Game mechanics, formulas, etc., Requests for info

Okay, this thread is intended as a place to request information about the numbers end of the game, such as the number of troops it takes per billion people to stop a rebellion, and to post that information when someone figures it out.

Obviously, we need someone willing to do this kind of testing, so if you are, speak up.

Requests Pending:
1: Number of legions per billion people neccesary to quell a rebellion.
2: Combat efficiency ratios for planetary defenses, and how losses to GDMs and LAMs are determined.
3: Percentage of planetary population per turn that enlist as infantry by world type. Example from the Anacreon manual

More as I think of them.

Responses are info from the old manual: not familiar with the web-manual quite yet. I somehow doubt that the forumlas have changed from DOS to graphical, but who knows?

There is a chart that decribes planetary population and equivilent number of legions generated during rebellion.

For the Defense Sats, I recall reading in the manual that they were the equivilent of starships. When I'm playing, I don't seem to get that impression, though; perhaps that only refers to attack power, and not number of casualties they take? Anyway, something to keep in mind.




Here's some things that I'd like to know:
1] How is tech advancement and population growth calculated?
2] What is the percent bonus of penalty for planetary types?
3] Formulas for industrial growth and production. Basically, I'd like to know exactly how many more metals I'll need to feed a planet for the next 20 turns, or how many more ships that a world 5 turns from now, if I change it from an ag planet to a much needed jumpyard.

I'll note that if the game experience is better served by not releasing this info, then I don't really need to know any of this. Just things I wanted to know when I had an interest in implementing my own version, way back when.

I don't understand what you're asking with number two, but I can answer part of number one with a bit of info from the new manual: Population increases exponentially until it reaches the optimum level for that worlds tech level, then it increases linearly. Of course, I have no idea what the optimum level is for anything except for Gate level. Gate level is roughly 50 billion.

You don't understand it because I must have been smoking something when I wrote that.

What I should have said was: What is the effect of planetary type, when calculating ground combat? Certain types are better for defenders, and certain type for attackers, but by how much?

Oh, yeah, that was one I meant to ask about, but forgot. Command bases and Fortresses have a 200% bonus, meaning you need roughly twice as many legions, but yes, other than that I don't know.