Improving production abilities at the moment is able to reduce your penalties for producing things covered by the new production capabilities, and has the possibility to give you more Production lines if it goes extremely well.
Design: Akhsoyrtam Printers
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The idea of Akhsoyrtam Printers was surprisingly ambitious. We have already had experience with 3D printing in many areas of the colony, but this was done via large expensive 3d printers that were expensive and time-consuming to create. Instead, we could develop a printer that would do that work for us.
The first task was to expand the capabilities of existing printers to work with smaller details and thus be able to create better components. This was simple and accomplished easily. But after this is where we encountered a serious issue.
The new and upgraded 3d printers could now print components to other printers, yes, but not to perfect level of detail used in regular construction techniques. Generation 1 would make near-perfect parts, but then generation 2 would make good parts, with generation 3 being reduced to only "workable". Each new generation was progressively worse at its task thanks to the imprecise components used in that generation's construction.
Central Command, upon hearing about this quirk, decided that the new Akhsoyrtam Printers were to not be used for creating new printers as they felt any level of imprecision in the printers could lead to more malfunctions in our military items at critical times.
The project isn't a failure, however. All existing printers are currently being upgraded to new models, and we can use these upgraded printers to make goods some degree of advancement higher than the previous printers.
Our knowledge of general-use 3d printing such as that used for printed pistols and many civilian goods in Moerth helped in both eliminating any potential bugs and maximizing the effectiveness.
It is now the Revision Phase of 2206.
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Topic: Planetary Arms Race - Moerth, Strategy Phase 2212 (Read 38040 times)