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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1948678" data-attributes="member: 2020">Here's a question I think everyone has, and I didn't see any resolution of it in the rules:  Serpenteye posted:  Total Drow:  1,500,000 = 80 IC x 0.75 = 60 IC  From Edena:  Now, the maximum potential under your system for 1,500,000 beings is 90 IC.  ((1,500,000 x 6) / 100,000)  It had already been dropped to 80 IC from the 90 IC that represents the theoretical maximum IC capacity of those people.  Now there's this NASTY x 0.75, dropping it to 60 IC.  Obviously, drow society is defective.  (chuckles)  What must I do to make them go from defective to effective?  How do I get them up to that magical x 1.00 number?  And then, once I've done that, how do I get them up to the theoretical maximum of 90 IC?  And here's the clincher:  If I spend 320 PP on industrialization, your rules say I gain 160 IC for my power, for the next Turn.  But is that 150 multiplied by that nasty x 0.75, so I only get 120 IC of it?!  How do I fix this little problem, so it doesn't happen in the first place, and I get the nice x 1.00 equation instead?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And, then, how do I bump it from the 80 IC (under the magic x 1.00) to the full 90 IC?  Obviously, Eclavdra wants her people to produce everything possible, and then some!  -  I am assuming that if I spend PPs to industrialize, it increases the size of my entire power.  But, I could be wrong, and if so ...  What if some sneaky player wants to spend PPs to industrialize ONLY those parts of his power that have the magic x 1.00 written after them, so that they get only the maximum increase in IC?  Consider my power again:    Empire of the Yuan-Ti: 2,000,000 (yuan-ti, servitor races, all others) = 100 IC x 1,00 = 100 IC  That's got the magic x 1.00 on it.  I could industrialize only that.  I could spend 300 IC on industrialization, get 150 IC for it, and put it all in the Empire of the Yuan-Ti, bumping them up to 250 PL from their current 100 PL.  That'd be a lot better than wasting them on those defective drow with their nasty x 0.75 multiplier!  I'm assuming this tactic is illegal.  It is illegal?  It ... is ... illegal ? .....</blockquote>

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