Technology Update
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| Technology Update |
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| Start Date |
| 2017-09-25 |
| End Date |
| Unknown |
The technology system in the game had for a long time been waiting for an overhaul. The common consensus had slowly turned recommend plain removal of the TL value from everything[1] and replace the whole technology mechanic with something new.
On 2017-09-25 Haxus released the patch notes for an update that could remove the "TL" as hoped[2]. The patch notes included a few questions about a few values and how to transition from the old system to the new.
However in many cases the proposed new system might have many of the same issues the old system had.
TL System
The old TL system had a few major flaws:
- On/off switch. You either had TL32 (the maximum) or you didn't have it, nothing in between mattered.
- Scaling. A TL32 spacecraft was 2.55 times stronger than a TL1 spacecraft of the same size.
- Instant tech upgrade. A new city could be upgraded to TL32 with no effort if there was access to tech disks.
- Impossible to lose. Simply saving some tech disks in your sea-chest and no one could ever make you lose it.
- Reduntent
Q System and Patents
The Q system changed the 32 tech levels to simply use the 255 quality levels instead.
- All buildings have a quality, starting at 1 and going to 255.
- Buildings automatically increase their quality slowly, taking 1000*buildingQ seconds to increase from each level to the next.
- Each building has a slight chance to create a tech disk at each city report cycle.
- Mass media building is required to spread tech disks to other buildings in a city.
- Each tech disk has a secret good/bad value attached to them, using bad tech tech will give a negative morale penalty, while good tech disks can give a moral bonus.
- Manufacturing processes of buildings have the quality of their output production affected by the quality of the building,
( buildingQ + oldQ ) / 2 = newQ.
Along with the Q system is the patents.
- Almost all manufacturing processes now require a patent.
- ... WIP