New races-maintenance reduction

[Mephisto]

There is some point in your comment about all the TDM-Races using the same traits. There are just certain limitations that leave us modders no choice in order to create a competitive AI: The AI is not that good in handling ships. It just cannot foresee where it will need the ships in the next turns so in essence the AI just needs more ships so at least some of them are near the place the AI needs them. Further, the AI is quite bad in managing resources (in effect, it doesn’t manage them altogether ). All to often the AI cripples itself in the first few turns by running out of resources. Therefore, you are just forced to reduce the maintenance.
Further, a human player can easily train his ships and gains 40% better defense and attack values. The Ai doesn’t do this most of the time. And it can’t use the stealth armor (it will use the cloaking device instead). As a modder you are nearly forced to give them a racial defense bonus.
You see, there are many reasons why we modders do certain things and that these reasons might not be very obvious. Of course we could do completely other races but the would be let by the AI into their graves only.