[Sugestion] new planet upgrade

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What do you guys think about a new planet upgrade that:

Is called: Administrative Facility

Cost: Roughly the same as the Capital Planet upgrade

Effect 1: Acts like a Capital Planet as far as allegiance is concerned
Effect 2: Decreases credit income by 1-5 a second (on faster game speed)
Possible 3rd Effect: decreases ship and structure build time by 20%

This will help large empires improve allegiance on far off planets while having a slight trade off

 

Also if Stardock wanted to they might add a few more planet specialization upgrades like

Construction: Faster build speeds maybe a small construction cost decrease

Defense: More tactical slots possibly some grav well buffs for you fleet and more planets hp

Economy: Either more logistic slots, more population or just more resource income

Diplomacy: Envoys here get relationship faster and can get more (like 3 instead of 1.5) and you get a culture bonus

Tech: Each of these planets count as one of each lab and increases research speed slightly

Archeology:  As time goes on you have a chance to discover an artifact till one is discovered once one is discovered anyone can find it with the normal explore upgrade

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I would say No to the first suggestion because as this would make the economy of other empires, namely the TEC, off the charts.  The economic GAIN of the species are relatively balanced, but when you factor in the abilities and cost per dps of ships this changes to favor the vasari and TEC in the early game (the most important phase of the game).  The long term advent economy depends entirely upon this allegiance bonus, and therefore shouldn't be available to every other race as it would only serve to marginalize the advent to the benefit of the other races being played. 

Other planet upgrade ideas are good and definitely worth considering!  The archeaology upgrade is an interesting one, I feel that the developers could do some more with this.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

If you have a large enough empire that it would be worth getting Administrative Facility filling up your planets with trade ports should net you alot more then taxes even with all planets at 110% allegiance.

Also when I was coming up with planet specializations I was thinking a max of one at a time per planet but you can choose what you want.

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