Economy 1 - Production, Investment, Creeping

[DouglasOrr]

Some sort of economy system, details TBC.

Perhaps:

• Slider to control "spending vs investment"
• "Creeping" on the map to gain "bonuses"
• More spending = faster rate of production

[DouglasOrr]

An initial design:

• Start with income 1 j/s
• Ships always cost C j
• Income is split between production and investment. User chooses P% for production, investment is then (100-P)%.
• Production spending fills up a "production account", when it contains enough to produce a ship, it is spawned. If a production hold is on, ships do not spawn until it is lifted.
• Investment is put into a queue, so that at time t+D it pays off. When an investment pays off, it increases income by moving along an investment efficiency curve E : j => j/s.
• Destroying a neutral unit gives you a bounty of, B j.
• Neutral units respawn in groups with an interarrival distribution A after the last one is destroyed.