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SA Questions / Re: Hive economy
« Last post by Steve Walmsley on February 12, 2022, 04:47:47 AM »
16.04.05.4 "...Each medium sized world produces 50% more income than normal (after all other factors). Each large produces 75% greater income and very large worlds produce twice as much income. However, their crews are always average. Research and Development is 3x as expensive and twice as slow. Populations increase at 2x rate (Use the per turn rates for them). PTUs take only 25% normal transport requirements. Planets can automatically covert 10% of their population to PCFs (twice normal rate) in the case of an invasion per Interception turn..."

Above is from third edition.
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Starfire Rules / Re: Machine race rules
« Last post by Erik L on February 11, 2022, 08:54:09 PM »
They were in one of the expansions, but I cannot recall which.
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Starfire Rules / Machine race rules
« Last post by haggis on February 11, 2022, 08:22:32 PM »
another question from the old newb who is wading through the upgrade to 3rd. . .

Machine races and J-rill economics. . .  I can see entries for them in SA, but I can't see rules for them in the publications.

Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction with a publication/page number please?

(and for that matter, how you would set a race to use those rules in SA?)

cheers

Dave (the ex-2nd ed guy. . . )
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SA Questions / Hive economy
« Last post by haggis on February 11, 2022, 08:17:18 PM »
Hello again guys. . .

caveat: I'm working from memory because I can't find it in the rulebooks (and a publication/page ref# would be great)

way back when I was using SA to fudge a 2nd ed campaign, I started a bug type NPC and I'm certain the economics were different. . .  the growth rate was bigger but the tech advancement was halved (or something like that).

Not only can't I find any reference to that in the rules, but apart from setting a government to Hive Mind, I can't see a setting to change either economics or tech advancement.

Can anyone point a chap in the right direction?

cheers

Dave (the ex-2nd ed guy. . . )
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by haggis on February 08, 2022, 10:25:03 PM »
Quote from: xenoscepter link=topic=12918. msg158625#msg158625 date=1644347401
Quote from: Kurt link=topic=12918. msg158618#msg158618 date=1644330178
Quote from: haggis link=topic=12918. msg158616#msg158616 date=1644321452
many thanks.  .   that may have got me further (I'm not sure). 

after installing the runtimes and doing a re-install of 6.  00, I can get that to work with no errors.  .  .   I even get the graphic splash screen at the start. 

but v7.  00 or 7.  02 exes just give me the same mass errors.

I have a vague memory of having to install a DLL file at some point, but I can't get any closer than that.   I'll see if I can dig anything up.   I don't think I did anything special when I installed v7 on my current computer. 

 --- By any chance was it a DLL file that you could get from some sort of simple timer / clock program, thing?

and that, for some reason was the issue. . .  even though I repeatedly overwrote the database, it was picking the original v6 database up (as I could tell from the test universes I created). . .  had to place the v7 mdb in a completely different location and point to it manually.

Ah well. . .

Anyway.  now to go and conquer the universe. . .

cheers

Dave (formerly the 2nd ed guy. . )
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by xenoscepter on February 08, 2022, 04:33:41 PM »
Quote from: Black on February 08, 2022, 01:55:31 PM
I believe it might be Simple Shutdown Timer, at least that was the utility I used to get old Aurora running.

 --- Yes! That was it!
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by Black on February 08, 2022, 01:55:31 PM »
I believe it might be Simple Shutdown Timer, at least that was the utility I used to get old Aurora running.
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by xenoscepter on February 08, 2022, 01:10:01 PM »
Quote from: Kurt on February 08, 2022, 08:22:58 AM
Quote from: haggis on February 08, 2022, 05:57:32 AM
many thanks. .  that may have got me further (I'm not sure).

after installing the runtimes and doing a re-install of 6. 00, I can get that to work with no errors. . .  I even get the graphic splash screen at the start.

but v7. 00 or 7. 02 exes just give me the same mass errors.

I have a vague memory of having to install a DLL file at some point, but I can't get any closer than that.  I'll see if I can dig anything up.  I don't think I did anything special when I installed v7 on my current computer.

 --- By any chance was it a DLL file that you could get from some sort of simple timer / clock program, thing?
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by Steve Walmsley on February 08, 2022, 11:31:27 AM »
Quote from: haggis on February 08, 2022, 05:57:32 AM
many thanks. .  that may have got me further (I'm not sure).

after installing the runtimes and doing a re-install of 6. 00, I can get that to work with no errors. . .  I even get the graphic splash screen at the start.

but v7. 00 or 7. 02 exes just give me the same mass errors.

Make sure when you upgrade to 7.0, you are using the v7.0 database.
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SA Installation / Re: Installation pre-requisites
« Last post by Kurt on February 08, 2022, 08:22:58 AM »
Quote from: haggis on February 08, 2022, 05:57:32 AM
many thanks. .  that may have got me further (I'm not sure).

after installing the runtimes and doing a re-install of 6. 00, I can get that to work with no errors. . .  I even get the graphic splash screen at the start.

but v7. 00 or 7. 02 exes just give me the same mass errors.

I have a vague memory of having to install a DLL file at some point, but I can't get any closer than that.  I'll see if I can dig anything up.  I don't think I did anything special when I installed v7 on my current computer. 
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