Thread: COVERT OPs fix
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Unread 11 Jan 2019, 13:22   #10
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Re: COVERT OPs fix

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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;
That makes no sense to me at all.

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so in the case of this scan, perhaps reversing the discount formula to increase scan cost at higher amp count would be preferable.
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.
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
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