Fwurg

[Brend]

Chris and me have looked at the outpost construction costs, and we propose to change them as follows:

• Outpost Base: 1400 + 800 becomes 10000 + 800
• Upgrade 1: 1300 + 600 becomes 8000 + 600
• Upgrade 2: 1200 + 400 becomes 6000 + 400

We have decided not to change the special goods costs because that would be a strong limiting factor. Instead, we increased the tax costs to ensure that this allows those with large amounts of to sink it somewhere instead of starting multiple projects.

These changes place the Outpost at the following repayment times (totem pole sliced because of lazy us -- I'll make a page for it later):

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Outpost (full+upgrades)

: 131.43 [cost: 62100.0 labour: 2250] (@survey_duration=4)

Recycling (raws/full planet)

: 141.75 [cost: 10100.0 labour: 285] (@zones=19)

Outpost (full)

: 147.50 [cost: 53100.0 labour: 1800] (@survey_duration=4)

Recycling (product/full planet)

: 152.63 [cost: 7250.0 labour: 190] (@zones=19)

Outpost (base+upgrades)

: 162.54 [cost: 25600.0 labour: 750] (@survey_duration=4)

Recycling (power/full planet)

: 164.21 [cost: 3900.0 labour: 95] (@zones=19)

Outpost (base)

: 188.33 [cost: 22600.0 labour: 600] (@survey_duration=4)

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We did not take into account the piracy patrol cost or the trade fleet cost. But our estimates put another +8 turns on the repayment period. As you can see, the outpost

We have also reviewed the technologies associated with Outposts:

• Prefabrication: We propose to disable this technology until we have a replacement effect. The current implementation encourages spamming of space habitats and outposts.
• Network Centric Colonization: We propose to disable this technology until we have a replacement effect. The current implementation encourages spamming of space habitats and outposts.
• All other technologies are fine.

The two noted technologies should be replaced with something else (of the same name).

[Stuiter]

Seems good to me. I tried thinking up other things for techs, but got nothing.

[Fedor]

As my faction is a producer of Superstructure Components, I am saddened by the proposition :P

This proposal looks good to me. I have no immediate proposal for the two technologies.

[Brend]

This one's done.