On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz
<schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example:
> Power Plant-A is a TL9 thing.
> If I build it as "Modified", then it is 2 TL's higher, a little
> smaller, and half price.
> So a TL-11 power plant would be half the price of a TL9 one, a little
> smaller, a little more reliable. Makes sense.
> You can build a TL9 plant as "Ultimate" , +4 TLs, and it's got much
> more output, much smaller, more fuel efficient... and 4x normal price.
> That kinda makes sense too : "We're taking every thing we know about
> building these, and building the best we can, with cost as no object."
> Such a power plant would be TL13.....
>
> Which leads to my question:
> Can one build a TL13 "Ultimate", then apply the +2TL "Modified" on it
> to bump up to TL15?
> Which would make it even smaller, more efficient, but best of all
> change the price from x4 to x4/2 ?

How does this compare to, say, High Guard?

Or are you talking about an actual "Power Plant A" as opposed to a TL9
power plant of rated output X?

High Guard drives got smaller for the same rated performance as TL
went up.  Yay for efficiency.

But if you built a drive of performance X, that's what it was- all
your benefits were from the TL increase.

I would generally expect the same for T5.

Dan

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