Strategic resources: more equals ??

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Master-Alaethyr

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Master-Alaethyr

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Aug 12, 2012, 7:45:50 PM

Greetings all,

what is the point of having more than 1 (or 4 for the bonus) of a strategic resource? I mean besides for trading.

In civ5 for instance, if I have 9 iron, I can only build 9 of say longsword men, and to build more, I would need more sources of iron, but in endless space;

1) if I have only 1 of a certain strategic resource that is used for a certain weapon module (say missile alpha) I can still add as many of said module into my ship design (say 10x missile alpha).

2) I can also build as many ships containing the 10x missile modules as I please

3) I can also use the same resource for a support module, and repeat the same 2 points above, in fact I can design a ship that uses both the weapon and support module that requires the same resource, and build as many ships as I want of this design.

Any clarification would be great, thanks.

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Aug 12, 2012, 9:33:09 PM

If you get a monopoly of strategic resources, the cost of any modules or ships that require that resource gets discounted. I'm not sure by how much, though.

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Aug 13, 2012, 12:59:42 AM

there are passive effects to each resource, like say +1% industry per Titanium-70 or something like that. So if you have 9 Titanium-70, it's +9%, in addition to whatever bonuses you get for having 4 or more.

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Aug 13, 2012, 1:02:30 AM

Their bonus to the hosting planet is a useful addition for any system, but denying them from your opponents is always a good benefit.

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Aug 13, 2012, 4:28:53 AM

With only one resource, you would get a 10% discount on modules using that resource (assuming it's a strategic resource, not a luxury one).

With two, you would get a 20% discount.

With three, a 30% discount.

Finally, four or more (a monopoly) gets you a 60% discount which in my opinion is quite worth it.

Luxury resources are quite different, so you can just go to the Endless Space wiki page for them where there is a graph near the bottom showing each resource and how it's numbers affect its bonuses: http://endlessspace.wikia.com/wiki/Luxury_resources

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Aug 14, 2012, 5:08:03 PM

Thanks to everyone :3

Harel55 wrote:
With only one resource, you would get a 10% discount on modules using that resource (assuming it's a strategic resource, not a luxury one).

With two, you would get a 20% discount.

With three, a 30% discount.

Finally, four or more (a monopoly) gets you a 60% discount which in my opinion is quite worth it.

Luxury resources are quite different, so you can just go to the Endless Space wiki page for them where there is a graph near the bottom showing each resource and how it's numbers affect its bonuses: http://endlessspace.wikia.com/wiki/Luxury_resources

Oh that clears it up nicely thanks, but one more question, if titanium-70 gives +1 production per pop on a planet, if the planet has 3 titanium, is it +3 production per pop on the planet?

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Aug 15, 2012, 7:17:32 AM

Planet bonuses are the same regardless of the deposit size.

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Aug 18, 2012, 12:19:14 AM

Evil4Zerggin wrote:
Planet bonuses are the same regardless of the deposit size.

Indeed, but I do believe they are population tied.

I feel that this is a good thing at preventing such words from becoming too powerful from having them.

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Aug 18, 2012, 7:01:41 AM

They are a bonus per population on that planet (like base planet yields and anomalies), yes. Per population and per deposit size would be too much--otherwise a UE rich Quadrinix deposit could reach +12 Industry and Science per population! Though I suppose at max tech luxuries can reach up to +16 total FIDS per population already, which is also pretty high.

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