What If?

what if we...

left the build rates as they were and increased max pr for uws to 1.8bill or what ever
(say after u activate first project it unlocks your pr cap)

leave the exploring the same aswell once a player is setup with planets u dont really explore anyway more steal borders from others... less turns...
this will help new players joining the game to get setup alittle quicker, as this game can be a drag at the start if u have no idea that u can even explore a 1k barren cause u havnt got 1 after 1000 planets of exploring

You had buffs already, Sand: Access to Infected clusters for Agri and a massive boost to plunder income.

Collective is #1, me no need buffs >.>

Ah you may have misunderstood me, the earned income from upkeep applies only if the ships are in your fleet. Promoting high pr fighting.

Collectives have the best ships in the game. I would be hesitant buffing them without balancing out other ships. Collectives ships already need tweaking mods wise if this was allowed.

I must also say, in terms of fighting, with plunder boosted to these levels, I just made 3.5 bil off a 9k C4. I don`t think I need the income from all the ships I`ve destroyed too.

Personally I think going the americanministry route is the better route - the `one of each race` reverse engineer approach. Maybe along with removal of one or two (or indeed at the expense of one or two) of the collective ships.

So I could reverse engineer one ship for free.
Second one comes at the expense of one of the collective`s own.
Third the same.

For my own desires, all I want is a pyth.

There is a way for almost everything to be abused. Perhaps the benefits do not kick in until say, 50+mil? Just thinking offhandedly here... discuss.

Colllective shiplist needs updating desperately

Asmo is there a way that could be abused or become unbalanced income?

I had a thought that we could replace one of the coll ships with a new one, sorta update the shiplist. The though was that they would have a dreadnaut mirrored off the Nirvana. This ship would have the same shields but be only 70% the hull, pr and weapons. Upkeep and min cost TBD by admins.

I also had a thought that colls would be able to earn money off the ships they captured. Meaning that a 10mil pr stack of Herc, which costs like 9-something million per turn upkeep would instead credit that coll`s account, at like 60%. So that 10mil stack of herc would earn 5.4 million a turn. So you WANT to fight, and WANT to fight at high pr as it makes you money--or at least reduce the costs of a huge fleet...