Expedited Permits

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I have not been paying much attention to the policy section of the Civilain research tree but after a recent post on another civilain tech I thought I should take a second look.

I noticed the first tech available under the Policy group to be Expedited Permits.  For a modest price it provides a 33% increase in the construction of structures.

Does anyone know if this is all structures, including Tactical structures?  If so filling a planet's tactical slots on a key planet or choke point, or getting a new aquistions logistical slots 33% faster would seem to be a real good deal.  I tried to watch the construction of tactical structures like hangars and gauss cannons and they appeared to be getting done fast but observation is not very concrete evidence.

Anyone know? 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I am fairly certain it does reduce time for both tactical and logistical structures.  Its easy to check, when you are going to build something, it has a build time and when you research, you can see if it was reduced from the last time you saw it.  I was just playing a game and I did see it was reduced, the build time...no need to keep an eye on construction.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

In reality, it is 16.667 % for first level of research and 33.3334 % for the second level...

 

RESEARCHSUBJECT_PLANETMODULEIMPROVEMENT_TECHINDUSTRY_PLANETMODULECONSTRUCTION.entity

...

MaxNumResearchLevels 2
priority 1.000000
researchBoolModifiers 0
researchFloatModifiers 1
researchModifier
    modifierType "ModuleBuildRateAdjustment"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue 0.166667

...

 

And it is for all planetary module...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

And keep in mind that the change in overall build time is not a 17%/33% reduction. To find the actual build time, perform the calculation t/(1+R), where t is the normal build time and R is the researched increase in construction rate (either 0.17 or 0.33).

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting InfiniteVoid, reply 3
And keep in mind that the change in overall build time is not a 17%/33% reduction. To find the actual build time, perform the calculation t/(1+R), where t is the normal build time and R is the researched increase in construction rate (either 0.17 or 0.33).

huh, never would have guessed that.  So 33% is really 25%.  Example: 100(seconds)/1.33 = 75. 

Still a great deal I think.

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Just about any modification on a rate will have that kind of effect on overall time (like refire rate of weapons).