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Question about dropping robots

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:25 am
by Puzzler
I dropped 3 ships as robots on a world with population 21. My news reported that 21 humans indeed died. I expected, though, to see a surplus of 3 robots remaining on the planet, thus giving me ownership. Instead, the population and robot population both show as 0. Any idea why that might happen?

Re: Question about dropping robots

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:00 pm
by Puzzler
Never mind, figured it out.

Re: Question about dropping robots

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:51 pm
by drwr
For the benefit of others coming across this thread, it works out like this: dropping 3 ships means dropping 6 robots (each ship becomes 2 robots). Each robot kills 4 people, with any fractional robot rounded down. So, the first 5 robots and the first 20 people killed each other, and the 6th robot faced off against the 1 remaining person and they killed each other, leaving none left standing.

David