please fix the Master Shipyard labor description, its wrong...

[Pandelume]

Currently the description for the Master Shipyard is this:


"This structure decreases the labor used in recipes by a factor of 0.2."


Now, in the queen's english, this would indicate that you get a 20% reduction, i.e. you use 80% of the labor of a regular large shipyard.

However, it actually USES 20% of the labor of a regular shipyard. so, instead of using 24 hours for a Conquistador, it takes 4.8 hours.



In this case, your description should read:

. . . . "This structure decreases the labor used in recipes by a factor of 0.8."

or simply

. . . . "This structure uses only 20% of the labor used in recipes"





unless, of course, the tooltip is right and the master shipyards are just bugged and use much less labor than intended...


which is it?

[kazamx]

Yup, I always found this a little confusing

[ArmEagle]

Don't forget to mention all advanced structures, which 'decreases the labor used in recipes by a factor of 0.8'. I really blinked my eyes a couple of times when I saw that .

[Xaphod]

just replace "by" with "to".

[ArmEagle]

Originally Posted by Xaphod just replace "by" with "to".

Yeah, I could have added that myself . It's only 5 bitflips!

[Scooder]

I would also say that (IMO) the game shouldn't use silly wordings like 'by a factor of 0.2'. I think changing all text from:
"This structure decreases the labor used in recipes by a factor of 0.2."
to...
"This structure decreases the labor used in recipes by 20%."
Is both shorter and makes more sense without having to use your brain too much.

[smeagoljp]

I see it as a bug in the labor rates. Fix the bug, imho. But then I think there will be a lot of complaints. Still, the point of building an advanced structure is the long term ROI. A 20% decrease makes a lot more sense than an 80% decrease.