2, you will be near the center. i was thinking of something higher, like strength 12, which would just plop you in a different random square each turn. i was mainly thinking that way, because i have a pbw game set up that way...

Fyron · #6 December 18th, 2003, 11:02 AM

Wouldn't that always stick you in an edge sector?

Loser · #7 December 19th, 2003, 02:48 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Wouldn't that always stick you in an edge sector?

No, because random movement is not directional. It works the same way a Black Hole does, but it picks a different attractive sector each turn. So you pop around the system every turn.

Check out Puke's Furball 5. Every turn, every non-planet object in the one-system map is moved to the same sector. It's like a roving destructive party.