Re: Another Galaxy Suggestion From: jduffin@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Joshua Duffin) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:25:01 +0000 M22367@mwvm.mitre.org writes: >Howbout making the increase in technology more expensive the higher you go? >Right now it's a linear growth - it costs the same to get from TL 1 to TL 2 >as it does to go from TL 7 to TL 8. Wouldn't it be possible to make this a e? >curve? > >Thus: >Cost Level >---- ----- >5000 2 >5100 3 >5250 4 >5450 5 >5700 6 >6000 7 >etcetera ad nauseum... Well, it'd make a little sense to reverse that, actually. Technology is an increasing, not decreasing, spiral. But besides that, making it _more_ expensive to buy higher technology is somewhat silly since benefits from improved technology already decline the higher you go. For example, if you increase drive tech from 1.0 to 2.0, you can spend half as many points on drive and have your ships go the same speed. From 2.0 to 3.0, though, you only get an additional 1/6 of total mass saved, reducing amount necessary to one-third. From 3.0 to 4.0, you only save an additional 1/12 of total mass, and so on, and so on. Yes, it makes it possible to have your ships get going really, really fast with this, but the benefits are already on a decreasing scale. UUCP: {crash, kksys}!orbit!pnet51!jduffin | Life is complex. It's made ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!jduffin@nosc.mil | up of real and imaginary INET: jduffin@pnet51.orb.mn.org | parts. Up