Post by SkulkrinBait on Aug 10, 2006 16:25:34 GMT
I've suspected this for a while (since colonising Salonae) but now I am sure of it, since my most recent colonisation.
As you know, if you colonise a new planet you get a 20% penalty on all your planets, until the colony is developed over the 50% space threshold.
However, you don't get any penalty if you colonise an abandoned planet.
;D
Question is, do we exploit this "bug"? It might not be a bug of course, as strictly speaking you aren't colonising a "new" planet - the rules say:
Please Note - By taking control of a new planet, you will recieve a -20% reduction in all resources produced, on all planets, only until you have developed a planet by filling 50% of its ground space. Once you reach 50% on a planet you will regain the 20% resource production lost, unless you colonise or conquor a new one straight after. Please think before you get another planet, or you could end up having to abandon one.
The key word being "new" as in "new planet". You could argue it isn't new as someone else had it, so it's second-hand ;D
What we could do, is start a new thread for planet wish-list or somesuch and then people could post which planets they would like, which are not currently colonised.
Then whoever had a spare Genesis ship would colonise it and contact the player who wanted it, before abandoning it when the other player is online so they could send their Genesis ship asap to reduce the chance of it being stolen.
We need to be careful not to go berserk and start getting dozens of planets each as then Spirit and Athena will probably twig something is wrong, but I will query this anyway when it is an appropriate time!
I wonder if our opponents have sussed it?
I'm not worried now about how many resources are on planets as with teleporters you can have a planet purely to produce one resource type and send it to a central "ship maker" planet to process, if you did this on a big scale it would be just as efficient as having a planet which had all resources. I think Timbus is already doing this.
Comments?
I can't absolutely guarantee this is right, but certainly I've had no warnings telling me I'm getting a production penalty when I've taken abandoned colonies.
As you know, if you colonise a new planet you get a 20% penalty on all your planets, until the colony is developed over the 50% space threshold.
However, you don't get any penalty if you colonise an abandoned planet.
;D
Question is, do we exploit this "bug"? It might not be a bug of course, as strictly speaking you aren't colonising a "new" planet - the rules say:
Please Note - By taking control of a new planet, you will recieve a -20% reduction in all resources produced, on all planets, only until you have developed a planet by filling 50% of its ground space. Once you reach 50% on a planet you will regain the 20% resource production lost, unless you colonise or conquor a new one straight after. Please think before you get another planet, or you could end up having to abandon one.
The key word being "new" as in "new planet". You could argue it isn't new as someone else had it, so it's second-hand ;D
What we could do, is start a new thread for planet wish-list or somesuch and then people could post which planets they would like, which are not currently colonised.
Then whoever had a spare Genesis ship would colonise it and contact the player who wanted it, before abandoning it when the other player is online so they could send their Genesis ship asap to reduce the chance of it being stolen.
We need to be careful not to go berserk and start getting dozens of planets each as then Spirit and Athena will probably twig something is wrong, but I will query this anyway when it is an appropriate time!
I wonder if our opponents have sussed it?
I'm not worried now about how many resources are on planets as with teleporters you can have a planet purely to produce one resource type and send it to a central "ship maker" planet to process, if you did this on a big scale it would be just as efficient as having a planet which had all resources. I think Timbus is already doing this.
Comments?
I can't absolutely guarantee this is right, but certainly I've had no warnings telling me I'm getting a production penalty when I've taken abandoned colonies.