blish_city.txt

Blish Cities

1. Named after the legendary atomic era writer James Blish, who first popularised
the concept of spacefaring cities cruising around looking for work. NOTE: if you
want the word 'City' in the name, you need to include it!

2. Cities have a name, belong to a cartel and can be allocated to any planet in
the owning cartel.

3. Cities have an economic level, and they can produce commodities within that level.

4. Cities have up to five slots for production, each commodity produced must be
from their economic level. You can have more than one slot producing the same
commodity.s

5. Each slot has a capacity of between 8 and 12 inclusive (random) production points.

6. It takes two days to retool for new production if a change is made to any slot.
During this time production is halted.

7. Cities produce income for the cartel as well as the production for the planet.

8. Very occasionally they will produce exotic commodities/objects for the cartel
owner (not yet in!)

9. Cities may only be configured by the cartel owner, except that the planet owner
may also change the production - in which case the cartel owner will be notified.
(ie the cartel is the owner of the city, but the planet owner is the 'customer')

10. A planet may only employ one Blish city at a time.


Building Blish Cities

1. Only one can be built at a time, and only on the cartel's prime planet.

2. To build cities you need a graving dock.

3.	Building Materials:

	Graving Dock:	20 meg 5 days

		Alloys					9,450
		Clays						6,000
		Nickel					3,000
		Xmaetals					4,050
		Mechparts				1,950
		Polymers					4,125
		Droids					1,125
		Lasers					2,025
		Nanos						  675
		Synths					3,000
		Tools						4,875
		

	Blish Cities:

	Base:
		Stage 1:	10 workers	6 meg		1 slot	5 days
			Alloys				3,975
			Monopoles			1,200
			Generators			2,700
			Droids				3,525
			Nanos					1,350
	
		Stage 2:	10 workers	4 meg		2 slots	2 days
			Woods					2,025
			Xmetals				5,100
			Polymers				4,725
			Synths				2,100
			Katydidics			  975

		Stage 3:	12 workers	4 meg		3 slots	2 days
			Semiconductors		6,825
			Pharmaceuticals	3,225
			Controllers			1,050
			Laboratories		1,800
			Clinics				2,400
		
		Stage 4: 12 workers	5 meg		4 slots	3 days
			Soya					7,950
			Clays					3,975
			Vidicasters			  450
			Firewalls			  900
			Libraries			1,125

		Stage 5: 16 workers	6 meg		5 slots	4 days
			Crystals				1,350
			Tools					3,825
			ToxicMunchers		  675
			Musiks				2,700
			Simulations			1,275
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	Plus one of the following:
	
	Agri:	2 days work 8 meg
			Livestock			5,025
			Soya					8,025
			Woods					2,025
			Petros				2,775
			Mechparts			3,675
			RNA					1,350
			Probes				  825
			Sensamps				1,050

	Resource: 3 days work 10 meg
			Explosives			6,075
			Lanzarik				5,925
			Nitros				4,050
			AntiMatter			  975
			Sensors				  375

	Industrial: 4 days work 12 meg
			Petrochemicals		4,050
			Radioactives		2,325
			Alloys				6,975
			Lasers				2,025
			Nanos					1,050
			Synths				1,200

	Technological: 5 days work 14 meg
			Monopoles			3,000
			Semiconductors		5,400
			Xmetals				5,025
			Pharmaceuticals	2,700
			Droids				1,125
			GAs Chips			2,100
			Tracers				1,875

	Leisure: 6 days work 16 meg
			Katydidics			2,850
			Libraries			3,150
			Sensamps				2,025
			Studios				4,125
			Vidicasters			3,975
			Nanofabrics			2,475
			Woods					4,650
			
	

Notes for alan:

No rioting while being built
Sort out leaving cartel when have a city

XML format:
<blish-city name="Flying Dutchman" cartel="Sol" planet="Earth" econ="resource" slots="3">
	<production commod="xmetals" start="1"/>
	<production commod="alloys"/>
	<production commod="crystals"/>
</blish-city>

Syndicate parser needs to change to handle blish-city stuff
Blish-city building yard (graving dock) needs coding