About Development


Colonization and Development is how you make a nuetral planet or an
opponent planets yours.  It Is a two step process that sometimes
takes more than one turn to complete. Once a planet is yours you may use
the resources  to build Fleets, System Defense, and Technological Advancement.
To develop a planet your fleet should have some development strength, and
the System Defense should have been removed by Combat already.  Many nuetral
planets come defenseless so Combat may not be nesessary.  Your Developers must
overcome the Compatability Difference to Colonize the system.  Once you
Colonize, the program will automatically go on to development.  To develop the 
planet your developers must overcome the Development Points.  In general the 
greater a Fleets Development Strength, the quicker these operations can be
accomplished.  One can View a planets Compatability Difference (CD)
and Development Points (DP) under list system in the Print submenu. 


  Resources from colonized and developed planets in a quadrant are pooled
together. In addition resourses from quadrants linked to eachother by a
Starfall can be pooled in the direction of the Starfall link. In this way you
can build powerful resource chains, with all your resources pooled at one
quadrant.


  Following is a table of ship costs and strengths:




Type of ship  cost in resources   Military Strength Development Strength


Explorer  Inf.     18                    5                  
Military  Inf.     16                   10                  
Developer Inf.     12                    2                  4
Military  Pi        5                    3                  
Developer PI        3                                       2






Development Table


following is a table for Development Results for a given Development Strength
vs. a 2 times 1-6 Die Roll


this is used by the program, and is as was specified, in the
original board game rules.


           Die Roll        2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  1  1  1
                                                   0  1  2


      D  S     1..3        2  0  0  1  0  0  0  1  0  0  3
      E  T     4..6        2  0  1  1  0  0  1  0  0  2  3
      V  R     7..9        1  0  2  0  1  1  0  2  0  3  3
         E     10..12      4  0  3  0  2  1  1  0  2  4  5
         N     13..15      0  4  4  3  1  2  2  3  0  4  5
         G     16..18      8  0  5  3  2  3  2  3  1  5  6
         T
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*  Fleets with stregths greater than 18 are handled by the
   program by additional rolls on the 16..18 scale
   depending on total strength


   i.e. a fleet with a Development Strenght of 26 will get one die roll
   on the 16..18 scale and one roll on the 7..9 scale.


** The Development results represent Compatibility Difference points overcome
   during colonization. or Resourse Points during development, as well
   as ships lost by the fleet colonizing or developing the planet.