Greetings, SS community; I am HAL's twin sister . The following updates are now available for testing on the test server:

The code for trade between user bases and colonies has been improved, with the following visible changes:
1. Colonies will now buy arbitrary numbers of commods; they are no longer limited to multiples of 100.
2. Colonies will only buy/sell if the base has a lower/higher price than the colony, not if the prices are equal.
3. The number of peasants bought by a colony now depends on the base's sell price. The maximum number of peasants a colony can buy is larger than before, but potential profits from peasant pumping will be much lower.

Changes to the code that determines when to fire weapons. This should improve the performance of slaves and drones as well as for AI.

A female admin? cool
the changes look good too

could really use a termite nerf in there somwhere......and welcome to SS

dunno who is gonna spend the time testing a col but seems ok if cols will buy more commods as i never understand why a 7 bill pop only buys like 20k of mets etc

I don't use colonies, and the idea of AI improved performance scares me a little, but welcome to SS anyway.

Good changes.. Good changes..
to the dev team.. and the game.. yeah the game

To facilitate testing of colonies, test is currently running with 1 colony year every minute.

thats going to be very hard to keep the needed rats on the base then.

Ive made a colony on test. Its buying and selling peasants fine, at "odd" numbers.

can i be your twin brother to?

why nerf Peasent Pumping more, u already rapped it

Trev

In theory, this will allow people to get their colonies to grow faster than before, just at less of a profit. In my opinion, pumping peasants should be more of a loss-leader to prepare for exploiting a bigger colony later.

This only works if the universe is more than FOUR months long. There just aren't enough Peasants in the AI stations to pump all of the planets that need them when the uni starts.

it sounds like a good idea to me. any chance that this might effect the ammounts colonys buy of certain items? i find that a 1bil pop colony buys as much as a 12bil pop.. population should define how much of what is bought and change the needs of the colony.