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ORIGINAL: Fishman

There's no such thing as a "chassis" in DW. Ships are all built free-form, and the only thing that differentiates ships from each other is defined roles which carry mandatory equipment requirements needed to fulfill that role, and whatever else you care to staple onto it. Of course, allowing a player to define his own "free-form" roles by typing a new role name into a box would be nice. But all that other stuff is too SE-like and not really DW's style. A ship is defined by its parts and its role, not by some arbitrary chassis rules.

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ORIGINAL: Geroj

From my point of view it will be sufficient if ships categories are limited only by numbers of reactors.
Escort, Colony ship, Exploration ship max 1 reactor
Frigate, Troop transport max 2 reactors
Destroyer max 3 reactors
Cruiser max 4 reactors
Capital ship, Resuply ship max 5 reactors
Bases are stationary and can collect power from stars all the time so there is no need for reactor restrictions

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ORIGINAL: Geroj

Escort, Colony ship, Exploration ship max 1 reactor

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ORIGINAL: Geroj

Capital ship, Resuply ship max 5 reactors

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ORIGINAL: Fishman

The way the Research bonus works for governments and races should be changed from being applied before the cap (worthless) to being applied after the cap, in the same way the Ruins bonus is applied (awesome). As it stands right now, all the research races, particularly the Quamenos, are basically shafted, as the Quamenos have absolutely no other real selling points beyond their massive research boost...which is entirely worthless since they cap the same as anyone else.

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ORIGINAL: Geroj

Escort, Colony ship, Exploration ship max 1 reactor

Are you joking? You can't even operate a hyperdrive on one reactor sometimes. The starting reactor is incapable of operating many starting hyperdrives and you NEED two reactors. Even in the end game, two reactors are needed just to operate the weapons!

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ORIGINAL: Geroj

Capital ship, Resuply ship max 5 reactors

You jest, right? Even the smallest capital cruiser has at least 6 reactors just to power its weapons! Have you ever actually BUILT any of these ships?

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ORIGINAL: OberonDark

Interesting's 1.04 economy thread inspired this idea.

You'll find a LOT of commerce in NYC and other big cities as compared to smaller cities. However, in DW, planets (cities) can eventually all grow to a massive size and then bring in that income. You don't see every small town turning into an NYC. The world would be insane. And it wouldn't be the positive money-flow you see in the game.

I propose that there should be advantages and disadvantages to large/urban and small/rural colonies.

I think there should be a food production value, and this could be turned into its own research area (farming/genetic plant modification)

As a basic framework, a planet's food production is inversely proportional to size/population. You would be able to "designate" food production planets (slower population growth/impose a limit/less immigration?) If you want to get deeper, designate a percentage of Urban and Rural area. Urban areas could still produce food (indoor greenhouses, etc. - Coruscant in Star Wars didn't import EVERYTHING, but most)

This would also add a strategic value. Do you attack an opponent's center of commerce and technology, or destroy his farming worlds? A comparison would be - Do you bomb Wall Street, or do you set fire to the country's farms?

Oh, and crime should be a seperate corruption value for individual planets. I don't know how that would work, but I think it would be interesting and could be used for different things.

Large/Urban
+ Centers of Commerce
+ Established Defenses (More Troops, etc.)
+ Technology Centers (Where ships are mainly produced, etc.)
- Crime Value (Mini-corruption on a planetary basis)
- Would require a lot of food

Small/Rural
+ Powerful food producers
+ Guerilla Warfare (Ground battles take far longer to resolve, takes longer to bombard)
+ Less Crime (People know each other)
+ Self Sufficient
- Much less tax income
- Does not have the population required to produce large ships

Anyone can feel free to adjust these ideas or lists.

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ORIGINAL: Sliverine

u should overclock your processor. The base i7 920 is slow and the dynamic turbo-boosting doesnt seem to add much. I overclock my 920 to run at 4ghz at all times and i have almost similar stats to your machine and the only time i have ever experienced any sort of lag was when i was playing a 1000 star system game and almost the entire galaxy was revealed to me by that point of time. The amt of ships flying all over the screen was horrendous and by that time, i had so many ships that simply opening the ships & bases screen took me 2 seconds where it once opened instantly. For a high end machine to have a 2 sec lag wld mean a lag of over 10 secs on a lower end machine

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ORIGINAL: Druthlen

Wow this post is getting huge. Can we delete it and recreate it with a new condensed master wish list in one post with bullet points for easy reading.

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ORIGINAL: Drusek
Also those racial bonuses are also worthless compared to +600% from black hole...

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ORIGINAL: Drusek

"DELETE all obsolete unused (with 0 build) designs" button
At the end-game there can be hundreds or even thousand obsolete designs that just slow down loading of designs window (yes, w/o showing those designs)

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

A branch of research for the chassis that gives you say a Corvette, PG, Escort to start with and goes up from there, in the following order. This would also be highly beneficial to differentiate the various chasses as each chasses type could have a componant cap based on space available:

PG - Patrol Gunboat. Smallest ship capable of performing the system patrol mission. 100 Componant Space -20% cost
FFL- Corvette. Slightly larger than the PG, Able to perform a similar mission for a higher cost. 150 Componant Space. -10% cost
FF - Frigate. Standard Frigate, 200 Componant Space. Base Cost
DE - Destroyer Escort. Fills the escort roles of the fleet. 250 Component Space. +10% Cost
DD - Destroyer. 300 Component space. +20% cost
CL - Light Cruiser. 350 Component space. +30% Cost
CA - Heavy Cruiser. 400 Component space. + 40% cost
CB - Large Cruiser. 450 Component Space. + 50% cost
BC - Battle Cruiser. 500 Component Space. + 60 % cost
BB - Battleship. 550 Component Space. + 70% cost
BBB- Super Battleship. 600+ Component Space. +80% cost

Obviously, the larger it is, the more expensive it is. And not just from components added...there should be a modifier for price on each chasses type that makes building all Super Battleships next to impossiblt. I'd say make the frigate the base at 0% modifier with the FFL being a -10% and PG being -20%, and starting at DE up, 10% incrase each level. This cost modifier applies ot the base costs and component costs, reducing or increasing the overall cost...Basically, a BBB with the exact same components as a FF will cost 80% more.

You could also introduce a fighter class with a series of Carrier Classes. this would probably require some new components as well.

Carrier types:

CVE - Escort Carrier. Light Carrier, small number of fighters.
CVL - Light Carrier. ~33% larger than CVE.
CVA - Attack Carrier. ~66% larger than CVE.
CV - Fleet Carrier. ~99% larger than CVE.
CVB - Large Fleet Carrier ~133% larger than CVE.
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