Well, it is worth considering, especially if we can write it off from tax. Of course it requires the would-be migrants to
We basically did this already. That's what the "Hyper-modularity Support" option in the "Winds" and "Rain" updates were all about: we open-sourced the connectivity specs of our hyper-modularity research to allow anyone to build what amount to industrial-grade legos. Notably we have not open-sourced our MatSci, nor the slow-morphing buildings aspect of Hyper-modularity, so mix-and-match starships are still out of reach for anyone but us, but the building side? Open to all.
We could possibly do this, but right now we have more important things to do than charity work. Our big projects for the rest of the year:
About project Earthfall, it might be a good thing to keep in mind that (at a guess) 10-20% of those 1000 cities will have problems that makes them unsuitable for such a setup of factories. A lack of relevant workforce, political and/or societal instability, rampant corruption, criminal organizations, weird laws, the government there is known for ignoring private ownership rights if and when they feel like it, delays in zoning and getting things started that never really stops due to incompetence and any number of the problems above, etc etc etc. Still, 80% is good enough. If someone wants to say no, that's not really a big problem. Expand a bit more in the reasonable countries instead.
This is a very good point. In fact, given the possibility of such problems I think what we'd want to do is take a quarter and spend, say, 5.5 billion (1 million per city/municipality, plus another 1 billion globally) and hire an army of legal teams to look up local laws and determine which ones will be impossible for us to expand to. In the meantime, we can publicly publish our list of "Paragon Industries Project Earthfall Landing Sites" with some sort of heatmap showing which sites we will have problems with, and why, and let grassroots support do much of the advocacy heavy lifting for us.
You know, I think I might be having a bit of "not invented here" syndrome, but it never even occurred to me to have so many of our components not be our own stuff. I mean, the Guardian Angel system just made sense, since it was a shield boost that stacked with our own Warp Barriers, but these?
This is another good idea. You think we have time to add more clauses to the vote? My general philosophy is to keep adding junk until the QM says the vote is closed, but given that this is supposed to be a special event I'm not sure if @Hoyr will appreciate it.
It does not. You're still voting for the Loadout plan.
Cool, thanks.
Several problems here.
I'm not even sure we can get an omni-blade; that's 2185-era tech, and created in direct response to having to fight Reaper Husks hand-to-hand. Mordin's omni-tool upgrade will probably let us make omni-blades, among other things, but for now the flash-forger probably isn't good enough for that.
| Hull |
1,718.61
|
| Primary Weapon |
12,756.48
|
| Secondary Weapon I |
13,498.92
|
| Secondary Weapon II |
13,498.92
|
| Propulsion System |
3,000.00
|
| FTL Drive |
4,075.01
|
| Shield |
5,062.10
|
| Armor |
27.34
|
| Reactors |
421.81
|
| GARDIANs |
2,227.32
|
| Misc |
6,249.50
|
Codex: Omni-Tool Weapons said:
Eh, they were probably used more than you think. Just not for combat. For a real life example, bayonets are still commonly issued to modern soldiers because knives can be really useful for utility purposes.
Okay, that works. Vote thus amended.I was hoping to not need to do this, but I feel that we're going to have to put into place some rules about production rate per item if this keeps up. Pooling production and its generalization is a magic abstraction, and as with any abstraction if you get to close you notice holes and it'll leak some times. I mean good job on clever thinking, but one day some one is going to notice that you can magic a frigate into play in less than a day with three factory IIIs... yeah no... just no, not with out some tech-teching first, then I'll let you get away with bullshit like that. Note that a single fabricator bay (the prototyping factory) only add to the the production on a single item at a rate of 1 per three days. And what is a Factory I if not ten or so of those? Yes there are factors like the ability to produce parts separately and then assemble them, but non-parallelizable work is a thing. I probably should have said something with the last vote most of the stuff in the first 24 hours was small or something I can see getting done in a day, the rest maybe..
...man now I'm gong to have to go though and institute minimum time to build aren't I...
Anyway I'll just pop the last part off if you're not around. Have fun!
