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Old May 19th, 2002, 08:57 AM
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Default Re: Proportions mod Version 2.2 released

A group that has been playing Proportions multi-player LAN games on weekends has suggested removing the ability to put shipyards on medium (or larger) transport hulls, because it with the ~30% maintenance reduction, it makes a really powerful and economical mine/satellite layer in Proportions.

I also noticed that it is kind of irritating to build units on orbital shipyards, and have them appear on the base and have to be manually transferred down to the planet.

I was thinking what I would do, to respond to this without breaking existing games, would be to increase the cost and/or maintenance cost of shipyards with cargo capacity, and add a new shipyard type which will simply be like the old one, with no cargo and thus unable to be loaded on transport hulls. This will mainly have the effect of increasing the cost of transport-hull spaceyard ships so they are nearly as expensive as maintaining a cruiser-hull spaceyard ship.

The main side-effect for existing games would be that existing spaceyard components would become more expensive and ones not on transport hulls would want to be upgraded to non-cargo Versions.

I want to know if anyone will be miffed or sees any problems with this, particularly anyone currently playing in my Proportions game on PBW.

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