[Drake]

Triumvir, that's what I thought at first, but it's no big deal. Consider that my resource output at the end of my game was over 70 million in each resource per turn. You don't need bases for score until the end of the game, and at that point the maintenance cost was insignificant.

Prior to that, you just need to make sure maintenance costs don't hamper your expansion. Once you get past the critical expansion/ship construction/ringworld construction phases, points put into lowering your maintenance costs are worthless, as they don't help your score and could've been used elsewhere.

[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 15 February 2001).]