PBW ethics, opinions please.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by couslee:
I also think retro-series building is gamey. the 50% max is there for game balance reasons, and to prevent abuse

Personally I've never understood the need for an arbitrary limit. Well this post got me thinking and I think I've worked out how to abuse the retrofit system (took me a while as I'm not sneaky enough!) What I'm thinking of would probably be time-effective but very costly.

On a similar note, I'd submit that my refitting of entire fleets in one turn whilst sitting deep in enemy territory (I tend to pack a lot of repair bays on fleet support ships, plus the odd one with a space yard) is another gamey way of using the retro-fitting system, although I'd not thought of it in that way before. It doesn't seem right that ships could perform major overhauls on eachother whilst sitting in a storm close to an enemy homeworld

The emphasis should be on making major reconstructions slow, not outlawing them altogether, especially as long as there's a simple way around any limit. I quite like the way MOO2 does it (assigns the refit to the planet as a construction queue item) - although the fact that the ship disappears for the duration of the refit is a little strange.

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