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Re: CA Balance Tue, 13 June 2006 08:37 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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tgellan wrote on Tue, 13 June 2006 12:45

Hi,
About balancing PP, wouldn't it be a good idea, instead of incrementing any settings, just increase the left over minerals from packet bombing... If I remember it right, the resulting minerals hitting the ground is something 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the minerals contained in the packet. Increasing these to 1/3 for instance would allow the PP or that planet in general to reuse more of the minerals. Another idea would be to increasing the mineral concentration of that planet. Thus balancing for the minerals lost when sending the packets...
I guess these setting to be rather deep down in code, but just to think about it...?

Comments?


Nice idea. This would not help at the game start though when PP have no much minerals at all anyway to do packet-teraforming. Helpful for later economy development and minerals recover after packet attacks. However, think in another way: when you attack enemy planet by packet and do not know what mass driver is there, and if it is there at all, there are cases when packet does not destroy planet completely. With 1/9 minerals recovered you do not give much of minerals to your enemy. With 1/3 recovery you would give much more minerals to your enemy.

So I prefer to leave 1/9 recovery, just update documentation/help file so it states this clearly.



WBR, Vlad

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