09-18-2018, 04:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-18-2018, 05:39 PM by Mr. Mortius.)
Requiring some sort of mission to go harvest materials, either by hand or with a sample-collecting ship sounds like it'd be a fun way to research the patents for some of the raw resource harvesting processes. In some ways it makes me think of the Apollo program's moon rock samples.
As far as quality and ship building, allowing any size ship to be built with any quality of materials makes a lot of sense. The improvements from using high quality materials in construction would still drive empires to expand, but would reduce limitations on new empires some. The bonus curve from quality might need to be revised if this option is taken, since the benefit of increased size resulting directly from high quality will be removed by it.
As far as quality and ship building, allowing any size ship to be built with any quality of materials makes a lot of sense. The improvements from using high quality materials in construction would still drive empires to expand, but would reduce limitations on new empires some. The bonus curve from quality might need to be revised if this option is taken, since the benefit of increased size resulting directly from high quality will be removed by it.