Re: Facility balance
That sounds like it could work out really good, what are your thoughts on future Beta vs Gamma balancing? I don't have a Gamma production going on right now since CIR (and by extension, our alliance) produces and has been producing everything on Beta for years. If memory serves, a full T3 Gamma facility was in the area of 335 pts? Correct me if I'm wrong please.
It does also sound like extensions won't be much of a factor though, once relation and station levels are considered, how are you looking at max-extension producer vs mid-tier producer efficiency wise?
T3 facilities have 125 base points and T3 upgrades add 50 each, but I'm not sure now how many you can connect to one. Anyway, it can go high.
So extensions (or relations for that matter) didn't do that much so far either in such a facility because the higher you go, the less each additional point will help in the end. With this change we would simply bring betas a bit closer to gammas (and further from alphas), but for those who want to squeeze every bit of efficiency out of their production processes, gammas will be still the best choice. It's about normalizing stuff, basically, putting beta really between alpha and gamma, instead of beta just being somewhat better than alpha while gamma is way up above all.
But as I already said, it is true that the beta boost will be only significant for those with low relations or extensions. Maxed out characters will still see an increase but it might be very small.