Weapon repair costs

[Sol]

So, weapon repair costs are not at all based on how much it costs to actually buy them. It's based loosely on some constants.
Should it be based around the purchase costs?

For example, turning it into an equation like:

Cost to repair = Number of weps * buy cost * (1 - current power/Max power)*0.5

So for 500 mill of the best stock weps @ half power:

500 mill *3,500,800* (1 - 1280/2560)*0.5 = 437 trill

So if you save your weps before they explode you can 'save them' for half the price of buying completely new weps.

For a typical attack, it's about a decrease of 4% in weapon strength or a cost of 27 trill (currently only 151 bill dmu).

[Moriarty]

[Sol]

4 no's, but no reasoning?

[Clockwork]

It's probably a 'hands off my DMU' response

Current standard weapons prices are totally insignificant, the price of the advanced demi based weapons might be interesting with this change.

Increasing the costs might make onliners a bit more tactical, as it is now, a single farm hit one some random inactive is usually enough DMU to let you repair everything. With your proposed change, that would no longer be the case.

Back when you increased the cost of CS shields / weps, I don't remember many people saying it was a good idea, but it has promoted more people CS massing, as it now has a reasonable 'cost' for the defender. This change might also promote sabbing away weps.

[reborn]

Im either way but more in the way of no and this is my reason.

The cost of massing is already enough for the cost of turns roughtly about 500 turns. Now if u factor in u will have to farm as well on top this could lead to lets say 100 more turns

Now 100 more aint much but it all adds up most of all when turns are like gold dust.

That's just one target when ppl go to say mass they do maybe 3-4 ppl and leave themselves enough left over to farm.

Now if its 600 that's then going to lower the amount of ppl being massed, this is a war game after all and seems want to lead it into a stat building game.

If turns wasn't so rare or like main were u can trade turns then sure raise it to insane prices, but its not so as I said turns are rare and just means less and less massing.

There aint much massing anyway really because turns are so rare.

As for clock post about ppl sabbing ppl defences , I think not the ratios are rather low anyway, only reason ppl mass to sabbing is to kill planets, if going to sab it would b to remove a lot of weapons.

Sabbing 40 mil weapons for 10 turns 140 tris worth just aint going to happen

[Sol]

With your proposed change, that would no longer be the case.

My proposition is an example . I wouldn't care much if the prices stay approximately the same, but whether or not to base them on repair costs is up for debate. What the formula is can be argued over later .

So the current cost is:

Maximum of EITHER: (1000/(max wep power) OR 1, +5)* by how many weapons * difference in max to current strength.

For example:

Worst attack weps @ 100 mill weps, with 4% damage, i.e. 15->14:

Max of 1000/10 or 1 -> 100 +5 = 105*100,000,000*(15-14) = 10,500,000,000 dmu

Best stock attack weps @ 100 mill weps, with 4% damage, i.e. 2560->2458:

Max of 1000/2560 or 1 -> 1 + 5 = 6*100,000,000*(2560-2458) = 62,000,000,000 dmu

So at worst for those big weps (if you JUST save them before they explode), it will set you back a whopping 1,535,400,000,000 dmu, buying them costs 350,080,000,000,000 dmu. So about .4% of the total cost.

[fredrabbit]

I said no because if you don't repair and let all of your weapons get destroyed you should have to pay more to replace them. If you wanted to make it so at max damage it cost 75% to fully repair and scale the cost for repairs from their i would be fine with that.