New Mod - "Economies of Scale"

Ed Kolis · #1 August 2nd, 2003, 03:12 AM

Economies of Scale Mod v1.1.0

This mod is inspired by an idea posted by Erax and Suicide Junkie on the Shrapnel forums that he suggested to improve realism in SE4 and balance out smaller vs. larger ships. The idea was this: ship strength stays fairly linear in proportion to size, but cost increases as the square of the size, representing the infrastructure necessary to construct large vessels, while maintenance increases as the square root of the size.

[ August 03, 2003, 22:46: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 August 2nd, 2003, 06:21 AM

*clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap*

Taz-in-Space · #3 August 2nd, 2003, 06:55 AM

Ummm, Narf! You sure got a bad case of the 'clap' there!!!

Ed Kolis · #4 August 2nd, 2003, 07:03 AM

What the... Narf registered five months ago and he has more Posts than me? SPAMMER!

(So, you like it or something? Shocked at the cost of those starbases?

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narf poit chez BOOM · #5 August 2nd, 2003, 10:32 AM

was wondering how long it would be before someone made that joke. and i'm not a spammer. each and every single one of my Posts has a...nah, who am i trying to kid? i post jokes. i post a lot of jokes.

didn't look at it, just wanted to congratulate you on all your hard work. seemed like the thing to do.

ok, now i did.

the escort doesn't have a cost, the square root of 200 is 40000, so what did you mean by square of size? and the square root of 200 is 14, so what do you mean by square root of size for maintanence?
your destroyer tonnage is 4500

ok, so your subtracting about 15 resources per kiloton? that still doesn't explain the cost of the frigate.

[ August 02, 2003, 09:47: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Erax · #6 August 2nd, 2003, 08:28 PM

Good job Ed. I have to download this and try it out.

The 'building cost increases with the square of the size' idea was mine, and to tell the truth I didn't give it a lot of deep thought when I wrote it, it just came off the top of my head. SJ came up with the maintenance cost progression.

Here's the original thread. See replies 5 and 6.