Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:08 am
Perhaps the orientation of a defending ship would determine probabilities. Assuming that the engine is always on the behind, a hit there would be more likely to wreck havoc. Much more likely, actually, since I suppose attackers would use all the sensors they have to target a weak point. It sound unbalancing, but I think that the only time a ship would have it's behind to the enemy is either by retreating or for hits and runs. In the case of the latter, a fast ship would be hard to hit anyways, so it would be fair.
About random autofac outputs, why not make them individuals? An automatic factory adds one point of production, that's it. Getting new technology wouldn't be as easy as buying it on every colony, but would take time to 'modernize' your economy.
How about more contrast between buying production and just producing it? The way I see it, the democratic race would 'buy' contracts and simply be a customer of its economy, while the other regimes would just order their population to do it, with the penalties of meddling in the economy. Of course, the one regime not to have these penalties would be unification, though it shouldn't have its prod bonuses.
Democracies would be very productive, but could only command a share of production proportional to taxes, while unification would harmoniously unite its agenda with that of the population.
About random autofac outputs, why not make them individuals? An automatic factory adds one point of production, that's it. Getting new technology wouldn't be as easy as buying it on every colony, but would take time to 'modernize' your economy.
How about more contrast between buying production and just producing it? The way I see it, the democratic race would 'buy' contracts and simply be a customer of its economy, while the other regimes would just order their population to do it, with the penalties of meddling in the economy. Of course, the one regime not to have these penalties would be unification, though it shouldn't have its prod bonuses.
Democracies would be very productive, but could only command a share of production proportional to taxes, while unification would harmoniously unite its agenda with that of the population.