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# of rebels shouldn't be proportional to shortfall. Instead For planets the penalty to happiness depends on amount of shortfall. When happiness is low enough there is a rebellion, but happiness->rebellion depends on many things (species-empire relations, policy cards, distance, environment, fleets n...

Perhaps instead of a policy slot, a set of mutually exclusive "one in the empire" buildings.

The which ship / colony rebels first is not the right question. (you should be able to have 1/2 your fleets/empire rebel on a single turn if you do things in just the right type of stupid (or your opponents do just the right combo) The right question is what causes a ship / planet to rebel. 1. not e...

What I could see Overall fleet morale...depends on spending influence/fleet ship cost.. this way if ships defect it gets easier to keep existing ones loyal + species-empire relation number gives a morale for all ships of a species in your empire Then the result of morale would be dependent on circum...

To solve exponential resources you need exponential costs. Using shipyards as an example...if they are going to be strategic (ie limited in number) they need to become more expensive later in the game. (either in PP/RP, etc.) That increased cost can be based on how big your empire/supply group is, h...

Theme wise it works because the engineers need to be On the ship to maintain it, just like the pilots have to be there to operate it. And because they are sharing the same environment, they must be the same species.

Well the goal should be to allow that ability without "fiddling" So proposal Ships in queue; -cost maintenance if you are not working on them -are visible Ships can be put into 'hiding/mothballs' where they cost less mainentnance & are hidden but require production to "reactivate&...

There is the surprise factor there....
(meaning the issue is that ships under production-
1-cost no maintenance
2-are undetected

If something is in the queue, every turn that it does not receive PP, it loses some PP.. So the upkeep is not charged to your "general PP" it is charged against the object itself. Would need to add a way to keep it from finishing while re-enabling it intermittantly to top-up to within one...

One possible solution.

If something is in the queue, every turn that it does not receive PP, it loses some PP.. So the upkeep is not charged to your "general PP" it is charged against the object itself.

Definitely have collateral damage (including to population) from ground combat However, I think if unhappy population -> rebels -> ground combat -> collateral damage Then you don't need a massive 80-90% per round of conquest, you could have it depend on the amount of troops.. or even just 10-20% (if...

One idea on the "more powerful"= harder to acquire Have the "Tech level" Special of the natives give both defense and population So Natives "Tech level" (Default, Moderate, or High) gives them a population cap (removed on conquest) as well as base defense (obviously rem...

Well... Maybe 300% wouldn't hurt. But 30% is too off, even 70%. If the maintenance is over 50% then colonization HURTS your output. There should be a set of policy cards (low Influence maintenance/world, high Influence production/world) that by the end of the game makes it worthwhile to colonize th...

So if you have colonized the whole Galaxy, depending on your Policy Choices, that could mean 30%, 70%, 150%, or 300% of your worlds need to be on full influence focus just to pay maintenance. More like 80%-150%. I mean, allowing for crazy strategies (regarding policy choices and anything else) that...

In terms of Maintenance and Un/Happiness relationship I like this model Imperial maintenance= colonies *( Min + (Max-min)*(% of galaxy colonized)) However.... Max and Min should depend on 'Policy Cards" chosen. Those "Policy Cards" could have benefits or costs So if you are incorporat...