Proposal: Encouraging elaborate inventions
Timed out and failed, 8-5, with 3 unresolved abstentions. Josh
Adminned at 03 Mar 2010 03:12:52 UTC
In rule Inventions, replace
An Invention itself also has a Power Requirement, equal to the total Power Requirements of its Parts, plus the square of the number of Parts it has, plus five times the number of different Resources involved in its Composition.
with
An Invention itself also has a Power Requirement, equal to the total Power Requirements of its Parts.
As it is now, producing a relatively simple invention with two or three parts that requires several different resources will send your income into the negative straight away.
It seemed a bit too high.
Square of the parts is a bit steep for bigger items, but five times the Resource types seems like it’ll make the Invention process interesting. Invention should involve some compromise.
so 
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