Spaceship.

Teeks · March 16, 2000, 20:23

When I was playing today, I was the Mongols, I had 6 cities, perfectionist style. One was a 26, two were 24's, one was a 23, and two were 15's. I got ahead in tech quickly, and was building my spaceship before anyone else. But then, the Romans with a gargantuan amount of cities began building theirs...So, I blast it off in 1950 (39-4-4-1-1-1) and the estimated arrival was 1965. Then, in 1957, the Romans launch theirs and the estimated arrival was also 1965. I'm not sure of their spaceship's stats, but I do know the mass was quite a bit larger than mine, and was not fusion powered, while mine was. Anyway, when 1965 came, the Romans arrived, even though I was supposed to arrive on the same date. My question is 'What factors determine how quick a spaceship will get to AC, and if two civs are going to arrive on the same date, what factors will determine which arrives first.' This really irks me, because this is the second time this has happened recently. Waagh! Please help.

--Teeks

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--Teeks

War4ever · March 16, 2000, 21:01

the benefit of the white civ is thay go first in all turns

it goes in order of color.... with my beloved purple mongols last in the chain.....

the fastest spaceship possible is 15.9yrs i think and its 13 3 3 1 1 1 i believe not 100% SURE ON the structurals.... with fusian power....

therefore if you both land on the same date the person who goes first ie white civ lands first

silly concept but that is TBS for you

nexttime dont cut it so close

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Tom DeMille · March 16, 2000, 23:13

The fastest ship is more like 6 years. Just load it up with engines and fuel cells (something in the order of 35-8-8-1-1-1)

edit: Teeks, you built too many structural for the number of engines. The minimum (with %100 chance of success) ship is 15-3-3-1-1-1 with fusion power, which takes 15 years to arrive.

edit: War4ever, when was the last time you won by landing on AC?
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Scouse Gits · March 17, 2000, 06:01

Hi Teeks,

Always good to 'see' new faces.

There is a load of useful information on this and similar problems at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~winkler/civ2.html

Hope this helps

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War4ever · March 17, 2000, 15:03

Tom your correct of course..... i was thinking of OCC spaceships

and thats why i only had 13structurals and not 15

thanks for the correction..... i believe the rest was right though

Tom DeMille · March 17, 2000, 15:23

Thanks, SG1, good link- especially the formulas on trade. I'm finally starting to get a handle on the most effective use of caravans. Good to know that the ongoing trade from a trade route is not distance dependent. I'll keep sending those first 3 OCC caravans to the nearest possible city.