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Old January 26th, 2001, 08:12 PM

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Default Re: Emergency Build - Unfair

Emergency Builds should give a short term benefit with a penalty that ends up costing more in the long term. It needs to have a trade off.

I myself tend to build Shipyards 1 turn at normal followed by two emergency turns if I need it fast. Then I use two slow turns to build cheap things such as units.

Production Queues ought to start the next item immediately instead of waiting for the next year.

I think there have been several good proposals for making Emegency Builds a true trade off. I use them almost constantly because I get a net game using them. Has anyone ever worked for a company that has people work 80 hours one week and 10 hours the next? I doubt that would increase productivity, but I'm open to hearing someone prove me wrong.

Possible Penalties for Em Builds:
1) Extra Resources consumed to reflect wasteful management.
2) Decrease happiness to reflect an overworked populace.
3) Decreased population growth to reflect hazardous working conditions. Or take the idea even further to decreasing population to reflect slave labor conditions. Wouldn't it be great to capture another player's homeworld and ruthlessly work them to death?
4) Increased maintenance on things build using Emergency builds to reflect shoddy construction.

Actually, I think the 'Slow' idea should be elminated. Have normal production always be the baseline and queues can be boosted varying degrees to get different penalty levels to the items mentioned above. Have a list of checkboxes of things you are willing to do to improve production. Perhaps even have racial traits that determine which you can employ? Vulcans would probably not allow slave labor, but Klingons would not hessitate. Emotionless races could work their people harder without incurring a happiness penalty.
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