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Re: Reduce portal construction times

For 1 round, reduce the base time from 40 ticks to 30. if it looks good, can even try 20 the next round.

Reasoning behind this is that portals take way too long build and that makes it very hard to get into new systems and areas to set up on families. This is highly demotivating for aggressors and anti-conflict. If portals were built quicker, new bases would spring up here and there causing more focus to be shifted to the military aspects of the game and take away from the imperial-infraing going on these days.

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Re: Reduce portal construction times

i like the idea of this being a galaxy setting.  can you imagine 1 tick portals in a HC galaxy?  that would certainly shake things up

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1 tick portals, then you could as well add portal on taking planet as a setting. (all planets that have an owner have portal) HC indiddy.

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Re: Reduce portal construction times

I think 1 tick Abit too much. Imaging u go to bed, checked your systems.... all cores clear. 2 hours Into your sleep someone's expod into all your systems and your dead smile lol

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Re: Reduce portal construction times

hardcore tongue

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Too hardcore lol rounds would last 3 days lol

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i for sure wouldn't last that long ;-)

Another angle might planets being owned start portalling instant, adn then a preset time 5, 10 , 15 , dunno ticks

also very HC. And only for the more active kind. But sounds fun for if you are .

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Yeah I think no fee to portal and a generic x amount of ticks until it is. That way you can spread attack and not hurt infra too much by having to pay for portals smile

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Re: Reduce portal construction times

Well, decreasing the portal construction time makes sense since all the infra building times were decreased lately (except RCs I guess?)

In proportion to the recent changes I think 35 tics would match it, maybe some less, but no less than 30 tics, that'd ruin all the purpose of researching construction and a big advantage for HC attackers vs slow bankers, I mean, there's a line we cannot cross or the game engine would turn unbalanced.

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uhu Render,

But we could think about what it would do, no ?

Too short wouldn't be any good as it would unbalance things idd. But a bit shorter might have a positive effect on gameplay.

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