Well, I haven`t had any PMs objecting to the ideas I set forth and a bunch in support of it, so we`ll go ahead with my three ideas for the first petition. However, as a community, we need to agree on how to deal with the viral upkeep issue before we propose something to Stephen.
(I apologize for not doing this a while ago, I`ve barely been on GC this past week, been quite distracted.)
My preference for this would be to standardize the upkeep of viral ships based on their class. So, destroyers have one upkeep per PR while battleships have another.
Another possibility, one I like even better, would be devising a formula to determine the upkeep of viral ships, similar (although much improved upon) to the old PR formula. This would be complicated to derive, but it would work out better.
Or, the third possibility, which was the original idea WAY back when Stephen almost updated the game, is just a standardized upkeep with respect to PR. PR/1.2 or PR/1.3 were the numbers floating around back then.
Weigh in! Lets decide this thing. We cannot present a petition to Stephen without most of the game being unified. Once we agree on how we want the upkeep to be dealt with (with alternatives being offered to Stephen, so ideally we could pick the numbers we want for all three options I mentioned above so that he can pick whatever he is willing to do) then we can start gathering empire names for the petition. The more people who agree with whatever is on the petition, the less people who will be upset, and the more likely Stephen will be to do the update for us.
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DeilocheOP