Question about resource converters

[Admiral Grover]

[OT]Speaking of Logistics and Supply Chains, if anyone is interested in a semi-4x game that handles these quite impressively check out Conquest: Frontier Wars. I have currently only played the demo, but the system that is set up looks fairly impressive and well thought out.[/OT]

Now on topic, the resource converter is a little silly, especially with the resources being transfered instantaneously. But if you change this system, you would have to change the whole resource management system, and having planets use only the immediate resources available for construction. IMO this is a change that could not be done in a patch, but could possibly be in SEV. Would be very interesting to see.

Regards,

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[Quikngruvn]

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Originally posted by LazarusLong42:
Originally posted by Puke:
so, you can conclude that either A) the resource converter has some sort of whacked out homeworld-style matter transmission thingy built in that can instantly zap raw materials about the galaxy. or B) that SE4 is silly and has absoluetly no representation for supply chains or logistics.

I'll take 'B.' I've always thought it'd be nice to have supply chains, but then, I've never seen them in any 4X game. Either supplies are available everywhere immediately, or supplies are available only where they're created and you can't move them. <sigh>

LL

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Or, a component of the space port is a matter-to-energy converter/transporter: resources are converted to energy, the energy is beamed to other space ports at the speed of light, and reconverted to matter. And planets/space yards intrinsically have receive capabilities only. And Natural Merchants can do this without a separate facility....

Or is it too far-fetched? (Well, how far-fetched could it be, since twenty races can apparently communicate too each other without an apparent Universal Translator? Infinite Improbability strikes again!)

Quikngruvn

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[This message has been edited by Quikngruvn (edited 26 July 2001).]