From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!ucbcad!UNKNOWN:ARPAVAX:CSVAX:npois!npoiv!alice!sjb@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Title: Re: The Plague is killing us
Article-I.D.: alice.867
Posted: Tue Aug 17 10:13:41 1982
Received: Sat Aug 21 03:34:47 1982

Supposedly, the true number for the first factor of the
'LOP' factor is (civ + mil)/999  I have seen sectors get
plague with LOP's of 2%  The best solution I have found is
to just shoot your research level up way above your tech
level (e.g. maybe start research plants going a week or two
before tech plants)  Get those levels nice and spread apart.
The higher your research is, the better.  Countries that concentrate
solely on tech get the plague running rampage through them.
As for Empire not using true random numbers, is there any
such thing?