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cypher · 9 Dec 2004, 11:53

How about adding a function so you can decide yourself which roids you mine?

Hereby i mean if you have 2k of each roids and you can only mine 5500 that you can decide you want to mine more c roids for example. this would be quite handy for cathaar/terran/zik. and to me it seems kinda fair as xans almost always have even ratio's aswell.

For the people saying you should roid targets with more roids of 1 type.... that's not doable. not in the right amounts anyways as most people are quite even on all roidtypes.

BCEagle · 9 Dec 2004, 14:35

So you are saying that when over the cap you should chose yourself? I like that idea.

cypher · 9 Dec 2004, 14:51

no i'm not saying that.

i'm saying once you HAVE the roids and you are over your mining limit, THEN i think you should decide which type of roids produce resources, so you don't have to waste loads of resources for trading when technically you do HAVE the right roids you need:/

BCEagle · 9 Dec 2004, 16:36

Yeah no, that is what I took from your original post, you did a better job explaining it than I did, I like that idea. It doesn't change strategy of the game because it is still beneficial to capture roids according to what race you are but at the end you don'thaveto worry about it

Tactitus · 9 Dec 2004, 16:41

Seems reasonable, but I doubt they'll go for it. It seems they want people to use the gal fund to address resource imbalances (based on the reply to this thread). :/

Banned · 9 Dec 2004, 16:49

This would defeat a lot of the purpose of HCTs and inability to mine roids, really.

Cayl · 9 Dec 2004, 16:49

This has a lot less impact than that other rejected idea. It also has strong roots in common sense (which tbh has never made much of a difference in PA development) but come on, if you're saying that my planet can only support so many cargo ships to actually go out and get resources from asteroids, and I am the supreme ruler of my planet, then those cargo ships should at least obey my orders.

I don't think this will reduce galaxy trading too terribly much, as it will only affect people in the short term while they research or people who are huge at the end of the game. Upsides are giving players a warm happy feeling of playing a game that makes slightly more sense than it did last round.

Envious · 9 Dec 2004, 17:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by cypher

zik. and to me it seems kinda fair as xans almost always have even ratio's aswell.

most people are quite even on all roidtypes.

i wish you were right.
far from it actually.

Kal · 24 Jan 2005, 12:56

i'm leaning towards approving this

Remy · 24 Jan 2005, 14:41

i agree. Its nice

TheRat · 24 Jan 2005, 15:30

Yup, sounds good to me.

macros69 · 24 Jan 2005, 15:46

i agree with this idea - so say you lose out on 10000metal 10000crystal and 10000eonium and you want more E would it look like 7500metal 75000crystal and 15000eonium or will there be drawbacks to doing this ???

demiGOD · 25 Jan 2005, 02:34

or maybe using the same principles of the engineering priorities feature with similar ratios (5, 10 and 15%) plus ofc, whatever bonuses the player's got, so galaxy funds and open market funds can still be utilized with less of that heartache of getting ripped off

Conall · 25 Jan 2005, 15:38

Approve it!! It makes sense.

pig · 31 Jan 2005, 05:19

Sounds like great idea imo, nice going cypher

Marv · 6 Feb 2005, 18:52

I think it is a good idea, it will make slightly fairer on the on Xan races since Xans always are even.

Marv

Appocomaster · 6 Feb 2005, 19:54

I think it would help all races. It wouldn't alienate the gal fund, as firstly you have to have insufficient researches done to force the ability to happen, and most of the time if you have wrong ratios it forces changing with the gal fund or with the exchange rate. This way, when you're already loosing roids for insufficient research levels, you don't loose even more money changing it through funds, so you don't have something like: metal 857100 crystal 350000 eonium 1600 left after buying ships, etc.
Just if theres a few boxes where you can adjust the unmined asteroids .. or something, stuck under the current mining information page, right under the bit where it says "you are currently missing out on <blah> resources due to insufficient research". And of course it'd only appear at the same time as this message. I know it'd make the page longer, but i think it's the best place to put it. Fully agree with the idea

Kal · 23 Mar 2005, 23:53

this will get approved unless there is now a string of strong obections