Somebody DEFINE the 50% refit rule please?!?

[Suicide Junkie]

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So the retrofit cost is 50K which is more than 50% of 70k, so it shouldn't work, but it did..I could succesfully retrofit. (contrary to what I expected).

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Dude. 50% more.

If your ships had to cost half as much as the original, they'd be getting smaller every time you retrofit!

50% more of 70K is 105K

And, yes, total resources is the measuring stick for the 50% rule.

Retro series can be used to get around some build time problems, but they bring in their own difficulties.

If the retrofit series is more than 2 designs long, you end up paying more then you would if you built it straight from the shipyard.

EDIT:
As an example, doing a retroseries from a 9000 point ship/base (buildable in one turn at 3000 each resource) way up to a 100,000 point (any distribution) beast, will cost you 200,000 resources on the second turn.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 04 September 2001).]