Bromstarzan wrote:
- 1) is the "Focus logistics" implemented? If so, what does it actualy do? I could not find much about it in the Pedia. For example, if I have a Silexian population that do Great Supply +2, should I set that planet to "Focus: Logistics" - and how does that affect my supplylanes? For the Silexian species, Pedia also says Preferred Focus: Research, while a few lines up it states - Bad Research: -50%. Are these numbers dynamic so they depend on the environment (hence the somewhat contradictory info in my particular example)?
Species parameters are set, they have Bad Research because they're not very good, but they like doing it more than other things (seriously, not all species are actually worth using much of). The only real use for Silexians is their supply bonus, very useful at one end of a large empty area.
Supply is currently not very well described in the Pedia because we've just redone how it works (well, Geoff has) and we need to finish testing it a bit and then update the documentation. You want to have all your planets linked up, and importantly you want your borders to have good supply so your ships can explore/invade better, each supply point will link a planet one further space away, if two empires compete for the same node then the empire with the highest will get that node, if tied no one gets it.
So Silexians, especially on a small or tiny world, set to Logistics, can be very useful at the border or when invading—worth noting that with the new system you can override an enemies control of their own systems if your supply is high enough (that would be one of the things we need to balance a bit I think, you can completely stop the AI from being able to build things in the right circumstances).
2) Any plans on adding "Logistics" to the "Game Graphs" window?[/list]
Not at all sure what you'd have display here, it's a per planet meter that gets better depending on tech researched, graphs are for empire wide variable stuff.
EDIT: Now I just found this:
Interstellar Logistics
Unlocks the Logistics focus setting, which increases the Supply of planets by 3.
Increases Starlane Speed of your ships by 20 when they are within 50 uu of a controlled planet.
So, it is indeed implemented and functional, I just need to figure out the exact benefits
Hope that's clearer (and I might tidy up my wording and use it as a Pedia article if it is so question anything unclear).