Also note that the main reason for "Stockpile Use Limit" is that it is short enough to fit nicely into the production panel (and where we call it "Use Limit" - only eight characters). Most longer variants would not fit (e.g. I think "Withdrawal Limit" is too long) and we would have to use the less significant "Limit" in that panel.
Oberlus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:34 am The primary purpose of stockpile is to share some PP among supply groups, the secondary is to save some PP for later. "Some": an amount depending mostly on the stockpiling trait of the empire's population and also on the stockpiling techs and the share of planets set to that focus; will be small compared to the needs of a single common production item unless majority of population is good/great stockpilers or many stockpiling techs are researched and some planets are set to that focus...
The "Stockpile" meter on each planet should be called sth else, because it refers to the amount of stockpile extraction that this planet contributes to the imperial stockpile extraction limit, i.e. how much PP can be extracted from stockpile each turn (for one or more disconnected production projects).
It is counterintuitive that one planet focused to stockpile, with no local production (or just the focus-independent bonuses), is helping a far away planet to build its stuff. It's in fact focused to help (others) extraction.
Also hard to explain where is that stockpile storaged while not in use, how is it transported to where it is needed, and why can't you use it faster when used in the same place that generated/stockpiled it.
Currently we have a "Stockpiling" focus, which increases planet's meter "Stockpiling"/capacity, the global use limit would be "Imperial Smuggling Limit", the imperial stockpile would be the "Imperial Stash" into which you transfer production points and which you smuggle to the use site. You can disallow usage for a build item by "Disable drawing from Imperial Stockpile for this item".
E.g.
we could have a "Smuggling" focus, which increases planet's meter "Smuggling Capacity", the global use limit would be "Imperial Smuggling Limit", the imperial stockpile would be the "Imperial Stash" into which you transfer production points and which you smuggle to the use site. You can disallow usage for a build item by "Disallow Smuggling".
Geoff likes "Withdrawal Limit" instead of "Use Limit" for the meter. There should be a fitting focus name for that.Ophiuchus wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:37 amHow about some renaming? I can think of an improvement: things which increase the use limit enhance stockpile distribution:
In Top Panel:
Top Panel Headline: Imperial Stockpile --> Imperial Stockpile Service
Prod queue assignments label: Stockpile Use
Empire use meter label: Stockpile Use Limit
(Predicted) Empire meter label: (Next turn) Stockpile
Sidepanel:
Planet (Max) Meter Label: Stockpile --> (Max) Stockpile Distribution
Focus Label: Focus: Stockpile --> Stockpile Distribution
SPECIES XXX_Effect Label: SPECIES XXX Stockpiling --> SPECIES XXX Stockpile Distribution
Production Queue:
Empire meter label: Stockpiled Points
Empire use meter label:: Maximum Use
Prod queue assignments label: Stockpile Use
Encyclopedia:
Empire use meter label: Stockpile
Tech Predictive Stockpiling
Tech Generic Supplies
Tech Interstellar Entanglement Factory
Building Interstellar Entanglement Center
Tech Transcendent Design
Building Species InterDesign Academy
Tech Void Prediction
levels of stockpiling abilities -> levels of stockpile distribution abilitie
Also "Remote Production Focus" (?Remote Limit?), "Stockpile Distribution Focus" (?Distribution Limit?).
Maybe only change focus name and keep the Use Limit name or maybe get rid of the limit part e.g. "Distribution" could suffice?