Patents provide a means for technological progression, in a concrete way.
Their data needs to be adjusted as there are some patents that consume a large amount of materials, mainly because they were copied en masse from the corresponding manufacturing processes.
Progression gating can be imposed by the amount of time each patent takes to develop. All are presently at 5min or so. That was mainly to enable existing players to get up to speed quickly, when the patent system was introduced. The times should vary. The first wave of patents, those needed to get a spacecraft into space, should be quick and easy to develop. After that, they should take a while.
At present it takes what, 45 minutes or so to develop a patent for a warp 9 FTL drive? Perhaps that should take a lot longer.
The building Q system was generally agreed to be bad. It's gone now. We will see if a replacement is needed.
Their data needs to be adjusted as there are some patents that consume a large amount of materials, mainly because they were copied en masse from the corresponding manufacturing processes.
Progression gating can be imposed by the amount of time each patent takes to develop. All are presently at 5min or so. That was mainly to enable existing players to get up to speed quickly, when the patent system was introduced. The times should vary. The first wave of patents, those needed to get a spacecraft into space, should be quick and easy to develop. After that, they should take a while.
At present it takes what, 45 minutes or so to develop a patent for a warp 9 FTL drive? Perhaps that should take a lot longer.
The building Q system was generally agreed to be bad. It's gone now. We will see if a replacement is needed.