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Unrest and Ground Forces
« on: June 12, 2020, 01:28:58 PM »
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I have a friend who has a problem with his colony on Mars. There about 1.5b colonists on Mars and they are protected by about 500k ton worth of ground troops. Yet they are still complaining about lack of military protection and unrest is rising.

What is a reasonable number for the amount of ground troops my friend needs to keep his colony happy? 500k tons of troops seems like a lot for only 1.5b (but maybe not?).
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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2020, 01:42:14 PM »
Seems I've found the answer... ground troops apparently do not cause reduction in unrest except by use of force. Ship PPV is apparently the critical parameter for reducing unrest peacefully.

Time to ramp up shipyard production.

Here's the wiki article for anyone else who may be confused by this system:

http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Unrest
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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2020, 01:38:05 PM »
Seems I've found the answer... ground troops apparently do not cause reduction in unrest except by use of force.

I guess that depends on your RP perspective - I don't think it has to be by force, though it certainly can be. I view policing strength as planet-specific PPV. Having good police on earth is nice, but doesn't really make martians feel safe since the police cant really help if something happens there. A spaceship though can fly between planets, so both martians and earthlings can feel safe from it.
 

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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2020, 04:48:35 PM »
Your starting planet/population is apparently exempt from PPV/unrest calculations, so maintaining a garrison on Earth is of limited utility.
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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2020, 03:15:22 PM »
Your starting planet/population is apparently exempt from PPV/unrest calculations, so maintaining a garrison on Earth is of limited utility.

Earth was a bad example but I was being hypothetical. Swap Earth out for something like Titan and my analogy makes more sense.
 

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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2020, 03:46:33 PM »
Fair enough. Maybe I'm reading too much into the game message 'Unrest on Colony XXXXXX has been reduced by ground forces'... reads kind of ominous though.
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Re: Unrest and Ground Forces
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2020, 03:49:04 PM »
As it turns out, my 'friend' figured out why the population of Mars was so upset with the empire.

It seems some technician at the Martian Terraforming Station accidently left the 'add water vapor' box checked. This resulted in a global flood of biblical proportions and the martian hydrosphere is still recovering from this catastrophe a century later.

Oops  ::)
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