New Tech Ideas

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I had some ideas for new tech upgrades/research unlockables. Let me know what you guys think.



Repair and Refuel
Repair Camp I: +1 Repair and Refuel for all nearby ships. Build for 50 CP + 500, maint 20/turn.
Repair Camp II: +2 Repair and Refuel for all nearby ships, -20% ship maintenance. Build for 75 CP + 1000, maint 45/turn
Repair Camp III: +3 Repair and Refuel for all nearby ships, -30% ship maintenance. Build for 100CP + 2000, maint 75/turn.

Planetary Offense
Hyperspace Ground Weapons I (FDF): Defends 10 upgrade levels, damages invading ships. Damage based on defense score. Build for 40CP + 1500, maint 30/turn.
Hyperspace Ground Weapons II (FDF): Defends 15 upgrade levels, damages invading ships. Damage based on defense score. Build for 60CP + 3000, maint 40/turn.
Hyperspace Weapons III (FDF): Defends 20 upgrade levels, damages surrounding enemy ships. Damage based on defense score. Build for 100 CP + 4500, maint 70/turn.

Orbital Spice Manufacturing
Orbital Spice Hall I (Spice): Entertains 10 population, +1 Research, +1 espionage, requires 0 quality. Build for 50 CP + 700, maint 20/turn.
Orbital RST Station I: Houses 1 population, +4 Research, requires 0 quality. Build for 50 CP + 1000, maint 35/turn. Core upgrade.
Orbital Spice Hall II (Spice): Entertains 15 population, +1 Research, +1 espionage, requires 0 quality. Build for 80 CP + 1200, maint 30/turn.

Planetary Transformation
Terraforming Reactors III (Mining): Increases quality by 3, minerals by 4. Requires 0 quality. Build for 20 CP + 8000, maint 30/turn.
Terraforming Reactors IV (Mining): Increases quality by 4, minerals by 5. Requires 0 quality. Build for 30CP + 9000, maint 40/turn.

Political Structures
United Factions (political structure): decreases chance of hostile conflict by 30% while active. Consumes EP to keep active. Build for 3000ep + 5000.
*uses treaty EP to keep active. As a result, treaties cannot be passed while active.
Intergalactic Spice Summit (politics): Negotiates trade routes. Chance to create a new 'Trade Route'. 100% chance of success, cannot be blocked by other politics, cannot reinforce other politics. Cannot replace conflicts. Build for 600ep + 1900.
Military Strikes (politics): Chance to replace a conflict. Replaces a 'Trade War' or 'Trade Embargo' with a 'Trade Route. 60% chance of success. Build for 200ep + 3000.

Productive Habitation
Industrial City I (Hab): Supports 2 population, generates 2 CP, +2 Trade Points, defends 10 levels. Build for 40CP + 700, maint 45/turn.
Industrial City II (Hab): Supports 3 population, generates 3 CP, +3 Trade Points, defends 15 levels. Build for 70CP + 1100, maint 75/turn.
Industrial City III (Hab): Supports 4 population, generates 4 CP, +4 Trade Points, defends 20 levels. Build for 100CP + 1600, maint 105/turn.
Mining Base I (Hab): Supports 2 population, exploit 2 mining, 2 research, 1 espionage. Build for 40CP + 800, maint 35/turn.
Mining Base II (Hab): Supports 3 population, exploits 3 minerals, 3 research, 1 espionage. Build for 70CP + 1500, maint 55/turn.
Mining Base III (Hab): Supports 4 population, exploits 4 minerals, 4 research, 2 espionage. Build for 100CP + 2500, maint 75/turn.
Population Relocation (event): Evacuates 1 population to nearby colony. Build for 40CP + 1800. One-time event.

Experimental Construction
Exterminator Cruiser: torpedoes/multi-rocket launcher (torpedos + sensor), cladding/armored hull, crew/none, heavy reactors, +20 pts/durability.
Launcher Gordon K2 - 15-30 damage, attacks multiple targets in range, +1 attack. Build for 50 CP + 300, maint 70/turn. 1800 mass.
Launcher Starfixer Beta - 20-30 damage, attacks multiple targets in range, +1 attack. Build for 70 CP + 500, maint 90/turn. 2500 mass.
Heavy Launcher - 20-40 damage, attacks multiple targets in range, +1 attack. Build for 100 CP + 800. 3200 mass.
Infrared Seeker Launcher - 25-40 damage, attacks multiple targets in range, +2 attack. Build for 120CP + 1290, maint 160/turn. 3850 mass.
Rocket Launcher 1 - launches hyperspace rockets at multiple enemies in 3 range. Maximum targets based on sensor. Requires 12 water-fuel.
Rocket Launcher 2 - launches hyperspace rockets at multiple enemies in 3 range, +3 attack, +3 sensor. Maximum targets based on sensor. Requires 24 water-fuel.
Hypersonic Ultra Lacing (cladding): 28 armor, +2 Evade, +2 Stealth, +6 damage, +2 torpedo attack. Mass 2320.

Scouts
Trained Scouts (crew): +2 sensor. Build for 10CP + 100, maint 14/turn. Mass 100.
Explore 2: explores anomolies at 1 range. +3 sensor, burns 24 water fuel.
Trained Exo-scouts (crew): +2 sensor, +2 radiation shielding. Build for 15 CP + 200, maint 24/turn. Mass 160.
Null Void Shielding (structure): +6 radiation shielding. Build for 46 CP + 460, maint 54/turn. Mass 450.
Explore 3: explores anomalies at 1 range. +6 sensor, +2 radiation shielding, burns 32 water fuel.
Exo Fighter - torpedos/close-in defense, cladding/plating, crew/structure, fast reactors, +10 pts/durability.

Flagships
Battleship - gravity driver/kk torpedos, plating/armored hull, structure/bridge, heavy reactors, +25 pts/durability.
Heavy Fighter - light gun/close-in defense, barriers/plating, bridge/propulsion, standard reactors, +12 pts/durability.
Ultimate Duraniam Hull (hull): 45 armor. Mass 3020.
Advanced Duraniam Lacing (cladding): 29 armor, +2 Evade, +3 Stealth. Mass 1890.
Anti-gravity Barrier: 24 armor, +1 Evade.

Radiation Containment
Nuclear Frigate - nukes (torpedoes + stealth)/radiation defense, cladding/plating, structure/crew, standard reactors, +17 pts/durability.
Gamma Hyperspace Nuclear Missile (nuke): 10-20 pts damage, +10 gamma damage, +3 attack. Build for 18CP + 160, maint 40/turn. Mass 430.
Theta Hyperspace Nuclear Missile (nuke): 15-25 pts damage, +15 pts Theta damage, +4 attack. Build for 45CP + 600, maint 60/turn. Mass 900.
Neutron Hyperspace Nuclear Missile (nuke): 20-30 pts damage, +20 pts Neuron damage, +4 attack. Build for 70CP + 1100, maint 74/turn. Mass 1320.
Theta Hyperkiller Nuclear Missile (nuke): 20-40 pts damage, +20 pts Theta damage, +5 attack. Build for 90CP + 1600, maint 85/turn. Mass 1750.
Hyperion Nuclear Missile (nuke): 20-45 pts damage, +10 pts Theta Damage, +10 Neutron Damage, +6 attack. Build for 93 CP + 1940, maint 98/turn. Mass 2000.
Reinforced Shielding Generator (radiation shielding): +1 radiation shielding. Build for 10 CP + 100, maint 8/turn. Mass 70.
Super Shielding Generator (radiation shielding): +2 radiation shielding, +2 Neuron Shielding. Build for 15 CP + 200, maint 16/turn. Mass 250.
Heavy Shielding Generator (radiation defense): +3 radiation shielding, +3 Neuron Shielding, +3 Theta Shielding. Build for 20 CP + 300, maint 33/turn. Mass 600.
Ultimate Shielding Generator (radiation defense): +4 radiation shielding, +4 Neutron Shielding, +4 Theta Shielding, +2 Gamma Shielding. Build for 35 CP + 600, maint 60/turn. Mass 890.
Kladaxian Duraniam Plating (plating): 32 armor, +2 radiation shielding. Build for 154 CP + 1520, maint 191/turn. Mass 1510.

Advanced Repairs
Fueling Mechanic Decks (bridge): +30 Water-fuel, +2 Refuel. Build for 36 CP + 370. Maint 42/turn. Mass 370.
Trained Mechanics (crew): +2 Repair, +2 Refuel. Build for 16 CP + 160, maint 20/turn. 190 mass.
Repair Ship 1: Repairs fighters and cruisers by (25+ Repair) repair (all ships except carriers and heavy reactor ships). Burns 20 water-fuel.
Refuel Ship 3: Refuels non-carrier by (40+ Refuel) refuel. Burns 40 water-fuel.
Repair Fighter 3: Repairs fighter by (40+ Repairx2) repair. Burns 24 water-fuel.
Restructure Fighter 1: Repair and Refuel fighter by 20. Burns 20 water-fuel.
Reactor Efficiency System (propulsion): +3 Refuel. 160 mass.

[Cory Trese]

So many great ideas@

[Deleted]

Dec 14, 2014 3:05:17 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

So many great ideas@

Thanks. I know that there are quite a few of them

I think I spent longer making up these tech upgrade ideas than I ever did making ideas for ship upgrades and officers in STRPG. Coming up with the right Mass, CP and maint rates for each upgrade was absolutely exhausting.

[Brutus Aurelius]

Dec 14, 2014 20:17:31 GMT -5 @starfixer said:

Dec 14, 2014 3:05:17 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

So many great ideas@

Thanks. I know that there are quite a few of them

I think I spent longer making up these tech upgrade ideas than I ever did making ideas for ship upgrades and officers in STRPG. Coming up with the right Mass, CP and maint rates for each upgrade was absolutely exhausting.

How do you think the TBs feel?

[Cory Trese]

Dec 14, 2014 21:34:24 GMT -5 Brutus Aurelius said:

Dec 14, 2014 20:17:31 GMT -5 @starfixer said:

Thanks. I know that there are quite a few of them

I think I spent longer making up these tech upgrade ideas than I ever did making ideas for ship upgrades and officers in STRPG. Coming up with the right Mass, CP and maint rates for each upgrade was absolutely exhausting.

How do you think the TBs feel?

Well, I have already spent several months building equations to generate the Mass, CP, Maint and so forth. Our designer calculates the number of RP required to get a certain item which gives a good baseline for the total number of "Points" available. That way, we get some consistent balance across the game and have a good way to say "very good upgrade" or "average upgrade" allowing the system to generate outliers and standard ones.

[Brutus Aurelius]

Dec 14, 2014 22:53:17 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Dec 14, 2014 21:34:24 GMT -5 Brutus Aurelius said:

How do you think the TBs feel?

Well, I have already spent several months building equations to generate the Mass, CP, Maint and so forth. Our designer calculates the number of RP required to get a certain item which gives a good baseline for the total number of "Points" available. That way, we get some consistent balance across the game and have a good way to say "very good upgrade" or "average upgrade" allowing the system to generate outliers and standard ones.

Wow, that's pretty cool Cory.

[Cory Trese]

I really like Planetary Offense and the idea of Planetary Transformation is great. It would not be able to add Minerals, but it could provide Mining points which would make the Terraforming Reactors really great on big worlds as well.

I fed a few of the updates into the spreadsheet, and one thing I can say is that the Maintenance rates are all way low =)

The ideas in Experimental Construction are definitely on the road map. AoE attacks and Xeno with AoE will be a big game changer and keep things interesting in the late game.

The Repair and Refuel upgrade concepts in Advanced Repairs are also on the road map in various forms, some of which are similar to the suggestions here. Further specialization and advanced training (Repair 4, Refuel 4 and 5) are in the works as well.

[khamya9]

I think those are good ideas, but several give too much benefit for their cost/maintenance. Especially those productive habs are way too good. Over all, some nice ideas though, probably worth breaking out into multiple threads for more discussion.

On the extended/improved refuel, I'd love to get something that extends the range of planet refueling. But those are my favorite of your ideas.

And for big maps, some aux system for +1 (in or near the deep space exploration technologies) and +2 move (in or near the level 8 ships) would be a huge quality of life benefit.

[Deleted]

Dec 15, 2014 10:27:56 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

I really like Planetary Offense and the idea of Planetary Transformation is great. It would not be able to add Minerals, but it could provide Mining points which would make the Terraforming Reactors really great on big worlds as well.

I fed a few of the updates into the spreadsheet, and one thing I can say is that the Maintenance rates are all way low =)

The ideas in Experimental Construction are definitely on the road map. AoE attacks and Xeno with AoE will be a big game changer and keep things interesting in the late game.

The Repair and Refuel upgrade concepts in Advanced Repairs are also on the road map in various forms, some of which are similar to the suggestions here. Further specialization and advanced training (Repair 4, Refuel 4 and 5) are in the works as well.

The maintenance rates were solely based on other upgrades. For example, I based the maintenance upgrades of industrial cities and mining bases on starports and palaces, because those upgrades were also multi-bonus. Nukes and multi-rocket launcher costs were based on torpedos. Planetary offense upgrades were based on FDF upgrades, and maint costs were particularly low because one needs lots of expenaive FDF upgrades to provide lots of defense and really make use of ground weapons. However, as many of these upgrades were completely original, it was hard to predict the exact maintenance costs.

I'm glad you like planetary offense and transformation, and that many of these upgrades are already in the works. Planetary offense was something requested by many players, and turning your own planets into weapons would add a new component to military strength. Even though many of these ideas are already in the works, I hope at least some of these ideas are new enough that they could help you with coming up with future tech upgrades.

[Deleted]

Yeah you guys were right in that the maint costs for a lot of the upgrades were too small. I went back and increased the maint cost of most of the upgrades to a more balanced level. Thanks.

[AA]

Yes turning planets into weapons! I love turning planets into weapons!

[Cory Trese]

Our design engine takes into account the cost and CP cost, as well as the projected nominal income from the upgrade points (fully utilized) and projects a profit and turns required to break even on the upgrade. We also do a similar set of calculations for the results of an upgrade from the previous level.

This way, we can control the overall balance of them game through upgrade design.