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The problem with pp/empire is that it partly defeats the purpose of foci. The player would then scatter pp all over his empire in order to reduce the effects of being captured; the player wouldn't want wealthy industry world if he gets the same pp/empire from a balanced build from all his planets. ...

If we end up having to manually send minerals to each planet every turn I may have to commit ritual suicide. If you thought changing the number of farmers every couple of turns was a pain in Moo2, imagine if you had to direct each unit of food?

Yeah, sorry for 'snowballing' the economic details thread. In my defence I'll say it had gone off on a tangent before I got there.... A 1:1 ratio seems fine for v0.2. If anyone has other ideas though, I'd love to hear them. I take it that industrial infrastructure is NOT a feature for v0.2? As writt...

Well, sure they could be targeted from space, but then we would have enemy ships blowing up all of your farms, labs, factories, leaders, etc. For reasons of 'fun' it would be good to make it so that ground combat can take out ground buildings. Space ships that can destroy stuff groundside is pretty...

Wealthy industrial planets are important targets because each one represents a chunk of your all-important wealth. Shipyards are important targets because you need them to build ships and they aren't easily replaced. As a bonus, big shipyards are almost always located on wealthy industrial planets, ...

Population and infrastructure increase exponentially, since both of these build on the current level. (20 pop might increase to 30 next turn, but it can you really imagine 50,000 pop increasing to 50,010 next turn?)Forcing improvements in factory technology to be linear (i.e. One level gives the sa...

The borders in RoN are graphically pretty nice, but many of the gameplay effects don't seem appropriate to a space game, especially if event only occur in star systems. If we include borders, they should do more than act as eye-candy. Maybe they determine who has a claim to an unoccupied star-system...

Utilae: I think improving output per factory should usually require investment as well as research, otherwise a large empire gets a lot of free upgrades. Also, would higher quantity just mean more factories? What role should population play here?

Ablaze, I agree with your first two rules. However, while merging upgrades with different cost:benefit does address 'which one first', I think people still want to see discrete upgrades. I can imagine a certain segment of players running away in horror the first time they see something like 2.377. A...

utilae: on planet bound yards, they are very impractical for several reasons(although sure you could build smaller ships planetside.) Yeah I think that's a good model. Sure we can imagine tech that would allow construction of large ships on planets, but that wouldn't mean they were safe anyway. Put...

Ablaze: If Player A can build his shipyard out of nanobots, Player B can build nano hunter-killer bots to feed off A's shipyard. I think nanotech of that capability kind of breaks the game model though. Powercrazy: We can let very small ships be built on-planet (at an efficiency penalty) without a s...

First thing we might want to decide is what to call them. Are they shipyards, naval bases, military-industrial complexes or what? I'm in favour of wrapping a fair number of capabilities into these, such as shipbuilding, ship repair and reserve storage/deployment. I'll just call them shipyards for no...

Krikkitone's buildings thread has gotten a bit cluttered with ideas in several areas, so I decided to start a couple of new threads that are a little more focused. In this thread, I'd like to focus on basic economic infrastructure. Recap The economy has four areas (industry, research, agriculture an...

discord: As I'm sure your tired of hearing, a 3D engine does not mean the fleets have to manuever in 3D. Personally, I'd still like to see 2D combat done right for once before tackling 3D.

I'm generally in favour of some kind of real-time engine, though I'm not a zealot on the issue.

To expand on Ablaze's point, I see two types of buildings. One is just your generic infrastructure (4 different areas) that basically gets built automatically according to player guidelines. The second type is a more diverse, interesting type of buildings something like what you (Ace) mentioned. You...