[Fyron]

A race that takes 150% construction rate and Hardy Industrialists spends 4500 racial points. They'd get their medium sized planet to have 4100 construction points. This would allow the proposed 8 turn colony ship (20800 minerals) to be built in 20800/4100 or 5.07 turns, which rounds up to 6 turns. This would represent a 25% increase in the rate of expansion. If you want to spend 4500 points on something, then you should get an advantage from it. And this option is really only viable in a 5000 point game, which, in my experience, is the exception, not the rule. If this is a big problem for you, then we could increase the cost per point beyond 20 of Construction from 100 to 200. That would make it really expensive to get this fast colonization.

[ 18 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]