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    Locating Homeworlds

    How do you identify another player's homeworld?
    I have Some combat experimenting to do.

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    Usually you can tell a home world by it's population. If the world has a population of over 400m it is probably a home world. Other than that if you get far enough along in a game it would be difficult to tell.

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    Well the other tells are home worlds are always terran and will always have a shipyard. (unless it's super early in the game.)

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    Oh well. I'll just have to hope for the best once my fleets assembled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zarkwizard View Post
    If the world has a population of over 400m it is probably a home world.
    How, other than terraforming? Or are you saying most people terraform their homeworld? My homeworlds so far have all capped at 400Mu.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magorath View Post
    How do you identify another player's homeworld?
    I have Some combat experimenting to do.
    You have to do a LOT of exploring in the first 24 hours of a server opening to determine where everyone's homeworld is... make 12 probes and just go to town. Leave a Probe in the homeworld systems so you know where to go back to in the future.
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    Noah

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    Actually, I think I found a shortcut for determining Homeworlds. It seems that all homeworlds are numbered first, so they have low numbers like Planet_7, or Planet_23, and Tsagoth's planet in my server was Planet_1.

    I assume if there are 100 players in a server, their homeworlds will be numbered 1 - 100, so you can easily identify homeworlds by this method. Even if the owner changes the planet's name, the numbered version still shows up if you try selecting it as a possible "move" destination.

    The only hitch in this method is if a player has captured another player's HW. For a PKer, this doesn't matter too much since you can kill either or for the win condition. But for trying to knock a player out, you may have to look closer and make a determination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skeith27 View Post
    Actually, I think I found a shortcut for determining Homeworlds. It seems that all homeworlds are numbered first, so they have low numbers like Planet_7, or Planet_23, and Tsagoth's planet in my server was Planet_1.

    I assume if there are 100 players in a server, their homeworlds will be numbered 1 - 100, so you can easily identify homeworlds by this method. Even if the owner changes the planet's name, the numbered version still shows up if you try selecting it as a possible "move" destination.

    The only hitch in this method is if a player has captured another player's HW. For a PKer, this doesn't matter too much since you can kill either or for the win condition. But for trying to knock a player out, you may have to look closer and make a determination.
    This seems right and it was how I figured out starting locations for some players in galaxies I didn't have time to explore until late in the game.

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