minor wishes

[vylox]

That's sort of interesting..... But....

Rinze map with 90 worlds, hard.
Bothi (sorta newish colony) population 5/8 contains a Palace 2, Exchange 3, starport 4, 2x Mine 4 for a total of 9 RP.
Perkth Rychart. Population 9/10 RP listed at 11.
Cellet also Rychart pop 4/6 with a listed 9RP (no mine 4s put in yet... Hell no mines yet!! But its a newish colony)
Munaitti Settlement Javat, pop 7/9 RP listed is 11 (it has 6 Mine 4 with only 7 population.....zzzz. This colony came out nice with 19q and 27m)
Beaumonde Javat,population 1/3 RP listed as 5. From Starport 3, exchange 2. That's all. (No mines here yet either)

Those are some on my phone....


While do not doubt your methodology, something might be missing somewhere....
It does stat that RP requires population to activate but I can not seem to find many of my colonies that have populations lower than their RP. Those 5 are the only ones between 2 different games. On my phone's game I have listed 119 total RP with an overall population of 106. If I remove the Rychart RP bonus from that listing I would have 101 RP. With 18 colonies (6x each) On the game I'm playing on my thrive I have a listed 133 pop with 188 RP. If I remove the Rychart static bonus I would have 170 RP listed.... With 23 total colonies, only 6 are Rychart.

I might have to go through and test that out.... I do however notice a difference per turn in my RP values based on whether or not I have something in the building queue... Something in the queue and the RP sometimes drops for that colony, nothing in queue RP maxes out regardless of the total population. (This is from an older play, i stopped after whiping out 2 Xeno. Hell's Razor. Population 3/5 idle. 14q, 11m has Starport 4, exchange 3, Palace 2 and Military Academy (Cadar) with 2xMine 4. According to your findings this planet should only produce 4 of the 9 possible, however the screen shows it at 9RP) So either the game is showing one number but using a different one, or RP requires idle population.

[Rico's Roughnecks]

I still can't get more than population+1 rp on any game except idle thulun population+3.

The total empire RP displayed includes hidden bonuses, so you can't really compare your entire population to your total RP. For example, I manually added up rp of my 19 colonies including 10 idle thulun and got 193, but the rp display said 201 and 201 is what was added to my research project when I ended the turn. 8 extra... actually disappointing since I had a spy battle going on I'd have expected more of a bonus for so big an empire. Next turn, I built something at all ten thulun colonies, losing 2 rp for each colony and the rp total doesn't adjust itself during the same turn, but even tho the rp total still said 201, 181 were actually applied to my project and the total rp changed to 181 for the next turn. Still 8 more than the 173 that I got by adding up individual colony rp.

So like I said, I can't get more than population+1, but total rp can be more than total population plus 1per colony

[dbwyld]

Oct 12, 2014 19:36:36 GMT -5 Rico's Roughnecks said:

+1 I know it's fog of war, but maybe keep showing the square outlines for where you've explored even after it goes black. Especially good for big maps.

Or scout ships dropping Sensor buoys... maybe that's not a "minor request"

Sensor buoys... I like that. If a sensor buoy could be dropped to perma-mark an area of the map, it could act as an enemy ship to the xeno AI, and they would attack it if it were too close to their space. This would keep their actions a secret still.

The main thing that was getting to me about all the remaining dark space, was just that... the remaining dark space. Maybe I'm nit-picking, but it looks kinda ugly having these blobs of darkness resting between colonized worlds, especially if a trade route is established.

It's not really a big deal. I was just curious if maybe something could be done to open some of it up.

[Cory Trese]

Build ships, move them into defensive positions, or use Scan to drive back the darkness.

[Cory Trese]

Oct 18, 2014 1:56:10 GMT -5 Rico's Roughnecks said:

I still can't get more than population+1 rp on any game except idle thulun population+3.

The total empire RP displayed includes hidden bonuses, so you can't really compare your entire population to your total RP. For example, I manually added up rp of my 19 colonies including 10 idle thulun and got 193, but the rp display said 201 and 201 is what was added to my research project when I ended the turn. 8 extra... actually disappointing since I had a spy battle going on I'd have expected more of a bonus for so big an empire. Next turn, I built something at all ten thulun colonies, losing 2 rp for each colony and the rp total doesn't adjust itself during the same turn, but even tho the rp total still said 201, 181 were actually applied to my project and the total rp changed to 181 for the next turn. Still 8 more than the 173 that I got by adding up individual colony rp.

So like I said, I can't get more than population+1, but total rp can be more than total population plus 1per colony

I do not follow. The stats the game gives you are intended to provide best planning information, not necessarily match your personally calculated sub-totals.

Are you reporting a bug? I don't see a bug, just a lot of RP machinations operating correctly?

[Rico's Roughnecks]

Oct 21, 2014 13:23:05 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

I do not follow. The stats the game gives you are intended to provide best planning information, not necessarily match your personally calculated sub-totals.

Are you reporting a bug? I don't see a bug, just a lot of RP machinations operating correctly?

No bug, me and vylox were debating if you can get more RP than the population of a colony +1 so I was being specific about how my total empire rp appeared to be much higher than total population, but isn't really