Is this the WoW forums? Although I don't know how you disagreed with him. ANyways let it go. 

Another thing with this is, not just your request.  It seems everyone wants an option added. Heck even I want more color options.  My biggest issue is that is not what should be on the devs plate.  There way too many areas that need dev attention.  This would not be a simple thing to implement.

Stop reporting this thread please unless there is actually something to report.

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Island Dog, did you know that your karma is currently 666 ?

 



 

Awww, someone ruined it. He now has 667.

So, in the infinite world of space (or nearly infinite, on Insane maps) there's an artificial limit on the number of ships you can build?

I cannot imagine ever wanting to play a game under those conditions.

But, I could accept something like a variant of the LEP (which still needs tweaking) - that is, each ship you build of a particular class/type costs more and has higher maintenance costs than the one you built before it. That way, if you want a massive, overwhelming fleet, you still can, but you better have your economy humming if you want to be able to keep them ships running.

Here is my take on it.  I would never use this as an option because it is rather pointless however I would love to see this as a UP option to vote on.  Now if it is just an option I say put it in but if it is not then I say HELLLLL  NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  

I've given your idea a bit more thought. I still don't think that the devs should be spending time on it as a option and that it would make a good up decision or galaxy event. (extra ships would have to be decommissioned to address the point you brought up.

However I wonder if someone could make a mod for you guys that want this. That might be doable.

Would be nice if dev did it, but I know realistically, its a slim chance.  As a mod, I guess limits can be put on either hull size or weapons or both.  Don't want to limit colony ships or non-combat ships though.

Maybe have it where every colony automatically produce a specific resource that can be used to build 1 capital ship.  So bigger empires have more capital ships, but the cost of building that capital ships would be very high and would lower morale during the time it is being built.  If at any time the colony is lost, the cost of maintaining the Captital ship would be tremendous and would penalize empire moral and money.  The mechanic for this could be that once a colony is settled, it produces 1 resource that is needed to build that capital ship.  That resource also produces morale.  When the capital ship is built, the capital ship would cost the same amount of morale the resource is producing, thus balancing out.  So when a colony is lost, moral takes a dip and maintaining the capital ship would cost the faction.

The faction that takes the colony would now benefit from the resource to build a capital ship and the same method applies.

Also, capital ships should be powerful and not just an oversize version of the medium hull.  Capital ships should also produce bonuses to planets and ships they share a sector with.

Well, that's my idea for a mod for it.

Yep, looking into getting it created as a mod.  Hope I will have something soon to share.

That's a good idea.  I was thinking more like for each colony you have, you can build 1 capital ship.  Something similar to Battlestar Galactica where each colony has 1 ship named after it.  

Since I've been thinking about approaching this idea using mods, it would be a good opportunity to bring an old idea I have for a sci-fi world.  Galciv is an awesome franchise and as much as I like the story, Stardock actually created a great foundation to create our own universe.   

I think this is stuff that has great potential for the UP.

Sort of like early 20th century naval treaties to stop naval arms races by limited tonnage and whatnot.

Thats what I'm getting worked on actually.

Ya, thats true.  To anyone that is proficient on modding.  Can a new resource be created in addition to the existing ones?  Like add my own element that is required for Large hulls.

Was thinking of maybe requiring large hulls to use a specific element/resource.  Then in the UP, you can vote on a proposition to allow mining of that element or how much of the element can be mined.