Frogboy: A request about starbases

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Would it be possible to make it so that starbases on resources don't cost 5bc a turn. In my latest game, I had the ability to get alot of resources, 2 influence, 2 morale, a military and 3 technology. By the time I got them, my maintenance levels were enormous. It crippled me in the earlier game. Any other starbase I' m for charging for, but the resource ones should be free.

It's my opinion, but I believe it would make it a little more fun.
Thanks :)

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Free starbases were deemed to be too unbalancing and the 5/bc solution was chosen out of a few other options (see sticky starbase thread).

Not sure what map size you are playing on but 8 resources would likely turn your game into a carewalk.

Well, I guess we need this change to stop people from building 144-starbase ship catupults :)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
However most of the suggestions included the idea that resource starbases should be freebies. It seems kind of silly to punish the user for the one thing starbases were primarily meant for. Of course it would complicate the coding situation a bit, so i can understand why they didn't do it.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Large map size, and to be fair I got a small share of the availabe planets. Probably half of what all the other races got. The 8 resources should have evened things out, but instead their puttting me farther behind. I haven't played it out yet, but it doesn't look very balance to me.

later
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I agree starbases on resources should be free (or 1 b.c. maintenance?). Gives more of a reason to capture them!
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I would like to disagree! If you own 8 resources you are basically guarenteed to win. Offsetting their benefit with having to maintain them makes you think more carefully about which ones you want and which ones you can live without.

I am seeing this type of thread a lot now..

Brad is there a way to insert a ramping up of things like this through the difficulty levels? I play on intelligent, which i understand to be all-out AI with no benefits given to the computer, and I want the game to be as hard as you can make it (given that all races are on the same playing field). However, many other people don't want this and would prefer a more casual game. To this end, can you phase in penalities with harder levels (SB upkeep, morale difficulty, production cap, etc?)

Speaking of which, PLEASE turn on 'nasty AI' for all AIs on Intelligent. I prefer not to play genius since the computer is being given free stuff.. I'd rather have the AIs be as good as they can be without being given an artificial boost.

Thanks
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
If resources are seeded fairly, the only way you should be able to get that many is by EARNING them! If this is much easier to do on lower levels ... that's fine. That's why they are lower levels!