Certain things are added through player special actions. They get the advantage of being first to know about them even though they are not classed as restricted tech.
Other players discover them through either scanning them or being told about them in-game.

It was - but with no timescales mentioned, and also I think no final answer on how many hulls would be needed per complex. That makes it a bit hard for players to plan effectively. Should we hold large stockpiles of modules "just in case the universe changes this week and not in six month's time" ?

For changes like this, there are potentially huge implications... what if a massive attack happened today? Until modules can be produced or shipped there, you have just seriously unbalanced the ship/platform combat equation. If we had had (for example) four week's notice that the proposed change WOULD happen we would have a lot less reason to complain

Dan

I agree with Dan here.

Could it also be policy that all major changes are anounced on SSS prior to their change.

I would save you a headache in the long run Mica.

Could you clarify what you mean by enemy lists? Is it purely the space and ground enemy lists that'll have a charge - with support and defend lists not incurring a fee, or something else?

it's purely "enemy" lists - you would still be able to support or defend your mates.

I can see a few potential loopholes though - like having admirals in the small ships, stationing admiral-ships in orbit of all the starbases etc.

Dan

Yup - orders.cfg changed

Thats right - thats psrt of the create platform order now (still requires 10 platform hulls there

Not until i code it and look into whats appropriate. The major cost issue will be on starbases and it will be coded at the same time as the changes to the targeting/ enemy/support/defend lists. The targetign will be changed to a much more definate algorithm then, depending on how far i decide to take it.

Its anything that can get you into a battle. Defend and support lists will cost appropriately less cos its less likely to get you into the battle.

I'm tempted to drop the target lists for this reason and have them generated from the battle setup every round. So putting a ship in orbit will incure little cost to the supporting SB but it will most likly leave the SB out of the battle after the ship is destroyed.

I'll do a full update about this section when i have coded it.

Should work when mica puts the new version on. I can not help myself on getting my Finds right. I always do <= so if you happen to test it on platform 2 it works but fails for platform 1.

Mica has a little look see at the platforms involved and if they are awaiting update, he waves a magic wand.

Is that the permanent solution or just one for the moment?

In future battles if a colony loses several platform controls (or a swarm of agents close them down), at what point will the efficiency be recalculated? For long drawn out battles with complexes being destroyed and rebuilt are the values reset weekly or daily after each battle?

Is Mica going to always check that the values are updated? What happens if he misses one, or is on holiday and his stand in forgets to check this. Surely this should be hard coded into the game so we don't have to worry about it but know when these values are rechecked.

Personally I'd favour an efficiency update to be done automatically if a battle is triggered. This then allows for various factors to have an effect on a battle. Otherwise on weekly maintenance is fine as its no an issue.

Updates are done after agent close actions/agent bombs/after battles/build complex/Activate complex/Weekly mainentance

It was but i forgot to add the line of code to most of the above.