Dimension X: Home World Wars

[geoschmo]

That would depend on the number of players I think. Not huge in any case, but a ten planet start can be spread out over several systems. Too small a map and people will be sharing homesystems.

[Intimidator]

Make sure players have enough astroids to mine.................

[geoschmo]

Well, with a stock map you'd have asteroids and a lot of planets that you would normally be colonizing to remote mine if you want. Trade would help as well. But even without that you can support a lot of ships with ten good homeworlds. Especially without the cost of building and maintaining colony ships, and queue usage on all those little colonies that aren't really generating any income for you. At first your empire would be much stronger then you are used to. Of course the late game empires would be smaller than normal, but everybody would have the same handicap there. And less micromanagment.

[Fyron]

120% maintenance reduction will rule the day.

[Ragnarok-X]

Edit the settings.txt in a way that all planets, apart from playerplanets have a minimum value of 120%. That will help as well.