echoview starbase queue info

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hi all

in echoview you have a button "starbase" in the planet dialog. If you
hit it you get the "starbase" info. There is a little info called "build
order" with "Queue XX" (XX is any number) in brackets. Now my question
is to what Queue that information refers to!? Is it the normal building
queue, meaning that if I have "queue 1" for example I will build the
next ship in this game if no PBPs are used? And 49 would mean that 48
bases are building ships before I build mine.

I have to know that because I want to understand and control that damn
building queue... and don't want to ask a certain person all the time (r
u reading that, Matthias?). If that is really the information I need it
would make it much easier for me.

Thanx in advance and best greetings
Michael

 

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How are Michael!

Saturday June 18 2005 20:57, you wrote to All:

MH> hit it you get the "starbase" info. There is a little info called
MH> "build order" with "Queue XX" (XX is any number) in brackets. Now
MH> my
MH> question is to what Queue that information refers to!? Is it the
MH> normal building queue, meaning that if I have "queue 1" for
MH> example I
MH> will build the next ship in this game if no PBPs are used? And 49
MH> would mean that 48 bases are building ships before I build mine.

Yes you are right, it's this way.

 

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Hi,

NOSPAM.promano@ya.com (Pablo Romano) wrote in news:1119130232
@f432.n345.z2.fidonet.org:
> MH> will build the next ship in this game if no PBPs are used? And 49
> MH> would mean that 48 bases are building ships before I build mine.
> Yes you are right, it's this way.

It should also be said that this prediction can only be made in PHost
Games. In PHost Games information about the positions of your ships in the
building queue is availabe while in THost this information cannot be
availabe, because of the way how the building queue in THost works. PHost
has a FIFO method (first in first out) while THost has an id#-based method
(e.g. the first ship is built on planet id#351, next ship on planet id#352
and so on).

cu Thomas

 

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Thomas Klebes <paradox78@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns967B7FE42DFB6paradox78gmxnet@62.153.159.134>...
> Hi,
>
> NOSPAM.promano@ya.com (Pablo Romano) wrote in news:1119130232
> @f432.n345.z2.fidonet.org:
> > MH> will build the next ship in this game if no PBPs are used? And 49
> > MH> would mean that 48 bases are building ships before I build mine.
> > Yes you are right, it's this way.
>
> It should also be said that this prediction can only be made in PHost
> Games. In PHost Games information about the positions of your ships in the
> building queue is availabe while in THost this information cannot be
> availabe, because of the way how the building queue in THost works. PHost
> has a FIFO method (first in first out) while THost has an id#-based method
> (e.g. the first ship is built on planet id#351, next ship on planet id#352
> and so on).

That is not entirely correct, Thomas.

Echoview could parse the messages for PBP- and Non-PBP-Builds and thus
get to know the position of the queues. Then it could check the rst
(and those of allies) and the data it stores itself for all known
bases and give a estimate of the maximum/average/mininum number of
bases that are inbetween the queues and the base in question.

But, as I am not using EV, this is all guesswork and I usually know
where the "free" builds queue is anyway.

Matthias

 

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Thomas Klebes wrote:

>> MH> will build the next ship in this game if no PBPs are used? And 49
>> MH> would mean that 48 bases are building ships before I build mine.
>> Yes you are right, it's this way.
>It should also be said that this prediction can only be made in PHost
>Games.
I think EV tries to predict THost queue as well, and it works as relative.
That is, it can know that base A builds before base B, and it knows that
base C isn't going to build anytime soon. Usually íf the base has low queue
number, it will build soon as long as new shipslots will open.
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Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who are.
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Hi Matthias,

timwisseman@yahoo.com (Matthias Gietl) wrote in
news:c2d97ef2.0506210125.598eb163@posting.google.com:
>> It should also be said that this prediction can only be made in PHost
>> Games. In PHost Games information about the positions of your ships in
>> the building queue is availabe while in THost this information cannot
>> be availabe, because of the way how the building queue in THost works.
>> PHost has a FIFO method (first in first out) while THost has an
>> id#-based method (e.g. the first ship is built on planet id#351, next
>> ship on planet id#352 and so on).
> That is not entirely correct, Thomas.
> Echoview could parse the messages for PBP- and Non-PBP-Builds and thus
> get to know the position of the queues. Then it could check the rst
> (and those of allies) and the data it stores itself for all known
> bases and give a estimate of the maximum/average/mininum number of
> bases that are inbetween the queues and the base in question.

I admit that of course it is possible in THost to use as much information
as possible to estimate the current position of the queue. I only meant
Echoview will not be able to predict with a probability of 100% in all
cases the queue position in THost.

As i mostly play PHost i do not know if Echoview does such an estimation.

> But, as I am not using EV, this is all guesswork and I usually know
> where the "free" builds queue is anyway.

Do you currently play VPL again, Matthias? If yes, on which hosting site?

cu Thomas

 

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>
> > But, as I am not using EV, this is all guesswork and I usually know
> > where the "free" builds queue is anyway.
>
> Do you currently play VPL again, Matthias? If yes, on which hosting site?

I played (and hosted) two 1vs1 games against Larry McCarthy (after he
challenged everyone in this newsgroup in March/April).

In both games Larry gave up at turn 15 or 16 .

I will probably start playing on the net again in the near future -
that is once I get my dsl connection going...

For new games I usually look at rcworld first.

Matthias