Something I'd like to see in the game is ...

[PvK]

Yes it would be good to be able to upgrade single facilities. It would also really help (in some mods, anyway, which have different costs for different levels of facilities) to be able to upgrade not only to the highest available level of a facility.

I don't think I agree with the comment that "Being able to build more than one facility at a time would make ringworlds and sphereworlds actually useful." Certainly those things are already extremely useful, once they are actually completed.

PvK

[Baron Munchausen]

The key phrase is 'once they are completed'... how many years does it take to fill a Ringworld or Sphereworld? Many. If you could build 5 or 10 facilities of the same type at once it would be much easier to finish one once you got a signifigant level of population.

[ July 22, 2002, 01:08: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[PvK]

I just meant it was a big exaggeration to say they weren't useful, because clearly they are, since you can combine planet-wide facilities, population effects, and defenses all in one massive colony. The fewer spaceports, mineral scanners, robot factories, planetary grav shields, value improvement plants, and so on that need to be built and guarded, the better. They also prevent the sun from going nova.

PvK

P.S. What I meant by "once they are completed" was the time and effort required to create the artificial world in the first place. The nova prevention is useful immediately, as is the ability to store massive amounts of units and to start building massive amounts of facilities and build up a massive population, where before all there was was a star.

[ July 21, 2002, 22:04: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Graeme Dice]

A sphereworld has either 200 or 240 facility slots in the unmodded game. It will take somewhere near 600 turns to fill that up.

What would be much nicer is to give the ability to turn off the one ship, or one facility per turn restriction in build queues for modders. When players get to the level where they can build sphereworlds, I _want_ them to be able to churn out multiple dreadnoughts per turn.