WoodMan
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On the harshest settings you still reach the point at which your economy becomes infinite, so there is still an issue, just not as bad as on other settings. I think on Normal though (when you start with a normal homeworld) the game begins in this phase, which is a bit silly in my opinion. I do think the economy needs changing, but Eliott and Erik must be very careful not to do anything rash like just raise the prices on everything, because it will kill the harder settings games, especially for the AI.
They need to get rid of the infinte economy stage somehow though, which you reach at different points depending on the starting conditions.
I would suggest development costs for new worlds. But this has already been suggested so many times my guess is Eliott is probably planning to put it in (he usually listens to forum posters).
A scaling military maintenenace cost would be great for both keeping the economy a challenge and also preventing one player (i.e. the human controlled player) from becoming dominant too easily. For example with every ship you have your maintenance cost goes up by a %. So, 30 ships of the same type doesn't cost exactly 30 times more than maintaining a single ship of the same type, it maybe costs 60, or 100 times the cost of a single ship. Generally the bigger things get, the more unwieldy and inefficient they get, this mechanic can represent that. It would go a long way towards helping vs the infinite economy in late game. Eliott alredy put in something similar for research, to prevent the "winning" team from soaring away in front on research, something for military maintenance too would limit military size and economy of the winning team, keeping things challenging for the player (who is usually winning, especially if it is someone who has owned the game for two years or so).
Edit: Molari is great too It is a great episode if those two share screenspace, hehe.
< Message edited by WoodMan -- 5/6/2012 2:10:42 PM >
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