Resource generation by units in cargo

[Deathstalker]

hmmmmm....could we then have troops that could be 'farmers', 'scientists' etc and generate points....could be interesting.

[Loser]

Can we get an answer from a beta tester?

Will the resource-generating attribute work on Units?

Will it work on Units while in cargo?

[Puke]

im guessing that this wont work. mainly because of how sats work - if you have hyper optics on a sat, it wont show you anything while its in ship or planetary cargo. but when its deployed in space, it shows you cloaked ships.

I would immagine that other things are the same way. maybe you could make research generating sats, and launch them into space. I wonder if they would pickup % bonuses for planets or asteroids that they are over, without reducing them because of remote mining?

[Paul1980au]

Perhaps low orbit research and intel facilities ? interesting perhaps a penalty on those planets where they are in orbit.

Perhaps a cap could be placed on the amount of research and or intel projects could be placed in each empires territory or even in individual systems.

Also perhaps a higher maintence cost for such components. Its interesting or just allowing them on bases only. ?

[dogscoff]

Or allow modders to attach production modifiers to map objects, so that for a ship-borne research facility to be really effective it needs to be in orbit around an interesting star/ in a black hole system etc.

Or ship-borne intel gets a bonus when in orbit above an enemy planet, leading to cloaked recon ships...

[Rollo]

Originally posted by Loser:
Can we get an answer from a beta tester?

Will the resource-generating attribute work on Units?

yes

Will it work on Units while in cargo?

no

[Arkcon]

Or, dare I hope, a bonus for research platforms in special systems? Or a bonus for intel ships while they're cloaked in enemy space?

[ February 24, 2004, 14:53: Message edited by: Arkcon ]