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I like the base schematic idea. That way it wouldn't be much different than now except the additional step of having an architect construct it. IT will give us a renewable income source (as bases get destroyed) but still not remove the faction point sink of buying them.....Great Idea in my opinion, One use is definitely a requirement though.

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cosno wrote:

Here is a bit of a goofy thought I had.

Factory Workforce Modules

This would be a module that you install into a factory. I guess you could call it a factory power-up.

The module would have 2 ratings to it. They would be as follows:

Module Level - Module level would be 1-6. The higher level the module the greater reduction in manufacturing time. (See below)

Item Count - This would dictate how many items the factory would produce at the reduced time. This is what we would experiment on as a Master Architect. The higher we experiment, the more items the factory can produce at a reduced time.

For example. You make a Level 6 Workforce Module with an 800 item count. Here is what would happen.

You drop in a full run of 1000 items that would take 100 seconds each. The module would reduce the time to 75 seconds but only on the first 800 items. Once it makes 800 then the module drops and you are back at regular production speed of 100 seconds.

Workforce Modules are only craftable by a Master Architect. Any schematic made by an architect for this module are non-tradeable.

Level 1 Module - 3% decrease in production time

Level 2 Module - 7% decrease in production time

Level 3 module - 10% decrease in production time

Level 4 module - 15% decrease

Level 5 module - 19% decrease

Level 6 module - 25% decrease

Pretty goofy or what?

Just another quick idea. Instead of letting people buy bases and turrets from a faction recruiter, the recruiter sells them the schematic. Then they must seek out an architect with the same factional alignment to manufacture the base. These would have to be one shot only schematics.

Any thoughts....??

Freud

Master Artisan / Master Architect / Master Droid Engineer - same template for over a year now!

Intrepid

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I like this idea..it isnt really necessary, but still not a bad idea in any case.

An interesting idea, but I think the complexity and the delay involved in making factory runs is an intended obstacle.

I am quite fond of your idea, but I would suggest a different name. I'll leave that to someone more creative than me.

This would bring some variability to factories where experimentation means nothing while still giving up and coming architects a viable product. To maintain reasonable delays you may have to reduce the performance of the unmodified factory.

Oh, and it may be good to put a droid component of some sort in it. automation

Message Edited by Anthemion on 02-07-2005 03:01 PM