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Originally posted by Nyx:
I know Drake used Time and robot stacking, but I don't really have a problem with that.
Actually, I didn't use it. I don't have any time shrines in my game. *shrug* That would've put me at 313M.
The game in most instances doesn't allow facilities of the same TYPE to stack. You aren't supposed to get the benefit from both.
An example of this is the medical lab and gestation vats. If I have gestation vats on a planet, and try to build a medical lab in the same system, I get the warning, "You already have a facility in the system with similiar [sic] system-wide abilities." If you build both, you'll only get the bonus from the best one (gestation vats).
For the specific instance of Time Shrines and System Robotoid Facilities, the game will also warn you about the redundancy of the facility you are building. This clearly indicates to me that they aren't supposed to work together even though they currently are. Otherwise there would be no reason to warn me when I'm adding it to my build queue.
From the wording on the warning, I thought it was clear that only one TYPE of system-wide ability facilities would be allowed per system, and that the issue with time shrines was a bug, and thus should not be allowed.
If you do allow them, it just means that ppl will be forced to take religious. Those that didn't are pretty much screwed....(you did mention we could resubmit a game saved from a previous point, right? I need to redo my Last 5 turns if this isn't disallowed, heh.
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-Drake
(clarity edit)
[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 17 February 2001).]