Ophiuchus wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 9:09 pm
I do not have the time to analyse, so I do not have objections. I just found your analysis to be incomplete.
My current playtesting (just 2 games against AI and one 1v1 versus ThinkSome) makes me think the proposed PR (i.e. without improments for Exobots, that could come in a follow up PR) is good to merge.
It certainly changes a bit the progression of production output, in that it allows to get sooner certain planets that would otherwise take some 10-20 more turns (as commented in the PR), but it also makes it less productive (but not -63% production, way less than that if you conside Adaptive Automation).
What I see is that this PR, along with PR2915, is not enough to ensure more balanced starting positions. In my game against ThinkSome (he Chato, I random-Etty), I had no good planets (period, not even one), and no planets on my HW. He got both good planets and planets in his HW. By turn 75 he tripled my PP, had 50% more colonies (and 100% more planets). And the Exobots available early for me were not enough to stop the snowballing.
Also Chato OP.