Introduce Upkeep allready

[Solonius_Rex]

@Merin_Ryskin

But those upkeep costs don’t scale with the number of capitals/supercapitals you build. Once you own sovereignty and a place to store them you’re set.

In order to hurt the larger coalitions and entities though, you would have to make it scale on a level that makes it untenable for smaller groups. We need a system that hurts larger entities but doesnt necessarily hurt smaller ones. Upkeep hurts it all across the board, evenly.

@Merin_Ryskin

And that’s very difficult to accomplish when you have the massive N+1 problem with capital blobs. The first thing to do is to scale down the number of capitals. At that point the smaller groups can bring the anti-capital counters and it will matter much less if they can’t afford a titan because the other side can only afford one titan instead of 500.

Fighter launch tubes on T2 BB hull?

Id like a frigate to be able to fire a doomsday weapon. Its a one-shot weapon that burns out after one use, but it would allow a small group of frigs to destroy a capital ship.

So I actually presented this a long long time ago. Having a non-capital ship with viable anti-capital weapons, even if its dedicated and only one-time-use would definately give smaller groups the ability to destroy larger enemies without the need to ship into capitals themselves.

The problem with your idea is that it doesnt fix the N+1 problem of capitals. The other side will still be able to afford dozens of titans while you are unable to afford a single one because of both costs and upkeep. They may not be able to afford 500 anymore, but even if they were only able to afford a mere 50 titans, thats still a lot, lot more than what you would be able to afford.

We dont need LESS of them. We need to be able to DESTROY them.

Edit: Sorry i should say we dont SIMPLY need LESS of them.