Re: upgrading facilities pet peeve
 

The Capitol Building in Washington D.C. was originally built without the giant dome you see today. The building was built in a rush and congress was using it for years before the Level III Dome Upgrade was completed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Re: upgrading facilities pet peeve
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think it is more a problem with the construction queues not wrapping from turn to turn. I would happly build 4 LV3s in five turns If it were possible (Well I would calculate which made more sense first http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) As it is now, it is a lot like desiging a ship to be finished in an exact number of turns.

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Removing that silly restriction of having to waste production capacity if it is not used completely for the current item would really be a big improvement. It would eliminate ALL needs for silly workarounds, and most of the micromanagement still needed for this game. Imagine not having to create ships that use exactly a multiply of your production capacity, not having to calculate if switching emergency build on/off might be useful, etc.
I really hope this silly feature will be gotten rid of in SE V.

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Anything that helps you beat me is a cheesy tactic.

Anything that helps me beat you is a perfectly fair tactic.

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Advance Storage Techniques gives 30 slots?

Whoa, I'm getting that one next time.

Does that means that the Homeworld starts with a few empty slots or will those extra slots be filled?

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Agreed. Allowing the construction queue to spill over would make things more "realistic" and solve a lot of the "peeves" out there, but we probably won't see any more patches.

Anyway, it looks like the community has spoken on this subject.

Slick.

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Agreed

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As long as we can "branch out a bit", and though it's a small thing, it would be nice if, when a planet on repeat build fills all the facility slots that it would turn off the "repeat" switch. I get irritated at going to a place and telling it to build a spy sat, or a group of fighters (or something similar) and noticing later that it is repeating that build.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'd like 2 more things that generate log entries along this idea:

1) let me know when a planet is on emergency build but not building anything

2) let me know when a construction queue finishes so that I can do my "per planet" upgrade thing that I mentioned in the first post in this thread.

Slick.

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On a similar note one of my pet peeves is when you upgrade a ship design and then the new design is illegal. Such as what happens when the new upgraded component takes up more space than the original (ie shields).