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Light · 20 Aug 2010, 12:27

Im a fan of bringing meaning back into the resources, as at the moment.. there might as well only be 1 resource type rather than 3.

I was thinking more along the lines of brining back eonium fuel costs (and deleting eonium required to build ships) and make them on a exponential scale. So that, it costs hardly anything to launch small fleets but as your fleets get bigger, the cost gets bigger.

It would provide some form of strategy due to everyone having a large stockpile of eonium at the start (and middle of the round if they arnt doing awesome). Each planet would have to figure out if it would be worth getting the shortterm gain by trading in there eonium stockpiles to build more ships but could prove costly in the longterm where they will be forced to manage there fleets better.
It wouldnt affect new players, casual players or players doing badly as they would never reach the point where it costs too much eonium to launch there fleets (especially as they wont be 3fleeting 24/7).

The devil is in the detail though and would take some working out to figure out the exact costs for eonium fuel to make it so that it didnt turn out too expensive for top planets to launch there fleets most of the time end of round and not too cheap that it doesnt effect anything.

20 Aug 2010, 12:27	#11
Light You've Seen The Light Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,152	Re: The Problem with Eonium Im a fan of bringing meaning back into the resources, as at the moment.. there might as well only be 1 resource type rather than 3. I was thinking more along the lines of brining back eonium fuel costs (and deleting eonium required to build ships) and make them on a exponential scale. So that, it costs hardly anything to launch small fleets but as your fleets get bigger, the cost gets bigger. It would provide some form of strategy due to everyone having a large stockpile of eonium at the start (and middle of the round if they arnt doing awesome). Each planet would have to figure out if it would be worth getting the shortterm gain by trading in there eonium stockpiles to build more ships but could prove costly in the longterm where they will be forced to manage there fleets better. It wouldnt affect new players, casual players or players doing badly as they would never reach the point where it costs too much eonium to launch there fleets (especially as they wont be 3fleeting 24/7). The devil is in the detail though and would take some working out to figure out the exact costs for eonium fuel to make it so that it didnt turn out too expensive for top planets to launch there fleets most of the time end of round and not too cheap that it doesnt effect anything. __________________ First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.