Topic: CT degradation and the CT gamma mash up
Production lines in the factory will now degrade linearly, and they will be cleared when they reach 0. Degradation is 0.3 points per cycle for ammunition and charges, 1 for modules, 3 for robots, 5 for most of the MPC buildings, 10 for reactors and 20 for main terminals and facilities.
I did some testing of the CT combination facility on the test server, and the compression ratio as expected is not 1:1.
Will it ever be worth using the combination facility?
For modules, no, it won't. If you combine a 10 pt CT with a 50 pt, at best you'll get a 58 pt. So, in the combination you actually LOSE (2) cycles. With resonable skills, the cost of making another CT is greater then the material savings you'll get from 8 pts; same for ammo.
For robots, its possible to end on say, 1 or 2 pts. In this case, the CT itself has no value, but you'll need to combine at least (3) Ct's together to get something worthwhile.
As the modulus gets bigger, combining probably makes more sense, but this really means that the CT combination factilty is usefull as Gamma ONLY tool.
