AI spaceship travel faster ?
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AI space ships only travel faster if they build more thrusters/engines than the player.
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I would load it if not at work. It's the same with thrusters, too. If your ship and the AI ship launched on the same year with the same exact parts, you'd win (your turn comes before the AI turn in SP), so I suspect strongly you're mistaken somewhere, though again maybe not ---> can't access save.
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In the very rare event that >1 teams pass the victory tests during the same IBT, the game determines the winner via a dice roll ... 
(IIRC that is different from the way World Wonders are handled in a tie break which are always given to the team with the lowest ID --> usually the human player with ID=0).
Code is in CvGame::testVictory()
bad luck for you 
(IIRC that is different from the way World Wonders are handled in a tie break which are always given to the team with the lowest ID --> usually the human player with ID=0).Code is in CvGame::testVictory()
Code:
if (aaiWinners.size() > 0)
{
int iWinner = [B][COLOR="Red"]getSorenRandNum[/COLOR][/B](aaiWinners.size(), "Victory tie breaker");
setWinner(((TeamTypes)aaiWinners[iWinner][0]), ((VictoryTypes)aaiWinners[iWinner][1]));
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Oh, wow. I apologize for my misinformation above. I'd never heard of a "coin flip" dice roll to determine a tie-breaker. Usually, the line of civ IV is "there are no tie breakers, because there are no ties".
Looks like we have ourselves an exception.
Looks like we have ourselves an exception.
JonathanStrange
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Interesting, I'd been wondering myself about tiebreakers but seeing the code is better than remembering an old thread from a different Civ version!
On a related note, what's the formula for the thrusters and engines? I often find myself building only one engine in my Ironworks city and launching--I can usually beat waiting for a second engine by a turn or two by going without it.
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Each engine/thruster is 2 turns faster on normal speed. Unless you get fusion before other techs or can build engines concurrently at VERY similar rates, it's better to launch with 1 in many cases.
ok but the point is that i launched the spaceship 1 turn before himIn the very rare event that >1 teams pass the victory tests during the same IBT, the game determines the winner via a dice roll ...
how can he complete spaceship on same turn as me....
