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THE CASE OF THE AMAZING VANISHING BUILDS

by Hazed

Industrial level is the first economic level where infrastructure builds vanish. When you promote to Mogul, your canals and heliographs will just disappear. Having completed the necessary 70 builds to promote, you will end up with a lot less!

Of course, it doesn't take much to start people complaining, whining and moaning in Fed DataSpace so when this was announced (by Pugwash, who was the first PO to experience this loss) there was a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth (or equivalent). It's not fair, people cried. Having done 70 builds, we should continue to have 70 builds. It's going to affect the next promotion. And so on and so forth, at great length.

Until the demi-goddess Hazed herself - yes, me - stepped in and told POs not to be such babies. Sure, they would lose 5 or 10 or however many it was off their total builds, but that would be taken into account when the promotion requirements for the next rank were settled.

And so the whinging stopped, and all was peaceful again!

Note that these disappearing builds are different from what happened to helio and defense base builds when you promoted to Engineer. Those builds, which add an extra production point to a specific commodity, remained but the effect was lost as the exchange re-rolled.

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