First thing to say, this is NOT a thread about virals, so do NOT mention virals at all in this thread. This is about making the marauder race less spammy and less ZOMG PYTH ANGEL. It has absolutely nothing to do with virals.
By and large, the marauder upkeep ratios are fairly random. It actually sometimes seems that the better the ship (excepting destroyers) the lower it`s upkeep, which is absolutely absurd. Now that Maraudian has easy access to changing ships, many changes to rebalance the game will follow.
The point of this thread is to address the marauder ship upkeeps. Later, once the general upkeeps are taken care of, the smaller ships of most races will receive bonuses making them actually useful to use, including marauder ships.
For now, though, the general idea of this thread is this: give marauder ships a fairly standard upkeep amount. The upkeep on pyth and angels are to be dramatically increased, while the upkeep on many other ships will be dropped significantly to more reasonable levels. Mostly, the ships will have similar upkeeps.
Feel free to comment.
Ship name - Old Upkeep - New Upkeep - Percentage of Upkeep
Eel - 22 - 7 - 9.9%
Manta - 30 - 10 - 12.8%
Ray - 37 - 8 - 9.8%
Piranha - 165 - 40 - 10.6%
D.Hammerhead - 570 - 511 - 14.1%
Barracuda - 438 - 142 - 9.4%
Pike - 410 - 201 - 15.8%
Tiger - 468 - 242 - 16.2%
Shark - 345 - 234 - 11.4%
D.Bullhead - 660 - 1002 - 15.8%
Sting - 272 - 175 - 10.9%
Pyth - 750 - 3444 - 15.3%
D.Angel - 1065 - 3711 - 16.9%
Further ship modifications (specifically some mild nerfing to the overpowered ships and some buffing to the smaller and underwhelming ships) to come.
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DeilocheOP