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Originally posted by Gavin:
I don't like the minerals requirements for the game, it's too excessive, difficult to get any kind of a decent sized fleet going unless you colonize and mine huge numbers of colonies. Is there a way to tone down the maint. cost values? I had a search the other night and couldn't find anything. I know how to turn down the initial minerals cost on things, but not the maintenance cost.
(and how is that calculated?)
Besides changing the single setting in settings.txt for maintenance costs, you can also increase the mining ability of mineral extraction facilities or edit components.txt to decrease the minerals costs of various components. There is lots and lots of room for customization of the game.