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Originally Posted by budious
since the intended effect is to overpower distorters with propaganda broadcasts, then having more amps should require more power (cost to produce energy) to break target's distorters;
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That makes no sense to me at all.
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Originally Posted by budious
so in the case of this scan, perhaps reversing the discount formula to increase scan cost at higher amp count would be preferable.
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That's messy...
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You could also factor in scanner amps / target distorter ratio to the strength of the effect or the cost of the effect.
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That could potentially make sense...
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Sure, so you'd like to take the existing formulae that you consider too complex and add "unless they're recovering from budious's special scan, in which case their alert will increase by an additional 1-5, depending on how many budious scans had been performed on the planet in the last 3 ticks". That really simplifies matters