0009916: Energy Lance turret using extra energy for damage

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0009916	AI War 1 / Classic	Suggestion - New Unit Ideas - Turrets and Defenses		Nov 16, 2012 4:34 pm	Nov 16, 2012 5:44 pm

Reporter	Hearteater	Assigned To
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	6.006

Summary	0009916: Energy Lance turret using extra energy for damage
Description	This "turret" is really more of a Fortress (unlock with K), but all that mass is devoted to firing its massive energy lance. This lance is powerful, but its attack damage scales with the amount of extra energy you have available. Never more will you complain about having an extra 1 million energy. Could also be a module for Mod forts, but it would need to be much weaker.
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contingencyplan Nov 16, 2012 5:10 pm reporter ~0028987	I could see this being an interesting mechanic, though it would likely be completely broken on multi-hw games (16 HW = ~40M energy, iirc). A more general idea (though possibly very hard to implement --- I recall seeing something about energy costs being fixed) would be the ability to have a slider in the controls for "defense multiplier" or something that multiplies the attack power of (some) turrets but at a semi-exponential multiplication in energy cost --- e.g., doubling the attack power would quadruple the energy cost of a turret, 10x would require 100x the energy cost, etc. Maybe this could be folded into a support structure with a per-planet cap, similar to mod-forts?

Lancefighter Nov 16, 2012 5:44 pm reporter ~0028988	I feel like this doesnt actually answer the very real problem - People simply have too much energy. It just makes people complain about having too much energy less.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Nov 16, 2012 4:34 pm	Hearteater	New Issue
Nov 16, 2012 5:05 pm	KDR_11k	Relationship added	related to 0009572
Nov 16, 2012 5:10 pm	contingencyplan	Note Added: 0028987
Nov 16, 2012 5:44 pm	Lancefighter	Note Added: 0028988