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Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue

Tue, 27 March 2007 18:28

PaulCr

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Multiple partial items[ 25 votes ]
1.	Yes	0 / 0%
2.	No	19 / 76%
3.	No, but it's useless anyway	5 / 20%
4.	No, everyone already does it	1 / 4%

It's possible to set production queues to almost complete an item and then move it to the end keeping it in the queue until you decide to finish it.
An example use for this might be if you colonised a 7 percent red that you could only improve to -4, complete 3 full terraforms and then 4 almost complete stored in the queue until you complete the required research and complete them all immediately afterwards
You might also want to do it to hide the fact that your creating a battle fleet until the last minute.
Would delibrately manipulating the queue like this be considered cheating, I know it would be if you almost completed items and then upgraded the slot to get the upgraded version cheaply but assuming there were no changes is that ok, I've not seen it discussed anywhere else.
I can't make my mind up whether it should be considered cheating, part of me thinks it shouldn't because it still cost the same amount anyway, part of me thinks it should because you could would never normally be able to complete so many items on a particular turn, ie imagine sending your battle fleet to somebodies planet that is virtually undefended and the turn you get there 20 nubians suddenly appear from it's production queue that you would never expect.
There would be a risk of losing all the production you stored due to a random event but you'd have to be really unlucky.

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		Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: PaulCr on Tue, 27 March 2007 18:28
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: Micha on Tue, 27 March 2007 18:39
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: Ptolemy on Tue, 27 March 2007 22:24
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: Kotk on Wed, 28 March 2007 06:43
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: PaulCr on Wed, 28 March 2007 08:13
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: vonKreedon on Wed, 28 March 2007 09:22
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: PaulCr on Wed, 28 March 2007 09:53
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: PaulCr on Wed, 28 March 2007 10:26
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: Ptolemy on Wed, 28 March 2007 11:58
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: Kotk on Thu, 29 March 2007 09:41
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: vonKreedon on Thu, 29 March 2007 10:00
		Re: Cheating? Multiple partially complete items in production queue By: PaulCr on Thu, 29 March 2007 11:46

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