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SAL 9000 Dev Team Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:37 pm	Now on test: Changes to colony trading and targeting Greetings, SS community; I am HAL's twin sister . The following updates are now available for testing on the test server: The code for trade between user bases and colonies has been improved, with the following visible changes: 1. Colonies will now buy arbitrary numbers of commods; they are no longer limited to multiples of 100. 2. Colonies will only buy/sell if the base has a lower/higher price than the colony, not if the prices are equal. 3. The number of peasants bought by a colony now depends on the base's sell price. The maximum number of peasants a colony can buy is larger than before, but potential profits from peasant pumping will be much lower. Changes to the code that determines when to fire weapons. This should improve the performance of slaves and drones as well as for AI.
Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:26 am

Jonbardon Joined: Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:13 am	A female admin? cool the changes look good too
Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:35 am

Xionakis Joined: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:10 pm	could really use a termite nerf in there somwhere......and welcome to SS
Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:46 am

wdn68 Team: Main: mrwoo Level: 1626 Class: Engineer Joined: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:39 am Location: south of old blighty (england)	dunno who is gonna spend the time testing a col but seems ok if cols will buy more commods as i never understand why a 7 bill pop only buys like 20k of mets etc
Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:03 am

yugioh124 Team: Main: yugioh Level: 1854 Class: Fleet Commander Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:17 am Location: Classified	I don't use colonies, and the idea of AI improved performance scares me a little, but welcome to SS anyway.
Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:46 am

Ceno Team: Main: Yurble Level: 1967 Class: Engineer Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:06 am Location: Somewere deep in your mind.	Good changes.. Good changes.. to the dev team.. and the game.. yeah the game _________________ ~Lots of love and cookies and blue fur ~Yurbs
Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:31 am

SAL 9000 Dev Team Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:37 pm	To facilitate testing of colonies, test is currently running with 1 colony year every minute.
Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:36 am

erman Member Team: Main: ERMAN Level: 3306 Class: Speed Demon Joined: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:27 am Location: Chicago, USA	SAL 9000 wrote: To facilitate testing of colonies, test is currently running with 1 colony year every minute. thats going to be very hard to keep the needed rats on the base then. _________________ "I reject your reality, and substitute my own." "If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA Helicase so I could unzip your genes."
Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:40 pm

SuperHero Member Joined: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:06 am	Ive made a colony on test. Its buying and selling peasants fine, at "odd" numbers. _________________ The original Junkie
Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:34 pm

uses ak47 for the job Team: Main: gij Level: 1828 Class: Shield Monkey Joined: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:06 pm	can i be your twin brother to? _________________ i'm on a boat!
Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:19 pm

trevor54 Team: Main: Trevor50 Level: 4503 Class: Shield Monkey Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:01 pm Location: Alabama	why nerf Peasent Pumping more, u already rapped it Trev _________________ Ricoh wrote: might sound hard 4 u...but learn reading? Stay strong, live long, and walk humbly. Strawberry Blueberry Pancakes
Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:53 pm

JeffL Site Admin / Dev Team Team: Main: Jeff_L Level: 1028 Class: Sniper Joined: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:21 am Location: Santa Clara, CA	In theory, this will allow people to get their colonies to grow faster than before, just at less of a profit. In my opinion, pumping peasants should be more of a loss-leader to prepare for exploiting a bigger colony later. _________________ For support, please create a support ticket here and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:46 am

Thummmper Joined: Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:19 am	JeffL wrote: In theory, this will allow people to get their colonies to grow faster than before, just at less of a profit. In my opinion, pumping peasants should be more of a loss-leader to prepare for exploiting a bigger colony later. This only works if the universe is more than FOUR months long. There just aren't enough Peasants in the AI stations to pump all of the planets that need them when the uni starts.
Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:26 am

Tarik Team: Main: Abbara Level: 1394 Class: Seer Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:13 am	I can see their strategy on this one to be fair. Making so much money, nice as it is, shouldn't be so easy as pumping a colony with millions of peasents at a huge profit. By allowing you to sell more for less to grow the colony to 7bil+ quicker, they reduce the initial investement in this huge colony. If you want to invest less then you can sell fewer for higher, but take longer to grow the colony to a huge size. As soon as you have a huge colony you can gather the resources and now sell more commods to the colony at a higher overall value than you could have sold peasents to it in the previous setup. So in fact, you can now make more cash from colonies (I think, theoretically) however it will just be a harder and more laborious task. I think this also adds a new variable to the search for an ideal galaxy... the ability to extract and combine commods on huge quantities to sell to your pumped colonies. I'm not sure, this is just my take on it.
Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:28 am

saran Team: Main: goldstar-stations Level: 2020 Class: Engineer Joined: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:54 pm	it sounds like a good idea to me. any chance that this might effect the ammounts colonys buy of certain items? i find that a 1bil pop colony buys as much as a 12bil pop.. population should define how much of what is bought and change the needs of the colony. _________________
Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:04 am

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