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?