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Seriously, metal is what's important. The energy bar is, at best, a distraction.
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Seriously, metal is what's important. The energy bar is, at best, a distraction.
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Now, this doesn't mean remove OD, or using energy-structures to support heavy defenses.
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Now, this doesn't mean remove OD, or using energy-structures to support heavy defenses.
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Just
remove
the
energy
bar,
and
the
web.
Every
energy
building
supplies
its
*full*
energy
output
to
every
nearby
energy
consumer.
A
solar
adjascent
to
2
mexes?
Puts
2
OD
into
each
mex.
No
web,
no
"only
your
excess
energy",
the
OD
isn't
even
evenly
divided
between
the
mexes.
Just
"yay,
2
in
each".
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Just
remove
the
energy
resource
(
income/expenditure)
,
and
the
web.
Every
energy
building
supplies
its
*full*
energy
output
to
every
nearby
energy
consumer.
A
solar
adjascent
to
2
mexes?
Puts
2
OD
into
each
mex.
No
web,
no
"only
your
excess
energy",
the
OD
isn't
even
evenly
divided
between
the
mexes.
Just
"yay,
2
in
each".
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Boom. We lose the ambiguity of "which energy structure is providing which overdrive". We lose the ambiguity of sharing E vs. putting it into the OD economy. We lose the inconsistency between OD and web-requirements.
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Boom. We lose the ambiguity of "which energy structure is providing which overdrive". We lose the ambiguity of sharing E vs. putting it into the OD economy. We lose the inconsistency between OD and web-requirements.
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And you get people building E at the front, because if you want to get that DDM up and running, you need a goddamned fusion up there (drop the grid requirement to 20 so we can put DDMs on our Geos).
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And you get people building E at the front, because if you want to get that DDM up and running, you need a goddamned fusion up there (drop the grid requirement to 20 so we can put DDMs on our Geos).
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Cloak? Free. Shield charge? Free. Rez? Free. Adjust unit-costs and charge/rez rates accordingly.
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Cloak? Free. Shield charge? Free. Rez? Free. Adjust unit-costs and charge/rez rates accordingly.
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There are probably glaring flaws in this plan, not the least of which is that placement of energy-buildnigs would have to be obsessively perfect to make sure it perfectly touches the nearby mexes (this was the problem with the 500M OD pylon), and that a lot of Geos would be worthlessly located.
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There are probably glaring flaws in this plan, not the least of which is that placement of energy-buildnigs would have to be obsessively perfect to make sure it perfectly touches the nearby mexes (this was the problem with the 500M OD pylon), and that a lot of Geos would be worthlessly located.
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But it would fix a lot too, and simplify away something the game doesn't really need. The implicit would become explicit - a user could see *exactly* how much metal his fusion is generating.
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But it would fix a lot too, and simplify away something the game doesn't really need. The implicit would become explicit - a user could see *exactly* how much metal his fusion is generating.
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You could apply the mex payback logic to E buildings and have it behave coherently.
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You could apply the mex payback logic to E buildings and have it behave coherently.
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No, I don't expect anybody to *like* this idea, I'm just throwing it out there as a drastic solution to the problem that popped into my head.
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No, I don't expect anybody to *like* this idea, I'm just throwing it out there as a drastic solution to the problem that popped into my head.
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Extreme fix for the OD sharing problem: Remove energy.