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Viral ship cost

Archived Started by daleks · 10/09/2008 · 04:06 PM · 2 replies · 0 reads

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D daleksOP

OP 10/09/2008 · 04:06 PM #1

Hi
I noticed that in the ship building and ship`s database pages my viral ships cost a different amount to build than in the dedicated ship`s page.
E.g. V.Chiron is stated as 170,980 in database but when you try to build one it actually costs 512,940.
The same is true for the other viral ships too.
An I missing something? (I am wondering if it is something to do with reverse engineering? I notice that my ships have an `R` against them - even though they are not RE ships)
Thanks
Daleks

D Deiloche

27/09/2008 · 05:52 AM #3

^^;

The reason is an economic penalty to virals that was a "temporary" balance adjustment that Stephen made some three to four years ago, with the intention of eventually adjusting upkeep instead. Anyways... viral, a.miner, and terran ships cost 3x more to build, and marauder ships cost 6x more.

S Sol

10/09/2008 · 08:26 PM #2

The ships with the (R) next to them if you try to reverse them it will just tell you you cant do it so ignore that.

And as far as the ship cost is concerned, it also takes the upkeep off aswell for the duration of the build so if you build 1 chirrion it will cost you the price to build the ship then 1 turn`s worth of upokeep.

Also the person who designed the game is malaysian and not fantastic with maths so there are many errors as far as the economy goes with calculating upkeep and incomes :)

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