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Post by Eaon's admin account on Dec 7, 2009 22:19:31 GMT -7
Well pretty straight forward at the cost of being able to make units, can a Droid Factory also create Ships for cheaper. Logic would say yes, however as with everything else on the board it comes down to the popular opinion of our RPers.
Yes there would be some kind of weakness with the ships that did this, perhaps they'd be a little weaker due to the haste they were made in. No they wouldn't become insanely cheap though, we would find away to balance it out.
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Post by Draque on Dec 7, 2009 22:27:15 GMT -7
Well, you could cut the price by 50%-75% but they wouldn't necessarily have to be weaker than the ones you buy. On the contrary, they would serve your cause more because you would be the ones making them in your own image. I suggest if you build ships of your own you should give them your own specs. But you would have to be fair and even it out. You can't make a super-fast, impenetrable capital ship of absolute power. First of all the price should depend on it's armaments and equipments. A ship with an ion Cannon would cost more to build because you'd have to invest in buying or creating said Ion cannon. Or if it had shields. What I'm saying is, the bare ship would be OK to make for cheap but the credits invested should go up by weapons and equipment. And of course the equipment and weapons would vary in quality.
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Post by Oege on Dec 7, 2009 22:33:52 GMT -7
I like this Idea! Draque has a really good point. One thing i think should be added though is that you can basically build the ship with minimal weapons and slowly add on weapons once you get the money. The downside to that would it would cost more to add weapons post production due to the special modifications that would be needed for those said weapons. So maybe like 10% of the cost of the weapon would be added for post-production add ons.
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Post by Draque on Dec 7, 2009 22:41:19 GMT -7
Yeah exactly. So if someone needed a ship right away they'd build it for cheaper but they'd sacrifice it's operational capacity if they left out other features like shields or heavy weapons. It'd be cheap but it would be weak and vulnerable to more expensive ships. You'd get your "Custom Ships" and it would have a system that is fair.
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Post by Oege on Dec 7, 2009 22:44:40 GMT -7
Yep i put my vote as yes, but thats only if Draque's great idea was added in, and mine to please  |
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Post by Eaon's admin account on Dec 7, 2009 22:46:21 GMT -7
I can agree with you both on the Custom Ships thing as it makes perfect sense and every Star Wars Army did that. However I would also like to point out though any and all droids made at first or Factories would still be pre-programed for their old specs. So I think we need to come to a decision here, on how we look at this do we want the old specs to still be usable and discounted, or usable and not discounted. Your call boys.
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Post by Draque on Dec 7, 2009 22:52:25 GMT -7
I say we discard the old droids and just let everyone custom make their own droids. When they have a prototype they can have the administrators look at it and the specs and decide if it is overpowered and if it requires the maker to lower it's capabilities a bit. Then again people might have trouble with this so you could still leave the old specs for members desiring an old and cheap way of making the droids. If you make your own it might go either way, cheap or expensive because-as you said-it depends on it's armaments and specs.
So they could make their own with their own pics or they can build the same old droids form the films.
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Post by Oege on Dec 7, 2009 22:53:46 GMT -7
I wouldnt say old droid and or ship specs should cost more money since you already have the blue prints and designs. I think developign new technology, ships, and droids should cost extra at first for the initial research cost and maybe a little extra depending on the resources that are needed to make them.
EXAMPLE: normal tan battle droids cost less than super battle droid because super battle droids have upgraded weapons and armor.
also on this issue should be somehting to do with Kamino's cloning factory to equall out the fact that a droid factory can do all of this.
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Post by Eaon on Dec 7, 2009 23:24:17 GMT -7
Consider it done, I'm giving Coruscant the Ability to Create Clones (and ships as well once we come to an agreement on this) so that it equals out. Clones like with the droids because the emprie owns both cloning facilities will now have their price cut by 25% as long as they hold both cloning centers.
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Post by furionqeurel on Dec 18, 2009 5:53:42 GMT -7
It would make perfect sense to try develop a factory to produce droids into one that can produce ships, perhaps if one pays an "upgrade cost" to increase the scale of production? I mean, a droid factory would have all the equipment it would need to produce the components for a ship, all it would need are increased storage facilities/a hanger and a bigger assembly line.
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Post by Sephiroth The One Winged on Dec 18, 2009 13:49:26 GMT -7
I agree with this...not much to say is there...*coughs*
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Post by Eaon's admin account on Dec 20, 2009 19:40:24 GMT -7
It would make perfect sense to try develop a factory to produce droids into one that can produce ships, perhaps if one pays an "upgrade cost" to increase the scale of production? I mean, a droid factory would have all the equipment it would need to produce the components for a ship, all it would need are increased storage facilities/a hanger and a bigger assembly line. Well considering the majority voted yes, all Factories from this point on can now at the small cost of 200,000 Credits produce Capital Ships at 25% the normal cost. |
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