That's an interesting idea. Seems like you should be able to mod it if you give the atmospheric converter facility the same family as some other facility that gets built early on. Following several other facilities in Proportions, it could be a combination facility, such as Resupply Depot with Atmospheric Converter, or something. If it shares a family number with a common facility, and has a higher Roman numeral than others, the AI should upgrade to it once it gets the tech. The problem there, however, is it won't be smart enough to realize that it does not need the component, so it will upgrade to them even on correct-atmosphere planets.
Another idea is like what you suggest, but combined with a racial tech area so that only the AI can use them, and then yes, give them a high time period before they take effect.
It could probably be advantageous for the AI, but I also wonder at the idea of having all AI converting all their colonies' atmospheres... hmm.
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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Anything like some way for the AI to use atmospheric converters effectively? The best I've been able to do is add a "Level 0" converter that is cheap and has the conVersion time set at several hundred turns. The AI will eventually reach the right tech level and hopefully upgrade to the right machine, or eventually will end up reaching the end of that long conVersion time and get the atmosphere converted anyway.
Problem, of course, is that a human player can choose to use them as well, though IMHO one is better off using that facility slot for something like a research center to provide more points to discover other things and eventually get up to Planet Utilization 7-9. My own personal rule is that I'm allowed one planet in my home system to have one of them as a "testbed" and have to wait until I get the appropriate tech to convert other planets.
(My initial design actually set the conVersion time for 200 turns, and it works rather well... now to increase the time and see what happens when the AI gets around to researching the appropriate tech. Hopefully it starts upgrading a few worlds here and there....)[/QB]
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