Upgrades and Planet Quality

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I found some unused icons in the game, including a "mantle excavator" and a "core tap."  These got me thinking about a race that is so evil, they don't even think twice about destroying the planets they live on.

 

If a central mine were to cause a 10% loss in planet quality, and a mantle excavator were to cause a 20% loss, would the planet suffer a total of 30% when the central mine upgraded to a mantle excavator?  Upgrading to a core tap, with a penalty of 30% would leave most of the planet uninhabitable.

 

If each version caused a 10% loss, the planet would suffer a cumulative penalty of 30%, but those planets untouched by a central mine or mantle excavator would only suffer a 10% penalty.  That just wouldn't be right.

 

I'm under the impression that the designers of this game were thinking along the same lines, but couldn't square that circle, either.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If a central mine were to cause a 10% loss in planet quality, and a mantle excavator were to cause a 20% loss, would the planet suffer a total of 30% when the central mine upgraded to a mantle excavator? Upgrading to a core tap, with a penalty of 30% would leave most of the planet uninhabitable.

Probably. But you don't want normal structures to give you a planet loss because destroying them doesn't upgrade the planet back. Also, you don't want to upgrade 1pp structures. There's a bug in the game that messes this up unless you make both of them indestructible. Then again, any structure that gives a planet bonus or malus should be indestructible.

 

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thanks for the quick reply.  So much for having the Torians eat their planets out from under themselves.  Then maybe they wouldn't want to dig in the same spot, over and over again.  The only improvement that ruins a planet in the vanilla game is the Aul Incinerator.  The Central Mine is already indestructable

 

I don't think upgrading these structures would be any worse than fusion/anti-matter/quantum power plants.  Perhaps only the final incarnation "Core Tap" would produce a -1 to planet quality.  Food production/moral/influence maluses would have to be the order of the day.  Of course, they would be indestructible.

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