LinKueiOminae
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6 years ago Note: Taelon was given to powerplants and did not provide money. Each Powerplant was starting with a fixed but pretty low power output and unloading Taelon was increasing the power output. A powerplant was IIRC able to triple or quadruple it's power output when full with Taelon. It's like a silo where the fill status defines the additional power output. A bit like the Yuri bio reactor, which you fill with Taelon instead of infantry.
Only water provided money. When the water bar was full, you got 3000cr. By clicking on the water bar, you were also able to pre-sell the collected water (IIRC with a little fee like -250cr, since you were not waiting till full. Pre-selling thus worked only when you had 500cr or more collected).
Water and Taelon ressources were also a bit different. Water never ran out. It had a fixed starting amount which can be collected. But over time it slowly regenerates. If completely "empty", harvesters were collecting only in the very slow speed of the waters regenerating speed, which could take very long to fill a harv. (Thus it was necessary to control more than only a single water source)
Taelon could run completely dry. No ressource recharge on this one. A Taelon source was providing only enough ressources to fill about 3 or 4 powerplants.
Resources in the original had credits, water, and taelon.
Water and Taelon have their own bars, and when the player fills up either bar, they get ~3000 credits. (EDIT: This is incorrect, see comments below)
In the mod, we just deposit these resources directly as credits in typical RA fashion.
This is a pretty important feature to DR, next to building with construction rigs: https://github.com/drogoganor/DarkReign/issues/1