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Old July 5th, 2003, 08:21 PM
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Default Re: Biggest PBW game ever?

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Well, in fact I do have two surrendered empires under my control, but I don't think their ship limit is added to mine (it is defined for a player not for empire, I believe but Imight be wrong too). Though I think that if someone gets 20 000 ships, the game is quite finito then. It require about all the resources any galaxy produces. Ever.
No, it is the limit per empire, not per player. If you have 10k ships and 10k are gifted to you, you can no longer build any ships.

Actually, Planet/System Gravitational Shield facilities require Shields 9/10, not any Stellar Manipulation tech.

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Old July 5th, 2003, 08:27 PM
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Interesting Geo - if ships can be gifted normally and that ignores the limits, then an alliance of two empires could have one empire gifting to the other to give the receiving empire an unlimited number of ships.

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...Though I think that if someone gets 20 000 ships, the game is quite finito then. It require about all the resources any galaxy produces. Ever.
Nah, not with maintenance reduction. My 1000-ship fleet was using less than half my maintenance, and I wasn't really trying to increase my resource production, even though I had... about 9-9 systems. So the practical limit is probably more like hmmm... well, I'd say at least 100,000 _good_ ships, not to mention escorts etc., and of course, not including the infinite potential of mothballed ships.

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Yes, that is true. But, that is a very gamey tactic and would give you a really bad reputation if you tried that in a PBW game.
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moth balled ships count towards the limit do they not...
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No, they don't. Check your score after you mothball a ship. It goes down.

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moth balled ships count towards the limit do they not...
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No, they don't. Check your score after you mothball a ship. It goes down.
Actually Fyron, Tesco is correct. Mothballed ships still count against your ship limit. They don't add to your score though and they don't show up in the score display as you say, but they still show in the ship/units screen and they will cause you to hit your ship limit and won't allow new construction. They have to be scrapped, destroyed or given away.

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