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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 12:29pm
Prodigal_SOB wrote: Another of my alternate games is see how long I can keep a system going with two dwarf stars. I don't think I've made it past twenty yet but I'm getting better. That's what I keep trying, but my results aren't so good

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:54am
islander wrote: you can rack up points with a dwarf star. Another of my alternate games is see how long I can keep a system going with two dwarf stars. I don't think I've made it past twenty yet but I'm getting better.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:39am
Steely_D wrote: Trying to look employed at the same time, so it slows me down. Those bastidz!

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:35am
Proclivities wrote: That took longer than I expected to show up.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:29am
Steely_D wrote: That took longer than I expected to show up.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:24am
islander wrote: you can rack up points with a dwarf star.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 11:12am
Prodigal_SOB wrote: And it was a terrible thing to give to an unemployed mathematician. My goal is now to get one complete retrograde orbit. you can rack up points with a dwarf star.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 9:41am

Steely_D wrote:

Highest score so far about 40M.
Looks like you have to have the dwarf star at either the periphery or the center, and then focus on the habitable zones...

I think mine is around 30M using the same strategy. The scoring seems to a function of the total mass and the mass in in the habitable zone and you get the habitable bonus even when you have an eccentricity that takes in in for a few months then out for a few which I think is rather sporting of them. I think you may be able to get more points with some of the other templates that don't force you to have a dinky little earth that gets thrown around so easily even if the allowed radius is a bit smaller. As with most computer games I quickly move on to establishing my own goals. I've managed to get one Uranus Neptune type orbit swap in a system that made it the full 500 years (and if I had programmed it there would be a button to reenlist for another 500). My record so for keeping an orbit that crossed another's orbit is 438 years. Neptune and Pluto have probably been doing it much longer but they're a lot farther out and have a third dimension.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2015 - 8:54am
Steely_D wrote: Can't...stop...playing... And it was a terrible thing to give to an unemployed mathematician. My goal is now to get one complete retrograde orbit.

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Posted: Jan 16, 2015 - 12:42pm
Steely_D wrote: Super Planet Crash Can't...stop...playing... OK it's one of my favorites. I just can't pass up an excuse to post it again. Threesome

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Posted: Jan 16, 2015 - 11:18am
Steely_D wrote: Super Planet Crash Can't...stop...playing... Ooh, that's pretty cool. It's neat to speed up the playback (then slow it down at about 280 years to watch the end of my habitable planet)!

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Posted: Jan 16, 2015 - 10:34am
Super Planet Crash Can't...stop...playing...

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Posted: Jan 13, 2015 - 6:24am

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Posted: Jan 12, 2015 - 9:05pm
katzendogs wrote: Oh my. Just oh my. It's real, by the way. I understand he sold the pamphlets at shows because the music didn't always pay as well as a booklet on how to toilet train your cat.

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Posted: Jan 12, 2015 - 3:11pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Oh my. Just oh my.

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Posted: Jan 12, 2015 - 12:47pm

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Posted: Aug 31, 2014 - 8:45pm
Manbird wrote: , Indeed!

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Posted: Aug 31, 2014 - 8:38pm
Coaxial wrote: Everybody's doing it, doing it, doing it....

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Posted: Aug 31, 2014 - 7:32pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Since 1997, you're the only one not doing it.

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Posted: Aug 31, 2014 - 7:09pm
Coaxial wrote: So does this mean we have to call you Master ManBirdio now? Since 1997, you're the only one not doing it.

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