it wouldnt be hard to change the content to be able to use production for research etc without adding micromanagement.Anti-micro management mechanics in the game are forcing production focus down a militant path. You can't tunnel your production into growth/research buildings.
I think this is more a (half-)conscious choice of keeping the resources distinct. e.g. egassem at 300% production (once 400%), so even if the transfer ratio would be 50%, they would have been a quite good research race as well.
maybe a transfer ratio of 20-25% would be acceptable? Or even higher if it comes at a tradeoff (e.g. occupying policy slots)
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...The clamp down on expansion via "colonise every planet" further pushes production into a "make or break" military strategy.
so maybe what changed is that the payoff for putting production into growth got smaller while the payoff for putting it into military stayed the same.
it would be interesting into which directiion we should evolve this.
some ideas come to mind:
allow some/more production to be transferred to other ways of winning besides conquest or maybe transfer to enhance defense.
note there are all kinds of ways to restrict this in order to moderate this, e.g. one 400P build-once building with which provides 150RP, and one 2000PP build-once building which provides 500RP and then 10000PP providing 200RP.
with influence upkeep for fleets the payoff for big military would get lower, so one could use the production into renewing the military. OTOH the best use for old ships would be to throw against an enemy, so the incentive would further aggression as well.
but we could combine this with punishing loosing ships unnecessarily harder via opinion based mechanics. e.g. ship upkeep depending on species opinion. that would probably introduce some "management opportunities", but lead to more diverse fleets. which i think would be an interesting thing.
side-note: i think muursh should get high influence upkeep for ships; they hate war but are really good at fighting
Statistics: Posted by Ophiuchus — Fri Apr 04, 2025 3:40 am
