game #2 of Neptune's Pride 2

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Can you create a single player game for pei to try out against AI's? Standard settings should be fine. He can figure out our tweaked settings later.
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Is having no racial difference a game setting or is it not implemented yet?
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There is no racial difference and no option to add racial difference.

Sure, I can make a Pei+me game. If I start it, I have to be in the game for it to start.

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start the game please!
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http://triton.ironhelmet.com/game/6049854927142912 - War Of Xenomorphic Aggression
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I meant Pei's test game...
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Pei testbed started.

Everybody join the War Of Xenomorphic Aggression! OP link updated.

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Pro tip for Erik & Pei: Don't spend your money until you've colonized some other stars. I mean, you can try something else, but it'll suck.

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Huh.

You know what, I'm almost positive I didn't change the Scanning to be 3.

I think the game is forcing Scanning 3 with Dark Galaxy.

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Why do economy and industry appear to have the same cost? I thought standard industry versus expensive economy would make economy more expensive to build than industry... What does expensive industry do?
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No, standard economy is cheaper than standard industry. Expensive economy is the same price as standard industry. That's the same as Empire of New Dirt.

I haven't tried expensive industry.

As you may have noted, I just made Scanning and Hyperspace cheap and said fuck it. The game forced Scanning 3. (I'm like 99.99% sure)

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The fixed cost is something like 250 for Economy, 500 for Industry, 2000 for Science, and 10000 for a Warp Gate. So, each level of Terraforming (which adds 5 resources) reduces your costs by a factor of Y / (Y + 5). By way of example, for a star with 20 natural resources, going from 4 to 5 is about an 11% reduction, going from 10 to 11 is a 7% reduction. (In absolute terms, this can be significant, since by the time you have 10 Terraforming, your infrastructure will probably be developed enough that your costs will be very high.
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Expensive economy doubles the price, so expensive industry probably doubles the price.

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I conceded in Pei's testbed, so hopefully he can just autogen turns all day long.

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ah, so industry is supposed to be twice as expensive as economy, but you've doubled economy. Makes sense. Thanks!
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If anyone cares, the 5P circular start is an inverted regular pentagram (point is down). Indigo is the left-most vertex, and I believe it proceeds clock-wise with no randomness. There's 16 ly between your home planet and your nearest 2 neighbors, which is 48 ticks of travel (6 turns) as the hyperspace crow flies. We should bump into each other around turn 4-5 or so.

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All people whose names begin P-E-I need to get in the War so it can start and we can do production, like, right now. I'm going out tonight and won't be able to submit for a while.

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Image
If I did this right, we've got points L, F, G, H, K.
L: Indigo - Colonel Dwindlehop
F: Cyan - dbk
G: Green - Quantus
H: Yellow - thespineer
K: Orange - Inquist

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Jonathan wrote:All people whose names begin P-E-I need to get in the War so it can start and we can do production, like, right now. I'm going out tonight and won't be able to submit for a while.
Play your turn from your phone. It's pretty much going to be pressing submit for the first turn.
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txt'ed peijen to join and pei will join shortly.
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