Summary / Title

Vodyani - Ark Consumption (Either Broken or Exploitable)


Description

Ark Consumption food malus increments at -0.3 every turn (on normal speed) Turn 1 it starts at -11.9
This continues to grow until you undock and redock your ark (a free action that doesnt hurt your economy in any way)
When you redock it resets it back to -11.9 Ark Consumption (or whatever baseline is; it's based on vodyani pop with that ark)
I continued to monitor this for several turns until I used a Holy Proliferation where Ark Consumption jumps up a bit. After using Holy Proliferation, the behavior remains the same, other than the -11.9 Ark Consumption baseline jumped to -28.2. It then proceed to increment -0.3


Steps to Reproduce

Play any Vodyani game and observe your food production on a system turn by turn.

Undock and redock on the same turn and it resets it to the baseline.


Expected Behavior

I dont understand why this continues to grow. The Gargantuan Population makes sense, (-50% food), Ark Consumption is just another hit that nickels and dimes your food unless you undock and redock from time to time. Two thing I would expect:

1. The Ark Consumption continues to grow and is something we have to deal with. There would be no reset to baseline if we undock and redock in the same system; maybe 1 turn must pass.

2. Ark Consumption is just a flat malus and only grows based on Vodyani pop growth.


Version

1.5.3


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