How can I kick out spaceport functions completely ?

[Gryphin]

Thane,
I personaly don't want to manage the economy.
I want to
Explore, Study, Design, Build, and Fight.

[Suicide Junkie]

Even by eliminating the spaceport component and taking out the merchant racial trait, all you will succeed in doing is eliminating resource production outside of the home system.

Uhm, Geo...
The homesystem needs to have a spaceport, just like all the others.

If you remove all spaceport abilities, all empires will get only the "minimum empire resource generation" as specified in the settings.txt.

By default, that is 200 of each resource each turn, IIRC.

[Baron Munchausen]

Well, it's a little better than that in the later patch levels, SJ. You get a minimum percentage of the production of your home system even without a space port. It's in SETTINGS.TXT like so many other things.

Home System Percentage Value With No Spaceport := 50

[ November 05, 2002, 21:03: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Fyron]

I think that is for score calculations BM, not actual production.

[geoschmo]

Nope it's actually for production. The default level is 25%. Quick start a game and scrap your homeworld space port, you will see that the empir generation does not drop to 200.

The resource production for the homesystem is severly crippled, but it's not eliminated as it is for other systems. The odd thing is that this property of the home system remains for the length of the game, even if your empire has to vacate the home system. You don't get this resource produciton without space ports anywhere else in the quadrant.

Geoschmo

[ November 06, 2002, 00:13: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Fyron]

Hmm... whoever I heard that from must have been wrong then.

[Desdinova]

on another thread i read that if a planet is blockaded then it does not contribute to the overall resources but the planet can still manufacture items. is this correct and would it be what thane of cawdor was looking to do?