How Resource Points are calculated in VGAP4

From: cocomax@aol.com (Cocomax)
Newsgroups: alt.games.vgaplanets4
Date: 22 Dec 2002

Bases with under 1000000 colonists are worth 1 vRes point

Bases with 1000000 to 1999999 colonists are worth 50 vRes points

2 Million colonists are worth 60 vRes

3 Million colonists are worth 70 vRes

4 Million colonists are worth 80 vRes

. . .

50 Million colonists are worth 540 vRes points


Ships with over 100000 colonists get 5 vRes points

[Ships with over 1000000 colonists get 50 vRes points ...BUT this was changed Dec 29th, 2002 in Host.exe Version 4.000.121:
Changed: Resource points from having 1 million colonists or more on a ship reduced from 50 to 20.]

Factor vRes:
   If you are the Cyborg factor vRes is ajusted to 110% of normal 

  If you are Robot factor vRes is adjusted to 40% of normal
  [Game balance modifier because Robots grow far faster than other races due to converting Insects to Robots]

  If growth rate is greater than 20 and less than 190 then factor vRes is
adjusted like this:
 
     vRes = (vRes * 0.25) + (vRes * (200 - GrowthRate) / 100 * .75)
  
  If growth rate is over 190 then the vRes factor is adjust to 20% of normal

After the above you get more vRes for having colonists ANYWHERE
vRes = vRes + (ColonistCount) / 1000000)

vPool = 20000 - Host_Objects - 1500

objectLimit = 50 + vPool * ( vRes / Sum_Of_All_30_vRes )

The Object_Limit is your limit on how many object you can make. . .

So, your best bet is to make lots of bases with over 1 million colonists on
each one to get the maximium number of resource points.

   Tim