Facility Limits on Domed Colonies

[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by raynor:
I like things the way they are now. I think you should be severely restricted in what you can build or store on a planet if the atmosphere is one you cannot breathe.

If Baron Munchausen's excellent ideas regarding Man hours of labor were included in SE IV, then you would have *NO* restrictions on these two quantities but it would take MUCH, MUCH longer to build facilities on domed colonies. Since the game doesn't include the man power hours to build facilities, I think that an 80% reduction in facilities makes perfect sense.

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I pretty much agree with you on this. Obviously, if anything were ever changed about this, it would be a change to the game system, rather than a mod. I do think that if a man-hours system was put in place, then there should be automation technologies to research that reduce the man-hours required to produce "stuff".

As an add-on idea, I would think that producing resources should take man-hours, just the same as producing facilities. Then there could be technology for resource production facilities that required less man-hours to produce the same amount of material.

[Baron Munchausen]

I have altered my planet sizes, too. A 5 to 1 ratio seemed all out of proportion. Of course, the population difference is much MORE than 5 to 1. So, I've changed things around to give a 3 to 1 ration in facility space for breathable and domed colonies, and a 5 to 1 ratio for population. Yes, columns will be killed but here's a summary:

Plane Sizes: Domed Facil/Pop/Cargo Normal Facil/Pop/Cargo

Tiny: 2/100/400 6/500/2000

Small: 4/200/800 12/1000/4000

Medium: 6/400/1600 18/2000/8000

Large: 8/800/3200 24/4000/16000

Huge: 10/1600/6400 30/8000/32000

This helps the AI somewhat, btw. It's lack of ability to choose the right order to colonize planets in becomes less of a handicap when the difference isn't as large and when it's possible to accomplish something useful even with domed colonies.


[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 01 February 2001).]