Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: Gabethebaldandbold on February 19, 2020, 04:11:10 PM
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how do they work? what dictates what a planet or colony will export or import? do we have any controll over that? I would imagine a place with financial centres and construction factories to produce a similar tipe of products to one another, and to be different from a terraforming colony...
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Kindof a good question, to be honest. I mostly ignore them because for the most part they don't really seem to do anything.
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IIRC, a colony's production rates per amount of population for the various goods are rolled for on generation, while consumption rates per amount of population are static. A large enough empire with enough settled worlds would produce approximately 1 unit of a civilian good per unit of that good consumed, some variance to be expected due to the random nature of the roll and the different populations of a given colony.
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how do they work?
Populated Colonies produce some random amount (per pop) of some things, and demand some random amount (per pop) of some things -- possibly the same things.
Civilian freighters move stuff from colonies where it's exccess to demand over to other colonies where there's a shortfall.
what dictates what a planet or colony will export or import?
Random roll, save that 'Alien Artifacts' are only available from bodies that have (or used to have, depending on certain bugs) Ruins.
do we have any controll over that?
No. . . except for the the SM-only 'Random Ruin' button.
I would imagine a place with financial centres and construction factories to produce a similar tipe of products to one another, and to be different from a terraforming colony...
Yup. It's sort of in the air as a long-term suggestion to modify the current system once other things are "working properly."