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From: hammy@mit-eddie.UUCP (J. Scott Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: Strategy & logistics
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 11:16:21 EDT
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I too, found logistics to be rather boring, and because of this, you
might say I started to "research" the delivery system.  A system of
deliver routes to shuttle your goods around, plus careful forethought as
to the placement of your sectors, can be a godsend.  At one time I had
the following completely automated:

shell plant    gun plant    harbor    warehouse    urban area
requisite mines   requisite agribusinesses
library   radar station   weather station    (food supply)
several forts 

The urban area was supplied with iron, and all other industries were
well stocked.  The object of the experiment was not to have goods pile
up from lack of mobility.  I found that this is possible with the single
exception of food.  This is okay, because when the delivery route maxes
out, you contract the agribusiness, and since it delivers all the food
it can before it sells the rest to the deity, this system wins.  The
guns and shells were sent to a warehouse, where I later hand distributed
them to the harbor for arming the ships, and to the forts for defense.
The only other thing I moved around was civilians from the urban area,
to other lands to develop.  Eventually, because of the food deliver
route, almost all the sectors maxed out on civilians, and the regeon
really cranked out the goods.  Occasionally I had to tweak the
thresholds to get everything moving smoothly.  I am now working on
developing a country from the ground up with this philosophy in mind.
If anyone is interested, I can reply or post some of the tricks that I
have learned.

-- 
						J. Scott Hamilton
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