[DocShane]

Originally posted by Mylon:
[QB]It seems that a huge amount of the facilities are redundant, if not plain useless.

Settlements cannot be upgraded into cities, and seem in themselves pretty useless. Cultural Centers and Colony World Cultural Centers are duplicates of each other. Many of the buildings are replaced by higher tech Versions before they're even constructed (Ship training). There also seems to be parallel development of the same basic structures (Mineral miner facility, mineral miner complex, ect). The sheer number of facilities already promises to make finding the right one among the list a little bothersome, given how the mod tries to focus on upgrading facilities rather than building higher level ones.
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This sounds like the real world, which is what I think PvK is trying to mirror with the proportions mod. After all, I bet your local post office is not a brand new building with the latest and greatest sorting technology. Heck, my post office in a town of 300 is nothing more than a shed with a space heater for the winter, quite literally. In the town nearby there is a larger brick postal building, a UPS agent, 2 internet providers, and a courier service. How many different ways do you need to send a message? They are redundant, but each has its own particular strengths and weaknesses. I use all of them at different times for different reasons. Proportions mimics this by giving you choices. Sometimes they are confusing choices, and sometimes you will make bad choices, but this real world.

Thanks PvK. I want to encourage you to continue making the mod more complex and more confusing. For a newby to the SEIV universe, the standard game has plenty of complexity. But for those of us more experienced with SEIV, the standard game is good, but has lost it's "Fog of War" appeal. IMHO a good wargame recreates the uncertainty of conflict and the ability to make bad choices. Standard SEIV has done a very good job of this for a wargame, but the proportions mod takes it even a step further.