Massive Planetary Shield Generators should have cost divided by 10 and shields generated multiplied by 10. They are extremeley useless as they are now because it takes a really long time to build them, and they provide not even enough shielding to delay a couple of LCs for very long.
RE: Mineral Scanners and such
I suggest we make the specific resource ones go 15/30/45, while the Robotoids remain 10/20/30. It makes sense that if you are using 3x as much space, you should get something out of it.
I suggest all Research Centers be made to generate 50 intel points so that you can get some counter intel possibility in the early game without having an intel-making ally. It makes no sense that a world of ~4 billion people is completely open to sabotage with absolutely ZERO chance of doing anything to reduce the effects or anything like that. This greatly increases balance and makes it so that he who gets Applied Intel first does not get on as much of an overwhelming lead. Still has a big lead, but is not omnipotent on the Intel front.
[ July 24, 2003, 21:50: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]