Supply ...Can`t Get There from Here

[Black Cat]

Yes, I did mis-state the " supplies "", the Thread title should have been "Resources", in fact all were in supply. It was the low resource issue I was talking about.

It seems that even vast empires can`t maintain large Fleets, even without expensive units like Warp ships and Star killers.

With owning over 30 systems now on a large Map, many very rich size 20 planets, and maxed resource techs I can only really support about 20 Dreadnoughts, 2 CVL`s some few Cruisers and 2 Aux. repair Ships and 1 Warp Ship.

I`ve come back to the Game recently, and when I got it on first release, I really don`t remember this huge maintance cost issue for Ships. Was this introduced in a recent Patch ?

[spoon]

Black Cat said:
even vast empires can`t maintain large Fleets, even without expensive units like Warp ships and Star killers.

What did you set your Maintence Aptitude to when you set up your race? Because unless you dropped it, you shouldn't be having such severe maintenance problems.

In the future, if you don't do this already, ALWAYS set your Maintenance Aptitude to 110%. It makes a huge difference.

[Fyron]

spoon said:
In the future, if you don't do this already, ALWAYS set your Maintenance Aptitude to 110%. It makes a huge difference.

In addition to being absurdly cheap to purchase. 500 points for the ability to support 67% more ships...

[dogscoff]

I`ve come back to the Game recently, and when I got it on first release, I really don`t remember this huge maintance cost issue for Ships. Was this introduced in a recent Patch ?

Maintenance/ component costs weren't changed significantly in any of the later patches, as far as I can remember. Of course if you're now running a modded game - or if you used to use modded files- that could explain the differences between what you see now and what you remember from your earlier experiences of the game.

If you're not using mods and never have, then modding the game might be the answer you are looking for. Simply tweak (copies of) your data files to increase the output of resource production facilities and the capacity of the storage facilities. That will allow you (and your enemies ) to support larger fleets.

EDIT: Cheeze's spaceport suggestion is a good one as well. DO you see little red barrel icons on all your extra-system colonies?

[Alneyan]

Another possibility to explain your economic shortages: have you lowered your resource gathering characteristics and/or your maintenance aptitude? Doing so would cripple your economy, especially in the case of maintenance, since lowering maintenance will kill your economy very quickly.

Along the same lines, what is the current happiness levels of your worlds? Happiness is paramount to determining resource income, and so the number of ships you can safely supporter. Or have you taken something besides "peaceful" as an happiness type?

Besides such odd Empire setups, I see no other reason why your economy would be in such a poor state, if you have expanded well and developped your colonies.