Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton
From: hamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Re: The role of God - (nf)
Message-ID: <3777@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 04:30:36 EST
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.3777
Posted: Fri Nov 11 04:30:36 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Nov-83 09:57:58 EST
Lines: 26

#R:alice:-226400:uiucuxc:16400010:000:1528
uiucuxc!hamilton    Nov 10 20:59:00 1983

i have an effective but tedious technique for preventing the smelting
of gold dust into bars.  it exploits a bug that i'd rather see go away,
so the better solution is to put the smelting operation in another sector
(how about banks?  they're pretty worthless anyhow).  since there is a
limit of 16* on the number of properties of a sector (delivery/threshold,
conrtract price, checkpoint, defence, quantity of a commodity), arrange
for 15 of those slots to be occupied before the gold mine contains dust.
eg, if the gold mine has civilians and food, set up deliveries for
everything (cmfsgpidbolh).  it doesn't really matter where they go,
and the thresholds can be 999 for civ and food; i'm assuming there's none
of the other commodities to deliver anyway.  that'll use up 14 of the 16
slots available; now checkpoint the sector, or contract mil or something
to take #15.  after dust accumulates, you'll start getting messages
about 'no room to produce gold bars'.  now, all this is pretty gruesome,
and eats up BTUs, so you probably won't want to do it for isolated gold
mines.  i'm using "clearcut" mining/oil drilling: perform the above steps
for 10+ sectors in a row, designate them 'g'; come back when gmin is down
to zero and the dust is all delivered out, and re-des them 'o'; when the
oil is all depleted, the sectors may be useful as roads after the extra
deliveries and contracts are cancelled.
	wayne ({decvax,ucbvax}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!)hamilton

(we are running the 20 may 82 version; has this been changed?)