posted on February 2nd, 2010, 4:19 pm
Hi there!
For a few days I'm having this idea now and it seems to me it needs to be posted here. It is an idea about a new kind of economy, so probaly applicabe to a race in Fleetops 5.
We usually have really powerful fractions in FO that deploy a task force in a sector that is completly autarchic from their race's imperium. But what if that was different - the admiral was an explorer committed this mission only in prospect of supplying the mother-empire with resources. Thus upkeeping production at a yard becomes impossible in th early stages of th game.
If your economy can sustain the demands of the empire you will gain "reputation"-points similar to the borgs "priority". But i don't want them to decrease when you are building ships. These points give you access to higher quality technologies and ships (in contrast to most other races not just bigger ships, but ships with a better cost-performance-ratio). Of couse the "reputation" will go down if you cannot provide the resources for your empire. So do not spend all your resources at once but keep a safty stock.
Besides reputation you will also get some reinforcements from time to time, if you are good at paying the taxes. This should not at all be as effective as a federations warpin. When you manage to survive until you can afford a yard and some ships you will of course will be rewarded with latest tecnology, which is equally distributed to battleships, cruisers and destroyers (which i always want to see lategame too).
The mining operations are different too. You will have more need for resources than any other race. You will not have the option to build mining-stations like the others, as your main base will fulfill that role. You will not be able to produce ships on your own in the beginning of the game, thus having no miners too. The good news, all your battleships cargo-bays can be outfitted to transport ore, and the tractor beams refitted for mining purposes. So swarm out to a moon fill all storages as fast as possible and return to your base.
Of course the mining-refits are not the best fighting vessels at all and horribly slow too, so there will be a refit center where all ships, can exchange modules (I've suggested such a system once before). Besides the mining modules there might be support-modules, weapon-modules, troop-tramsport-modules, fighter-modules ans so on. The fleet may consist of the oldest clunker the empire may give away, but its adapted best to the enviromnent.
To be continued ...
