Anyone tried The Barbarian Horde strategy?

[Steven-n-Donna]

You can get absolute zero mantanence cost by modifying the settings.txt. These setting alow you to adjust the amount in which racial points cost. Example: anything over a 100% of say Defensive only costs 1 racial point each. You can also change it so you can have higher amounts of racial advantages. Like a 200% Attack rating.
Personally, I don't use these, since it makes the game seriously easy unless you go through and modify every other AI and human players' sources.
It takes a bit in the text file to realize what your modifying, just look at the strings, and they are pretty self explainitory.
Steve

[Nitram Draw]

You can also use those characteristic costs in the setting file to make the game harder. In my hotseat games we have put a limit of 15 on the plus side of maintenance. This means that no one can get 0 maintenance, 5% is the least. We have also modified some of the costs also, maintenance cost 200 per 1% increase.

[Lemmy]

i think i'm going to use that strategy in my current game, maybe i'll mix in some dreadnoughts for a diVersion.

My race has acces to all of the racial techs, so i can use the temporal shipyard, and probably will try to fit as many of the most damaging weapon on a light cruiser, or maybe several high damage/low distance weapons.