I suspect visibility is shared each turn for what is seen that turn, but not all previously observed and remembered objects.
Gifting mechanics
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Re: Gifting mechanics
Re: Gifting mechanics
Yes, this seems correct. I updated the previous post.Geoff the Medio wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:17 pmI suspect visibility is shared each turn for what is seen that turn, but not all previously observed and remembered objects.
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Re: Gifting mechanics
It was probably an oversight to only shared current turn visibility, but I'm actually inclined to make sharing historical data a diplomacy thing... It is also not trivial to do the historical sharing since latest known states of objects are more likely to be inconsistent with multiple empires' able to have last detected them on different turns at different visibility levels. How do you combine info from an empire that saw an object at basic visibility 5 turns ago with info from another empire that saw it at partial or full visibilty 10 turns ago?
Re: Gifting mechanics
I'm not sure how/why this would be different from how you combine info for a single empire that saw an object at partial or full visibilty 10 turns ago, then saw it with basic visibility 5 turns agoGeoff the Medio wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:41 pm How do you combine info from an empire that saw an object at basic visibility 5 turns ago with info from another empire that saw it at partial or full visibilty 10 turns ago?
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Re: Gifting mechanics
That doesn't really ever happen... Empires update their object knowledge on the turn they get it, and don't (individually) track multiple old versions of previously seen objects.
Re: Gifting mechanics
There still must be some rule about what happens on that 5th turn. (I think) I.e.Geoff the Medio wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:19 pmThat doesn't really ever happen... Empires update their object knowledge on the turn they get it, and don't (individually) track multiple old versions of previously seen objects.
Turn 12: Object seen with partial/full visibility.
Turn 13: Object down to no visibility. (Game reports last seen Turn 12 with partial/full visiblity - I guess?)
Turn 17: Object seen with basic visibility. -- Now what happens?
Turn 22: The state we are talking about: partial/full visibility 10 turns ago, basic visibility 5 turns ago. Whatever the state is here should be the same state when two empires with that knowledge are combined. (Or what am i missing? I expect there's something, but this is how i'm thinking of it).