16/06/2011 · 02:54 PM
#10
Yes, as a collective I never really enjoyed capturing large numbers of Miner ships because they were so freaking expensive!!
Then again, if you got mad land and research going with food prices above 15, and making the top 3 or 5 on the server rich list to boot, it might not matter quite so much. But this is the exception, not the rule. ;)
And granted gradual, that would be one implication of my idea. However, it would also (kinda sorta) encourage stacking in collective since there is always that danger that the lower stacks would be destroyed but not get DP. Then the captured ships would be exposed and potentially destroyed.
And given how turn intensive collective ships already are, it would be really hard for them to pull this off with a large # of ship types for any significant length of time without relying heavily on stacking.