-Why does Space Factory gives that's so special?
Insane amounts of production and the ability to construct starships and other massive objects.
-Is the Revised Finance V8 up to date? How does PI's networth (I'm assuming "maximum available credits is counting on liquidating assets) jumps from 100 billion in Q1 to nearly 2 trillion in Q3?
I almost always update it within a day or two of the most recent update.
Maximum available profit is what we get if we use all of the quarter's available production to produce credits (IE: making products to sell) rather then using some for internal use, like building Legionaries for use by ParSec.
Those jumps you see are from new factories coming online. The jump from 100 billion to ~450 billion in Q2 is because we have a trio of small Space Factories coming online while the jump in Q3 is from our first medium Space Factory coming online.
To put things into perspective a medium Space Factory can produce
ten million Arc Reactors per quarter each of which generates 200,000 credits of profit. So just that one factory could generate somewhere around 2 trillion credits in profit. We are not realizing all of that profit because we only have around 5 million Arc Reactors lined up for sale right now.
But that is basically where the massive profit jump comes from.
-Are the values under "Fleets" incorrect? Dreadnoughts and Carriers are listed as 1 trillion credits a piece. Considering the economy so far, I'm finding that 47 trillion credits for a dreadnought is comically prohibitibe. That figure looks like an not inconsiderable percentage of the global SA wealth.
Yeah that is really
ancient stuff that is a hold over from Version
1 of the Finance sheet, something established by the previous GM before I revamped the whole thing and took over running the Finance sheet.
-Where are the description to the Hasta S and R, the Ammo 2M and 5M Ammo Mods, Sagittarius drone, Appia, Virgo, Dormus, Cenaculum and Insula?
I would suggest making a library of the equipment descriptions (if there isn't one already), I can only find their names and prices in the spreadsheet. Also, from the ones I've seen, why aren't there any pictures?
For the most part those descriptions are scattered out across multiple threads. Compiling them all into one library does sound like a good idea though. As for pictures... well it's because they are all original stuff and no one has cared to create pictures for them.
-When are you all planning on researching the Mark II? Are you waiting for Flawless Balckbox? Will it use Superalloys? A miniaturized MW/GW laser? Do we get to pick what comes standard on it?
For the most part the Mark II has being kinda left to the wayside. It is a notable investment (500RP) for little real gain, because the Legionary is already the best thing on the battlefield and while the other races are
trying to catch up we still have a heavy lead there.
Meanwhile it was recently, with that Pirate attack, pointed out that we are
incredibly vulnerable in space. Which also happened to remind people that in serious warfare (see Reaper Invasion and the likely Alliance-Batarian war in a couple years)
space combat is what decides the winners not ground warfare.
Ground warfare is certainly still important but we get far more bang for our buck by revolutionizing space combat. Especially since most the technology we are developing there is also applicable in other areas.
-Is there already rifle and handgun sized micromissile launchers? Looks like something you'd want to sell to N7 (and get into the habit of keep in our person at all times, there are people out there to kill us, anything handgun sized is pretty easy to even forget you are carrying).
I'm pretty sure they are out there. It's just something we've mostly folded under "misc production". Now that you've brought it up carrying one a pistol like that does sound like a good idea.
Also for personal production we've being working on Revy's biotics since like Jack demonstrated it's pretty hard to disarm a Biotic.
-Is there research about copying that kinetic shield linkage system the Turians got and use it one the Legionary? Possibly alongside that upgrade?
Not really. It is (presumably) patented by them so copying it would be quite illegal. Instead we've just being buying Kasa Guardian Angel shields since they are quite cheap and seems far more versatile:
Each pair of units is a high-powered shield generator that interfaces with the existing shield system. Not only does each pair add one and half time the base Legionaries' shielding ability, but the system allows for these shields to be projected. Thus the soldier equipped with the system can protect injured comrades, critical targets, or civilians. In addition it turns the soldier into mobile terrain allowing them to block choke points and prevent passage.
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