Stupid question about facility construction that should be obvious...

MegaTrain · #1 October 28th, 2001, 05:58 AM

Playing a solo game today on patch 1.41 (not the new one), I switched one of my newly-colonized planets to emergency mode (3000 per turn), and put a whole bunch of Research Centers in the queue (1500 each).

Should build 2 per turn, right?
Nope, only 1 per turn!

Is there a hard-coded limit of only 1 facility per planet per turn? I had always assumed that it would spend the extra resources on the next item in the queue.

This also seems to be the case with units. If you queue up a Weapons Platform x2 it will build both, but put a solo item in there twice, it only builds one.

Is this a bug or just a VERY LAME feature?

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Suicide Junkie · #2 October 28th, 2001, 06:05 AM

Neither. Its just "the way it is".
Multiple items completed in one turn would be a nice feature to add.

If you could put a build entry "Research Center x2" in the queue, you'd get the proper effect.

The hardcode is "max one queue line per turn"

Atrocities · #3 October 28th, 2001, 06:06 AM

[quote]Is there a hard-coded limit of only 1 facility per planet per turn? [/qutoe]

Yes. Unfortunetly there is.

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MegaTrain · #4 October 28th, 2001, 04:40 PM

This is stupid, IMO.
I always assumed it worked the same as the Research queue. Finished as many as it could, and the rest wrapped around until the next turn.

Is there a REASON it was designed this way? Union rules at the construction yard?

So maybe it's not a bug fix--but we should definitely put this on the wish list.

Suicide Junkie · #5 October 28th, 2001, 05:07 PM

Note: Any research you don't use each turn is LOST, not rolled over into the next turn!

MegaTrain · #6 October 28th, 2001, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Note: Any research you don't use each turn is LOST, not rolled over into the next turn!

I know. I should have said: "...applied to the next item in the research queue..."

But even this is not true of construction yards.

Baron Munchausen · #7 October 29th, 2001, 06:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by MegaTrain:
Playing a solo game today on patch 1.41 (not the new one), I switched one of my newly-colonized planets to emergency mode (3000 per turn), and put a whole bunch of Research Centers in the queue (1500 each).

Should build 2 per turn, right?
Nope, only 1 per turn!

Is there a hard-coded limit of only 1 facility per planet per turn? I had always assumed that it would spend the extra resources on the next item in the queue.

This also seems to be the case with units. If you queue up a Weapons Platform x2 it will build both, but put a solo item in there twice, it only builds one.

Is this a bug or just a VERY LAME feature?

It is a rather lame feature. This seriously limits the usefulness of Ringworlds and Sphereworlds. Being able to build multiple facilities at once would make it possible to fill the facility capacity of these worlds in time to do something with them.

Also, if it were consistent, you would be able to queue up your upgrades one-at-a-time, too. But no... you have to build them all at once whether you can afford to do it that way or not. So, if you have a lot of facilities to upgrade you might find yourself UNABLE to upgrade because of lack of reserves. But if you could queue one at a time you might be able to afford it. Especially if the upgrade were resource production since your production would increase each turn.

It would be really nice to either have it consistent in building and upgrading rather than the 'worse' choice for each, or even better to have the option to use the queue either way as you thought was appropriate. being able to build one thing at a time might be important when you had limited reserves.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 29 October 2001).]