upgrading facilities pet peeve

[Slick]

I don't think there is a way around this, but I thought I'd ask everyone how they handle this. Let's assume that you have researched "Applied Research" far enough to be able to build Research Center III's. With default construction rates for a planet without a spaceyard (2000 M, 2000 O, 2000 R), I like to build Research Center II's until the planet is full and then upgrade to level III's because II's can be built in 1 turn, but III's take 2 turns to build. Let's leave other variables out of this discussion for now like Central Computer Complexes and System Computer Complexes and using spaceyards everywhere. I use the same scheme with mineral miners, intel centers, etc.

Here's the part that bugs me. Once I get level III of any of the facilities, upgrading facilities has to be done on a per-planet basis. I can no longer use the Construction Queues screen to "upgrade facilities" because it will switch all my level II facilities in various construction queues to level III's. What I really want to do is only upgrade those planets which are already full. I actually dread getting my first level III facility of any kind because of this, and that level III facilities aren't that much better than level II's.

So here's the question: how do you guys handle this?

Slick.

[Fyron]

I personally try to avoid cheesey exploits like building obselete facilities to upgrade them.

[Slick]

Thanks for that bit of insight.

Slick.

[Baron Munchausen]

I asked MM for the option to upgrade specific facilities instead of 'all of nothing' numerous times. We can choose to scrap specific facilities globally, after all... Like so many other interesting ideas, it never got a response.

[spoon]

Originally posted by Slick:
So here's the question: how do you guys handle this?
Slick.

Usually with a beer or two to ease the pain.

[Slick]

Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Slick:
So here's the question: how do you guys handle this?
Slick.

Usually with a beer or two to ease the pain.

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That pretty much answers my question. Unfortunately.

Slick.

[Cheeze]

Can you do a multi-add for upgrades? I realize it's not convenient, but it's an option, and perhaps a step above doing each planet one at a time.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Slick:
Thanks for that bit of insight.

Hey, you asked how we handled it... that is how I handle it.

Originally posted by Cheeze:
Can you do a multi-add for upgrades? I realize it's not convenient, but it's an option, and perhaps a step above doing each planet one at a time.

I do not believe so, no. You also can not add facilities with the multi-add feature.

[ March 08, 2004, 05:02: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[PvK]

I thought the patch notes said something about adding a new feature with upgrades.

As for how I do things, I almost never intentionally hit the dang "upgrade all" button - I hate that thing. It's a pain to hit by accident, and then have to go around cancelling stupid upgrades. Of course, it's a lot more annoying in mods where upgrading is not a trivial decision - in which case that global upgrade button is a curse.

PvK

[Fyron]

I believe that was in reference to the bug where you could build one facility, add an upgrade to the higher level, then move that upgrade to the back continually as you build more facilities. You can then upgrade all of them for the cost of just one facility.