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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: Mon, 31-Oct-83 13:48:46 EST
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>One thing that becomes absolutely ESSENTIAL on any good sized
>country (note:  I am used to playing 300 sector countries and
>up) is a highway, completely encircling the country.  

I agree, and this strategy is also fundamental to my development.  I
found that with strategically placed roads, I could set up well
developed delivery routes that saved on the mobility of my industries.
The classic is to deliver raw materials into a sector via a road, and
then deliver finished goods out onto the road, and then down the road to
a warehouse.  Thus, industries aren't wasting mobility by pushing around
what they produce (or what their neighbors produce).  Usually, the
industries push around food to each other.  Also, for sectors that max
out on people because they are part of a food delivery route, I have
them deliver civilians onto the road with a threshold of about 900.  The
road is responsible for delivering execess civilians to an urban area,
where I can later move them to somewhere useful.

Also, as far as delivery routes were concerned, I found that my logging
in once a day was not smooth enough for the delivery routes.  Therefore,
I set up a self queueing batch system (using 'at') to log in about four
times a day to do an update.  This is especially useful for sectors with
999 civilians, since they max out on work in less than seven hours.
-- 
						J. Scott Hamilton
						!genrad!mit-eddie!hammy