Monday, March 01, 2010

Proposal: Encouraging elaborate inventions

Timed out and failed, 8-5, with 3 unresolved abstentions. Josh

Adminned at 03 Mar 2010 11:12:52 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.

Comments

ais523:

03-01-2010 11:49:35 UTC

Invention costs are too high at the moment, although I’m not sure if this would make them too low.

Put:

03-01-2010 11:54:07 UTC

It seemed a bit too high.

Kevan:

03-01-2010 13:56:07 UTC

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.