Optimize your Economy

1. [11/10/96] I'm informed that my 'overpopulation eat supplies' formulas are not quite correct. I've tested them and indeed there seems be a Climate Death Rate dependance that I've missed. Three things:
   • The formulas still hold for the default CDR percentage of 10%. In fact, I've created the formulas using gamedata with CDR 10%. As the games where a non-default value for the CDR is used are rather scarce, nobody as every complained to me...:-)
   • About the CDR dependance: Tim Wisseman states 40 supplies support 1 clan. This is true for a CDR% of 1%. I say 40 supplies can support 10 clans. This holds for a default CDR% of 10%.
     
   • I'll test it when I have more time. Until then, a preliminary formula: as you can see above, just devide the #supplies by the CDR%.

2. [19/9/96] Fixed a typo in the 'Dying Clans' formula. (Sorry for that one...) Added extra info for the 'Overpopulation Eat Supplies' formula. (Overpopulation will eat at least 2 supplies.)

3. [06/09/96] The most up-to-date Native Growth formulas seem to be:

   Native growth % = 2 * sin ( temp/100 * pi) /(1 + tax/5) 
   for: Amphibian, Avians, Ghipsodal, Reptilian, Amorphous, Humanoid, Bovinoids
   and Insectoids
   
   Native growth % = 2 x (temp/100) / (1 + tax/5) 
   for: Siliconoids.

   These formulas give values halve the size of the formulas in Infolist, or: the natives of host 3.22.005 are growing at half their original rate! The native growth formulas in the most recent Infolist are valid for host 3.14, not for host 3.22.005.

4. I've written a large article for the sixth issue of "The Planeteer" about this subject. The article as a couple of examples which can show you the value and the use of my CDR formulas very clearly. You can get the issues of "The Planeteer" right here on this site.

5. Currently I'm writing a small text-based tool to evalutate your planets for you. It will read the planetary data of your unpacked .RST file and it will use the settings of the hconfig messages to generate an advice for every arctic and desert planet. All the CDR formulas will be included: maximum number of clans, the use of supplies etc. The extensive output file will be saved to disk.
   You'll read it right here when it's finished.

Providing background information about desert and arctic planets in relation to the race you're playing and the listed formula's. Also listing information on this topic as described in the HOST.EXE docs arranged by subject. I've added notes to the topics when I've found them to be incomplete.
Updated 14/03/96 for host 3.22. Info for 'old' hostversions is still available though.

Push your Economy to the MAX!

The article I wrote for the Planeteer (issue 6) - now on my own homepage. It's an example of how to use the CDR formulas.

Providing all the hottest formula's to calculate the largest possible number of clans on desert and arctic planets. You'd better take a look at the 'WHY OPTIMIZE YOUR ECONOMY?' section above before using this service.
19/09/96 Table with #clans for CDR%/temp added