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sbach2o -> How to best use characters according to their skills? (12/5/2011 2:29:56 PM)
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One thing that has me stumped about the character system in Legends is how some of their skills come into play.
Often, most of the time actually, it is obvious, like for a colony governor '{military|civilian} ship construction speed' will boost the speed with which the according type of ship construction is accomplished. These skills are in turn boosted by the according type of ship being built at the governed colony. So these characters are best used at the place where the corresponding type of construction happens a lot.
There is a case that I do not know what to make of. In me latest, faurly fresh, game, the first colony governor to appear had '% increased mining rate'. This seems obvious: The character is supposed to increase the rate at which resources are mined at the colony. Now I have him sitting at a colony with a couple important resources for (as I perceive it) ages, yet the actual amount of the bonus/malus remains unknown. I am totally uncertain about whether I didn't give it enough time to show or whether there is something at work that prevents him to gain in the skill, may a bug in how that particular skill is handled.
The next question is, whether I put him at a good colony for his skill. This depends in part on what this skill applies to. Is it only the colony he governs? Or the entire system, or a certain radius around the colony? Most mining is performed on mining stations, after all.
First, I had him about a year at my home world, with numerous mining stations on the diverse planets and moons in that system. A system-wide boost to mining rate would come extremely handy there. When I got impatient, I sent him over to a newly settled colony with lots of luxury resources (which I also have on the home world, of course), a badly needed strategic resource, Chromium, which I hadn't come around to have a mining station built for, but no other mining bases to speak of in the system.
Not knowing what the bonus exactly does, how it is best honed, I'd like to know if there is some experience about this. Or some in-depth documentation about what this skill really affects.
Are there similar cases of skills whichs effects are in doubt or unkown? I wish there were a detailed description in Galactopedia.
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