Scouts costing 1 mnt. ???

Maybe it's just to trick people into not using a lot of them for cheese tactics. I.e. surrounding resources & good planets before you can reach them with colony ships.

~SDC~

yes. People were doing devious things with scouts...and
they were given a maint cost in 1.03

Sensor drones still have no maintenance cost. I guess they occur late enough in the tech tree that folks can't use them to do the same "devious" stuff?

It kinda hurts the early expansion since the AI knows where everything is... and now you have to pay several bc in maintenance to scout the galaxy for habitable planets (moreso on big ol' honkin' maps).

/ds

Get sensors +4 dude... it's fun being able to see everything... may be not worth it, but it sure makes the autosurvey ability a lot more useful.

Scouts, even at 1 BC a turn, are still the bread-and-butter of my cheese sandwich.

Wall of Scouts (WoS) - Surround something with scouts.

WoS a resource to keep enemy constructors at bay.

WoS an enemy starbase to block any upgrades.

WoS a minor race to protect them from the Drengin.

WoS a major race to keep them from launching ships from orbit. (It still works in v3!)

Sure, you pay 8 BC a year for a complete WoS (or less if you want a moving WoS)...But the benefits gained are immense.

- Nobody

Maybe we should be able to pass over a freidly vessel, having the same tile. Some sort of concept of layer would do this perhaps... This stops wall of scouts or elsw.

ds6161,

The maintenance cost for all ships is now placed under the "military" (spending) line of the Expenses (F4 - Domestic) menu.

If you reduce your Mil slider to zero, you will see your ship maintenance cost totals being spent.

~SDC~

Yeah, now players just use Freighters, Transports, and Colony Ships to make zero cost walls/rings.

And in mid to late game, 1 maintenence is nothing. Now, at the start, that 1 maintenence is huge...