Abilities Question

[spoon]

Well, you could make a specific ship hull with the negative maintenace, and make it so there's not enough room for a shipyard...

[Suicide Junkie]

That would merely slow down the growth... it'd still be exponential.

When you double the number of money-making ships, you can double the number of money-eating spaceyards that are producing more money-making ships.

As long as you balance the growth rate with standard races, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
In practical terms its a similar situation to the Zero-maintenance races in Stock Classic SE4.

[Deathstalker]

Thanks SJ, will have to think long and hard on this before I implement it in a mod. Could be neat depending on how I do it (maybe with a component and then a mount so its restriced to a certain size of ship...hmmmm).

[spoon]

I think if the payback was fairly small, you wouldn't have to worry about out-of-control growth too much. I forget, though, would the amount you get back vary with how much Maintenance Reduction you bought as a characteristic... ie, would someone with 120% maint reduction earn more than someone with 5% maint reduction???

[Fyron]

ie, would someone with 120% maint reduction earn more than someone with 5% maint reduction???

Yes he would.

[ November 10, 2003, 03:36: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[spoon]

well, that doesn't help matters...

[Deathstalker]

well, I guess I could always cap the max/min Maint Reduction trait....