Technology Research Suggestions

[Sinapus]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
And I considered that extending the shield to cover phased weapons spreads it thinner, so the phased levels have only a minor improvement in strength over the previous, normal level. "Normal shield" improvements cause the big jumps in strength.[/b]

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Argh. Well, so much for toying with Massive Planetary Shield generators. The shield uses the ability Planet - Shield Generation and there is no Planet - Phased Shield Generation ability in abilities.txt. Foo.

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Originally posted by capnq:

Something just occurred to me - if I conqur a planet with resource storage facilities, does my enemy lose resources? Do I gain them?

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I'm pretty sure that where resources are physically located isn't tracked. Taking a planet with storage facilities will only increase your capacity, not give you any "plunder". The previous owner of the planet will lose resources, though, but only if you've knocked his capacity below what he had in storage.

As an essential component of my blitz strategy I depend upon getting resources from surrendered enemy empires. It keeps me out of bankruptcy in organics/radioactives. It helps to reduce the huge deficit I have in minerals. I am not sure about whether you would get anything from troops landing and taking a planet with storage. But I am POSITIVE that you get all the remaining resources in storage of a surrendered empire.