This has been bugging me for forever...

[SNAFU]

Ok, I just gotta know cause I can't find anything on this and its keeping me up at night. 

What the heck do those numbers next to the starting homeworlds you select at game setup mean? Number of starting resource extractors? Starting ship cap bonus? AI wave strength multiplier against that homeworld? Chances to win a free "I rescued humanity from two evil AI's and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." T-shirt?

What do they mean?

[keith.lamothe]

Number of wormholes.

[SNAFU]

Wow. You'd think with the number of games I've started I'd have figured that out. XD

Thank you for clearing that up keith \o/

[keith.lamothe]

It took me a while to figure it out too

[Fox Soul]

I figured it out on my first snake map.
Which was my 3rd game.

[Spikey00]

One can only know so much about the enigmatic world of AI War.

[zebramatt]

I only recently noticed it at all... but was glad that I did!

[carlosjuero]

Of all of the things I consistantly miss seeing/understanding about this game - that little thing popped out at me immediately. Of course that revelation was followed by quite a few "what does that do? what does that mean?" moments

[Fox Soul]

My newest partner in multiplayer:
"What does this do?"
*send nukes to every single planet*

Me: -_-"

[Spikey00]

(My OCD jumps right on that; can't stand the use of unnecessary nukes!)

[keith.lamothe]

Well, there's "use of unnecessary nukes", and "use of nukes that renders everything else... unnecessary".

[Ktoff]

While we're at 'bugging'

Electric turrets/shuttles? In space? How is the current supposed to flow? :-)

[keith.lamothe]

How is the current supposed to flow? :-)

Through you

[Fox Soul]

While we're at 'bugging'

Electric turrets/shuttles? In space? How is the current supposed to flow? :-)

Electricity itself it just electrons just being shot off from a mass to another mass until it rejoins an atom that needs an electron for something.
So we can just basically say electricity is elections being shot at something.

I would imagine its possible to shoot electrons, Neutrons and even Dark Matter in a vacuum such as space.

[raptor331]

Theoritcaly(aka a guess from a highschooler) from what i do know from digital electronics, Electricity travels at a rate of a few inches per second or something similar, its just that when you flip a switch, the electron "pushes" the over electrons into motion, causing an instant result of the light turning on. However because there is no matter in space for electrons to push, the damage would be unnoticeable and would be difficult to direct the attack at a specific target.

But I'm not exactly an expert so dont use my opinion in any tests....