Posted by: Rich.h
« on: June 07, 2014, 03:46:39 AM »I could see this being viable in some ways, though you would need to have some limits to getting almost free industry build ups on new colonies. Perhaps if you have a new type of conventional industry that is constructed from just wealth and bp and then make it so it cannot be upgraded at all.
It would mean you can have a wild west type frontier colony that uses old outdated tech for building a few basics and then starts using the TN stuff to process minerals etc.
However there is a serious balance issue to consider, even if you could fine tune the balance between essentially "free" industry. You still then have to contend with the problems of how much of an advantage it gives the player if npr's cannot fully use it. Even if they can use it though all you get is suddenly everyone able to do things that much faster and cheaper. In that case why go to all the bother of making a new thing and instead just make all the current industry stuff cheaper to get the same effect?
I think that the problem of an industry that uses steel suddenly using duranium is just one that needs to be waved with some sci-fi mumbo jumbo. Instead harsh frontiers should be exactly what they are, harsh frontiers to be overcome.
It would mean you can have a wild west type frontier colony that uses old outdated tech for building a few basics and then starts using the TN stuff to process minerals etc.
However there is a serious balance issue to consider, even if you could fine tune the balance between essentially "free" industry. You still then have to contend with the problems of how much of an advantage it gives the player if npr's cannot fully use it. Even if they can use it though all you get is suddenly everyone able to do things that much faster and cheaper. In that case why go to all the bother of making a new thing and instead just make all the current industry stuff cheaper to get the same effect?
I think that the problem of an industry that uses steel suddenly using duranium is just one that needs to be waved with some sci-fi mumbo jumbo. Instead harsh frontiers should be exactly what they are, harsh frontiers to be overcome.