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PricklyPea wrote on Mon, 06 March 2006 11:32

A previous incarnation of my mod had CA with 50% terraform cost. With TT that equates to 35 res and is more or less the same as insta-forming.


Well, not quite instaforming, but close. So, why not make it a base of ~70 res for normal terra, and 50 res for TT, or some other cheaper costs? Well, for one thing, with the OA's, it won't matter much. So, OA's would have to be reworked too. Actually, I like the idea of limiting the OA's potential to 1 or 2 clicks a turn. Let the De-terraformers be unlimited, and hey...they are suddenly useful.

Something missing here, is that instaforming is temporary. "Whenever a Claim Adjuster abandons a planet (either voluntarily involuntarily) the environment will revert to the underlying "natural" stats." Meaning, if you take a CA world, it goes back to the original hab. If you lose instaforming, and make them pay for it, the terraformed hab would stay. This is actually bad for a CA. It was one of the things that made the race "weaker". They become a target via already terraformed planets, vs being a monster or threat.

As a alternate balance to limiting the instaforming, doubling the chance of a permanent hab change could help things on the balance sheet.

-Matt




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