When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

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1870 days, 9 hours, 21 minutes ago

When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic games? I thought classic meant no tinkering with the rules, that's for campaign games. It's frustrating to find out the rules are changed after you commit to a game. We need a game setup page where we can see all the rules for the game.

1870 days, 9 hours, 7 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

These are the oldest references I could google

http://planets.nu/discussion/structur-decay-or-how-to-get-rid-of-structures

http://planets.nu/discussion/decay-rate-way-too-high

According to default config:

http://planets.nu/documentation/default-config

Planetary structure decay rate: 1
The number of mines, factories and defenseposts is limited by the number of clans on a planet. When there are insufficient clans to support the number of structures, they will disappear each turn until the maximum amount that can be maintained by the colonists is reached.

I did find this old question:

http://planets.nu/discussion/levels-difference-structure-decay-is-3-instead-of-1-like

Which of your two games is it?

I also found this: http://planets.nu/documentation/structure-decay

weird.

1870 days, 5 hours, 2 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

Thanks for the research Figak. My older game which started in October 2013 has structure decay of 1. The new one that started in May has structure decay of 3. Default config (http://planets.nu/documentation/default-config) still says structure decay is 1. I'm guessing it was changed when solo level games were introduced, perhaps affecting classic games unintentionally since there was no discussion or announcement of the change.

1870 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

Hmmmm, Nu has 1% large meteor hits, it should be 2%.

Lizards cland defense rate should be 10, not the 15 on Nu.

Nu has 4 Ion storms, should be 5.

Clearly decay of 3 should be changed to 1... but I vote that Classic should also have those three differences corrected.

I just learned "Ships with a hull of techlevel seven or higher are not slowed down by minehits." Good to know.

1869 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

And get me back my tow-break-chunnel!

1869 days, 22 hours, 11 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

Sorry, documentation was out of date. Structure Decay rate is set to 3.

1848 days, 19 hours, 20 minutes ago

purebloodprince

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

In all games??

1848 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

yes, does it affect games started before also?

1848 days, 16 hours, 52 minutes ago

RE: When did the structure decay rate become 3 for classic...

Anyone know why it was changed and can actually find the discussion? I was glad when the rate changed from 10, which I'm not sure where that # came from to 1, which is the standard in thost. But then this change to 3 randomly popped up.

BTW the change in ion storms from 5 -> 4 was because Joshua's original algorithm for ion storms produced large powerful ion storms.