Half Factories

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Desertfox

Ambitious Packrat

Posts: 4,058

Monday, April 23rd 2007, 6:45pm

Half Factories

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1) Change the scale at which we divide our economies into "factories". A smaller "factory" would produce less material, but would take less material and time to construct, and it would pay itself off much sooner (that is, not the 20 years it takes currently).

For example, if we changed a factory from:

"A unit of industry costing 10 IP, that produces 1000 t or 0.1 IP per quarter"

to

"A unit of industry costing 5 IP that produces 500 t or 0.05 IP per quarter"

...then India would go from 11 to 22 factories, without actually changing its overall capability. What would change is that the allocation of factories between ship materials and infrastructure points could be fine-tuned. It would also mean that India could build its economy in many small steps rather than a few large leaps.

One could also scale at 1 to 4, 1 to 5, or 1 to 10 without the math getting complicated.

This is Rocky's proposal for smaller factories.

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Red Admiral

Italian Stallion

Posts: 7,019

Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 4:57pm

It might be less confusing to go for 1/2 factories instead of changing the definition at this point.

E.g. a half factory (0.5) that produces 0.05IP or 500tons and requires 5IP to build.