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I'm also pondering making gifting cost IP, perhaps (partly) dependent on the costs for annexing a planet by the empires involved. I find that much reasonable. Helps against micromanagement around planets and fleets, and makes sense fluff-wise (your population can't be happy if you gift away their b...

LienRag wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:33 am Could Geoff/Ophiuchus/whoever worked on the code tell us what to test now ?

You can set up a local multiplayer game with a few clients a test whatever you like.

Could round up to 1 decimal, or no decimals (so stability 10 == stability 10.5).

...is above 10, capped at 30 stability.
Or
...is above 10, up to a maximum at 30.
Or
...is above 10, up to a maximum at 30 stability.

Would any of these be better?

Then make the upkeep of a given ship dependent on the count of non-enemy ships in the vicinity (maybe half the weight of peaceful ships). In your example: A at war with C and D. B at war with C. Everyone else at peace. So A+B vs C and A vs C+D. A and C have less peace-or-allied ships around and so w...

Don't think that's a problem.

Ophiuchus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:00 pm edit: Note like the other solutions, this also has the issue of unfair(?) low upkeep when combining fleets of different empires against a common enemy

Then consider also those ships.

And exclude designs with outpost/colony parts, to not make too direct competition with colonization, I guess?

With a cost discount for 2 parts: - Good for cheaper chaff (armor and maybe fuel), scouts, troops, colony/outpost ships, and gun-only warships. - Useless for carriers and gunships with any extra (shields, fuel, speed or stealth), although long range operation can be backed up with outposts. With a c...

No, I meant you wrote "...is counted for the upkeep in that system..." and i wanted to ask which systems this applies to (and i assumed you meant basically any system) I was talking about ship upkeep (in IP). A base upkeep per ship would be increased based on the number of other ships at ...

The less different parts, the simpler ...? Oh, maybe it would play well to make it about number of different parts, so that a ship with only weapons or only armor pays less... Nah, I don't like it, it makes cheaper to specialize your ships (many tanks + crystal cannons) and that always means more fl...

Or just use distance: any owned (armed or not, for chaff) ship at less than 1 turn (or 2) of distance is counted for the upkeep in that system (and in other systems as well...). Would that mean I have to keep upkeep in every system in 1 (or 2) turns distance of one of my ships? Sorry, I don't' unde...

Or just use distance: any owned (armed or not, for chaff) ship at less than 1 turn (or 2) of distance is counted for the upkeep in that system (and in other systems as well...). Distance measured considering their speed (so a 200 speed ship at 180 uu via 3 hops counts for the upkeep, a 60 speed ship...

LienRag wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:57 pm They are, but in wargames there are usually way less choke points than it FreeOrion.

That would be another reason for limiting stacks.

Oops, my bad