let's discuss the spawning duration for the chrono pods

[spacetrace]

as you read: you can have one chrono-mine that spawns every 3 days a pod.

we thought : they should be rare. What do you think?

pls. make a balanced decision and tell us why!

[Senor]

i voted 2 days.

Before i thought 3 is fine, but then again having 1 pod per 3 days is not that much.
i think really its something that we will be able to decide after like 1 era of testing.

[admin]

on the other hand: an alliance with 10 players would have 10 chrono pods every few days, that's not so rare anymore

[muabdib]

Is a pod 'burned' no matter the distance? in that case, i think it should be spawned more often, maybe 12h/1day.
Now it is already done, but on my opinion, the chrono mines should be more important. A key colony, that would need a strong defence, a target for enemies, who would look for these mining colonies to destroy the source of pods. In order to make these colonies so important maybe several days to complete the mine would work, or maybe having the possibility to raise the 'level' of a mine, taking a week for each level, and improving the spawning time of pods...
I know it is important the balance of the game, but i don't get the point of waiting for 2 days to get something that would save ur fleet 5-7 h of trip.

Well, those are only ideas, and as i always say... most of them are crap hehe

Anyway, i like all this chrono stuff, so no matter what, it is a improvement to the game. Nice work!!

[spacetrace]

we leave it with the 3 days this era and test how it "feels".

a 3 day duration means : about 30 pods for each player each era.

it could be the right number.

[spacetrace]

[spacetrace]

i tryed to overthink it:

a mine is maybe 4 to 8 hours away, lets say 6 hours.

so i pay 12 hours of time

this is about time managment. i think its only worthy to collect 2 pods, else i would pay 12 hours to save 12 hours.

i guess 1,5 days would be ok, so i wait 3 days collect 2 pods. then it it's worthy.

[Senor]

one question.

I haven't had the pleasure of using a pod yet so i was wondering if using one pod gives double speed for one fleet or all 3 fleets?

If its just for one fleet then with the current "spawning time" of pods it really sucks for pirate players who would have to wait until they have 2-3 pods to get one fast surge with their whole armada (i assume any rational thinking tactical player keeps his or her fleets flying together)

if i'm correct and the pod boosts just 1 fleet then i suggest much shorter spawn time for chrono pods. like 1 per day.

[spacetrace]

it's only for one fleet...

yes we need to shorten the spawn time

how about 36 hours first?

[Senor]

another idea...

what if using a chrono pod would boost up all of your fleets that are in the same sector.
then you could still keep the pods rare and people who want to fly their fleets together would be ok too.

it could even be put in the ship description- chrono pod explodes and sends out a wave of chrono energy that temporarily enhances the flightspeed of all of your fleets in the sector.

[spacetrace]

i think that feature is not needed , because it is pretty easy to let your fleets have a synced jump ! just activate the chronoboost flag and press modify

they will be in sync then.

with rarity is not the absolute number of pods meant - more ... there shouldn't be the posibility to use the chronoboost all the time...

have fun

[vyor]

more colonies=more pods more pods=more pirating