[JLS]

Originally posted by JLS:

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With Starliner Option OFF
(Defalted; otherwise, please re-enabled if desired)
Name := SO*
With *HP* above, this is a Standard Starting Option: Resulting in a more robust game that requires LESS Micro Management and logistics. Your game will be less dependent on Star Liners with this option.

This allows for a Civilizations advance towards organized Immigration doctrines. With this, Players are now able to build Debarkation Depots that can be tied together with your Empires Supply Hubs. Easily constructed, this will increase all Population migrations automatically and indiscriminately to all Colonized Planets in that System the Depot was constructed. The need and effort for Star Liners as Population transports are vastly diminished with this option enabled.

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Originally posted by oleg:

I still think this option is way too powerfull. You can easily outpace AI so I never play withthis automatic replicant centers. It removes any need for planet condition improvement, optimal expansion strategy planning, etc.

Better option would be faster and cheaper straliners tech for this option plus "gestation vats" with high value for population growth. You will get faster development but still retain Proportionesque feature of the mod.
Just my .2c

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Originally posted by JLS:

Your point is valid, Oleg. With the Starliners ON (OS* option disabled) for your AIC game play option, you will continue to have a desperate need for increased Starliner numbers continuously. Retaining the feel that the Star Liners PVK and myself co-developed for Proportion Mod many years ago, provide.

Your reduced SL Organics suggestion has been play tested months ago. Reducing the Organic Costs for Star Liner LS with AIC, in many Players opinion does diminish the Economics and logistic feel for the need of agricultural support and its advancement to sustain massive Imperial population growths and expantion.

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With regard to(OS* option enabled)

Again you have a point as it may apply to the relative POP numbers EARLY in the game when comparing Population Totals against the AI. However, there are many more variables that are in play with Starliners OFF that is not to the Human Players best interests when competing against the AIC AI overall or as well

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Reply by JLS

Oleg, this may be a compromise.
An additional StarLiner Hull with reduced costs triggered by a subtech for those that want a competitive balance in multiplayer versus the Players that choose OS* to the players that may not desire OS* options that will also be available in solitare play.
The next Version will have increased Reproduction benefits for the generic System Bio Hospitals with added compensatory numbers on Gestation Vats for the Organic Race Players Concerns. Also to mention that this new SL tech trigger as well as the Immigration Techs both will be cancelable from the new game Techs Allowed menu for multiplayer agreement concerns.

Would this satisfy most players? And what would be the desired resource costs for the optional Star liner?

[ May 05, 2004, 02:01: Message edited by: JLS ]