Retrofit Rant

Fyron · #1 February 13th, 2005, 07:10 PM

You need to have the retrofit add cost at least 100%, if not higher, for retroseries builds where you are just adding new components. Having a negative cost for removing a component makes normal upgrades cheaper than gamey retroseries builds. You can even do something fun like 200% cost to add a component, -115% cost to remove it. Note that you can never gain any resources from a retrofit. This makes adding components in a retroseries 2x as expensive, while upgrading a component to the next version in the family is a bit less expensive than the cost of the component alone. It also makes it so that if you replace your DUCs with APBs, you pay a lot more than just upgrading DUC I to DUC II, but still less than if you were just adding APBs to an empty hull.

Nodachi · #2 February 13th, 2005, 07:31 PM

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Fyron said:
than gamey retroseries builds.

I thought you considered retroseries a feature. Have you changed your position?

Fyron · #3 February 13th, 2005, 07:41 PM

No. Features can still be gamey.

luke_slovakian · #4 February 13th, 2005, 10:01 PM

Hey you guys can look at retrofit cost like this.... Older models of components would be easier to update because there will be more options available but the later technology is more specific in a section and requires more care to upgrade and thus making it cost more and the older version.
Get what I am trying to say?