Stupid question about facility construction that should be obvious...

MegaTrain · #1 October 28th, 2001, 05:58 AM

Playing a solo game today on patch 1.41 (not the new one), I switched one of my newly-colonized planets to emergency mode (3000 per turn), and put a whole bunch of Research Centers in the queue (1500 each).

Should build 2 per turn, right?
Nope, only 1 per turn!

Is there a hard-coded limit of only 1 facility per planet per turn? I had always assumed that it would spend the extra resources on the next item in the queue.

This also seems to be the case with units. If you queue up a Weapons Platform x2 it will build both, but put a solo item in there twice, it only builds one.

Is this a bug or just a VERY LAME feature?

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Suicide Junkie · #2 October 28th, 2001, 06:05 AM

Neither. Its just "the way it is".
Multiple items completed in one turn would be a nice feature to add.

If you could put a build entry "Research Center x2" in the queue, you'd get the proper effect.

The hardcode is "max one queue line per turn"

Atrocities · #3 October 28th, 2001, 06:06 AM

[quote]Is there a hard-coded limit of only 1 facility per planet per turn? [/qutoe]

Yes. Unfortunetly there is.

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MegaTrain · #4 October 28th, 2001, 04:40 PM

This is stupid, IMO.
I always assumed it worked the same as the Research queue. Finished as many as it could, and the rest wrapped around until the next turn.

Is there a REASON it was designed this way? Union rules at the construction yard?

So maybe it's not a bug fix--but we should definitely put this on the wish list.

Suicide Junkie · #5 October 28th, 2001, 05:07 PM

Note: Any research you don't use each turn is LOST, not rolled over into the next turn!

MegaTrain · #6 October 28th, 2001, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Note: Any research you don't use each turn is LOST, not rolled over into the next turn!

I know. I should have said: "...applied to the next item in the research queue..."

But even this is not true of construction yards.