Colony ships, for sale cheap!

[Fyron]

I said to incease the size, not the hit points. These huge colony ships would still be as vulnerable as the regular colony ships.

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So, instead I'll argue that private sources -- banks, merchants, industries, and the colonists themselves -- bear most of the cost of a colony ship. The cost paid by an empire is only the cost of subsidizing the colonization. In contrast, military ships are paid for entirely by the empire.

What do you think of that idea?

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That's a good idea, but it kind of misses the point. The point of making colony ships expensive is to slow down the incredibaly rapid rate of expansion, not just to make you spend more money.

[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]