What best to stop fleet capacity level?

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I'm not sure how many level, but I do knew max Fleet supply cost 75% of your income credit, and that's not funny! anyway, in most general game and common game, when your stop reseach for fleet supply> 4 or 5, stop at 50%, only upgrade if you have lot of income and full of fleet and see future if your fleet somehow lost and can recover quick aback in full force soon before enemie keep pound your empire?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
75% of a multi-star empire scales pretty well. I think if you're in a single-system game you should probably stop at tier 5 or so but definitely go all the way if you're in one of the huge maps.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Yesh, but it's would be hard to recover if you are happan to be huge empire to small empire in huge mapes, Just big if.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I guess the upkeep could be dynamic, based on how many fleet points you are actually USING. instead of your max points.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I guess the upkeep could be dynamic, based on how many fleet points you are actually USING. instead of your max points.
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I would like to see this. Sometimes I hold off on researching another tier so I can build up a reserve of resources, and I would like it if I could just research the tiers and not have the upkeep kick in until after I've passed that tier limit. I'm sure that this came up in beta though.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Well I'm not a huge fan of upkeep, but it does help the 'smaller guy' in some games. Like you guys already mentioned, it makes players who have reached their max think twice about going ahead with the next level or not which helps prevent an even greater gap in unit # advantage. It also gives the small player a chance to slowly chip away at the bigger players economy and ability to recover from the chipping away by slowing taking out planets and if possible, ships too.

It may not be a perfect or ideal system, but it does get the job done better than in beta when it was more planets = more ships and no income penalty. That was much more of an uphill battle for the 'smaller guy' in games.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
 :d Yesh, I think it's wise to stay on the balance, only spend what you need to, and use best ship for match enemies weaking ship to save resoure, not to waste your people and ship easy, (Sound lot of make sence at least, but lot of work, hey give weaker player fighting chance like in real world, well sort of. well in old, old real world, not like today, I dont think there will be new nation unless there world war 3 or lot of unhappy people rebel round the world!)