Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

I don't know how a lot of you will take to this idea, I think it has potential. My one concern is it will make the game more complicated than necessary.

What if 1 factory had a limit to how many ships it could produce at any one time? Say for example each factory can produce 100 ships, and you had 1, you could only have 100 in production at any one time.

Another idea I had with ships that target structures, once the combat has calculated how many factories are to be destroyed, any ships that are in production in that factory are destroyed too (maybe producing salvage). Say 2 of 4 light factories are destroyed, and 150 light ships are in production (using 2 of the 4 factories), there is a 25% chance 100 ships will be lost in combat, and a 25% chance the additional 50 will be lost also.

Like I said, I think it may make the game more complicated than it needs to be, just wanted to know what everyone thought about my idea.

Re: Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

The problem is that it hurts new players because they're more likely to be attacked with structure killers and so lose the ability to produce ships to defend themselves, which means they get roided more and can't defend themselves and so on. Basically it works out to a bit of a vicious circle.


But nice try though :)


EDIT: A personal thought is to give -1 production eta for every 2 factories you have above the first factory, and cap this at a production eta of 3 ticks. Of course, there are different types of factories, but I wouldn't vary production ETAs for different classes of ship - instead, whichever factory you have the most of is counted, so it wouldn't matter if you had 1/1/8 factories or 5/5/8 factories.

The base production eta is 12 without any race or engineering bonuses.


If anyone likes this I'll make a thread for it so that this one isn't derailed anymore.

Re: Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

It makes sense to me, we do the same thing (sorta) for mines, sec centers, and finance centers, why not make multiple factories a benneficial thing as well? Especially since sometimes I'm a n00b and build an extra factory I can't use, and it's a waste for the entire round....

Re: Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

omg I agree with you for once :)

Re: Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

To counter the structure killer issue, we could allways vastly reduce the damge done from them

Re: Multiple Factories and Factories in Combat
 

Which would make them vastly more useless than they already are.