Proportions and Facilities

[Aub]

Originally posted by PvK:
...I only have to consider maybe 2-3 empty construction queues per turn, while in my standard games, I often have dozens to think about each turn.

Hmm, right, but in the original SEIV, you can queue things up for years ahead since the choice is really straightforward.

2) It may be because I'm so familiar with the facility values in Proportions, and have set up some spreadsheets as I designed and balanced them, but to me the facility choices don't seem all that complicated.

Ok, ok, I admit, I just don't feel comfortable with this system - maybe I don't understand how to deal with it! Could someone tell me what a usual development path for a colony world would look like?

Let's suppose I build a bunch of lowest-level cities first, say, 15 or 20 - now upgrading them all is a very bold move as it will take forever to complete... So I need to build two-three of them, and then I upgrade these to the next level, right? What about the level after that - it again takes forever! Also, as soon as I reasearch the third level, upgrading to the second level is not available for other worlds, so I need to be very careful with that. Hmm. I feel like I'm solving a puzzle, and this puzzle does not really belong to SEIV. It feels somewhat artificial, doesn't it?

3) Maybe there's a way, but offhand I think it might not be possible to give the homeworld 500 facility slots, without giving all breathable planets 500 facility slots...

That's OK - in Proportions, any breathable world can anyway be developed ad infinum - bringing it even to half the strength of a homeworld takes forever.

Thanks for listening me out -- Aub