Characteristics (BUG)

[Fyron]

Well that would explain why you seem to think your bonuses are acting in reverse, and this is not the first time you have claimed such things.

[Baron Munchausen]

Maybe you are misunderstanding how the maintenance ability works and using it in reverse? Try the other way once. Give yourself a 'maintenance penalty' and see how that looks.

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Maybe you are misunderstanding how the maintenance ability works and using it in reverse? Try the other way once. Give yourself a 'maintenance penalty' and see how that looks.

He said he had it set to impressive, so I doubt it. Most likely its just a game to game difference in the amount of planets with good mineral values.

[Atrocities]

Man I do not know what I am doing wrong, I ma loosing this game hand over fist.

I just lost a fleet of 76 ships to his fleet of 60. He just had better ships. I took out two of his 5 starting planets though.

[primitive]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I just lost a fleet of 76 ships to his fleet of 60.

That should take care of your maintanance problem

Seriously, it's very easy to check that your maintanance is all right. Check the initial cost, the maintanance cost (it's there every time you click on the ship) and your bonuses (click on abilities). IIRC; with 110% to maintanace you should pay 15% of initial cost (25% base value - 10 %).

A mistake I often see in KOTH and other games is that people maintain large fleets of old/inferior/usless ships, forgetting that they pay the full cost of the ship in maintanance each 4-7 turns.

[Atrocities]

Thanks primitive, I will keep that in mind for KOTH.

Have you ever run into a KOTH game where one player was boxed in by a super massive black holes?