New Building: Debris Field Detector

#1
(as a continue/improvement to the idea of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8213)

Characteristics:
-Can be built on planets (Not moons)
-Can be built early on (Poor reuirements in tech but 1 extra than recyclers)
-Operation Costs: Perhaps 1 ruby + (100* (1.5^lvl) Deut per scan
-Works on a radius like Phalanx. At lvl 1, 30 systems away, lvl 2 60, lvl 3 90 etc, open for discussion. Example: If your planet is at 1:100:3, at lvl 1 it will scan from 1:70:3 to 1:130:3 ( a total of 60 systems).
-Galaxy limit, only able to scan within the galaxy where it has been built.
-Cost to build at lvl 1: 20 000 metal, 10 000 crystal, 3000 deuterium (like 2 recyclers - perhaps it can also include a ruby cost. If it includes a ruby cost, then it will not cosr any rubies to operate)
-Regarding its role, it is just making one feature of the game easy. It is already possible to scan manually the galaxy. We add a building for this which will also cost rubies to fund the game.

Open for discussion.

Re: New Building: Debris Field Detector

#5
I don't like this idea. As fishpond already said in the previous thread, it's just a lazy way of finding DF that isn't yours.
It's not that i don't think players should steal DF from others, but i think they should at least earn it like the guy who did the fleet crash. And the ruby part is also rather unfair IMO.
if yer gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough

Re: New Building: Debris Field Detector

#9
Was going to stick this as an Edit but bit long for that.
On further thinking..If it were to be implemented only fair these detectors should identify which planet it was returned to.I suppose if your picking up your DF handy it should never affect/effect (?) you there's always that,it's just the odd occasion when because of whatever your caught short, or am i missing something 8)...probably.
I suppose early on in the game beginners might find the little bits lying about worth it but not for long and theres always loads of it lying about so I don't think many bother with it anyway .People would have to make sure they have enough recs and most with the bigger fleets already do I would imagine,so even if it does come in it's not going to radically change anything so not that big a deal and "if" they can get ppl spending rubes, then that's got to be good for the game . So I suppose I'm retracting my -1 As I'm more of a 0.
Its evening here and i'm more "relaxed" now so different perspective.8)
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