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Originally posted by Taqwus:
If you wanted to reduce the potential effect of multiple shipyards, you could use something like a harmonic series.
For any given project, sort them in order of descending production rate (in case there are non-upgraded Versions). Then the first contributes 100 percent, the second 50 percent, the third 33\frac{1}{3} percent, and so forth -- perhaps while still costing the full rate. Systems integration is NOT easy or cheap...
Yeah, that was pretty much the idea I sent to MM awhile back in addition to asking to make it possible to build multiple facilities per turn if you have the production capability. (Eg, production of 3000 of each resource per turn letting you build two 1200 mineral cost facilities in one turn or something like that.)
The way I saw it, you have the main space yard building the object while the other space yards in the sector are building parts and sending them over to the main space yard for installation. The loss in production from assisting was supposed to represent extra resources spent moving it over plus time lost/snafus/etc from having a big project like that running, all the small cargo pods transiting this way and that, massive overtime pay, etc.
I'd also like to plug the ability to tow objects within a system so you don't have to risk assembling your defense bases right on the warp point and/or tow them to threatened warp points if needed.
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