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As capital ships are now limited in a different way...

I doubt we will ever see a game of more capital ships than frigates...

Did they release a patch I haven't seen?

As things stand, you need capitol crews (given by research) and fleet points (given by owning planets).

You're suggesting that you remove the need for fleet points for capitol ships leaving them dependent on capitol crews only. And since those scale with research (in current patch, at least) its theoretically possible for an empire to research the entire crew tree, then get forced back into its "home" system (or a side-system that the enemy hasn't had time to clear out for whatever reason). As a result, you'd have the ability to build 16 capitol ships, from just that one planet.

If they change it to crews being given by buildings, rather than research, my entire point is moot of course.

Which is as it should. If there was any justice in this world one shouldn't be able to research it all in long games as well.

I am not for a cap on any ship type. That will just force me to play the same way evey time.
Give me my ship points and let me spend them how i want....let me build all the same type or whatever.

I agree with multi, it would be nice if your intire fleet wouldn't be filled with just capships. removing the Fleetpoint requirement will help a lot with that.

Not really -- the capships don't have a very effective anti-fighter weapon. Both flak burst and the magnetic thing aren't very effective.

I think the current system is fine. Maybe just increase the build time on capital ships.

If you continue to find yourself with many capital ships and few frigates and cruisers then maybe fleet supply from planets should be increased.

A have an idea for a new building called supply depot that would be built from tactical points and provide more fleet points. This way you can convert your tactical points from your rear planets that don't need defense. This should give an ample supply of fleet points so when you reach your capital ship limit you should have plenty of points left over for other ships.

"Space Farms" have been decisively vetoed by certain devs who shall remain nameless.

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Actually i would prefer if your whole fleet had a "soft limit" instead of a hard limit.

That would force you to balance fleet size/developement and research. Too big fleet = No income to spend on research for those advanced shields.

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The game used to be like that. Diff between Sins and Company of Heros is that Sins can last days if you play a large game. Putting a resourse upkeep cost like that will slow the game down a lot. The way it is now. Makes you want to attack. Not many games really do that well...

the Unit cap should be enforced economically, not with some kind of arbitrary unit cap.


That is every ship you build should basically put a tax on your resources. When you hit the max number of ships you should be making almost NO money at all or no money at all. Everything will be going into upkeep.


In fact, if you over build it should start draining stored resources. If you don't have enough to play then the ship gets moth balled... which means it just goes dark if it's around an allied world or explodes if its' around anything else. In the event that you have more to pay that ship can be reactivated if it was around an allied world.

That works a lot better than just randomly picking a ship to shutdown or destroy.

Make it so that when you can no longer pay all your ship's maintenance costs, they loose a percent of their repair, fighter construction, and antimatter regen rates equal to the percent of unpaid maintenance costs.