Planet Sizes/Mothership Massing Capability
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:37 am
As it stands right now, a mothership can attack a planet up to 10x its fleet strenght and not be destroyed.
Therefore you can mass a planet that has 10 or less of your fleet strenght.
That is completely unfair! Some people might say that it costs more to increase your mothership than your planets defense, but thats a lie.
Here are a few calculations:
If you have 10 planets, all above average, and you want to put 150 bilion defense on each, it will cost you 50,000 stations on each. That is 500,000 stations, at the price of 50,000,000 per station. The total naquadah requiered to defend those planets, if they are ONLY above average (most planets worth defending are already higher sizes) is 25 TRILION!
So you would think after investing 25 TRILION naq into your planets defenses, they would be safe right?
WRONG!
To build a MS capable of stealing such a planet, you would need about 35,000 fleet, which would give you a total of around 17 Bilion. How would would that cost? Cost: 6,125,174,990,000 Naquadah
This is completely unfair. After spending days, weeks, months, possibly even years to invest 25 TRILION into defense, to have them taken away by someone who invested 25% the naq you have!
My solution? Planet sizes/Mothership massing capabilities.
This is the formula I propose
Your Planet Size /// How many times smaller the fleet can be and survive
edit (new numbers from Zeratul)
tiny /// 10
very small /// 9
small /// 8.25
below average /// 7.5
normal /// 6.75
above average /// 6
large /// 5.25
huge /// 4.5
monsterious /// 3.75
mind blowing /// 3
Therefore, if you have a tiny planet, and 30 milion defense on it, a fleet of 3 milion can mass it, however, 2.9 or lower, and it becomes destroyed.
If you have a mind blowing planet, the fleet must be no less than 3x the size of the planet or it gets destroyed destroyed.
The numbers can be rewamped, this is just a consept I am proposing.
Questions/Concerns/Comments
Therefore you can mass a planet that has 10 or less of your fleet strenght.
That is completely unfair! Some people might say that it costs more to increase your mothership than your planets defense, but thats a lie.
Here are a few calculations:
If you have 10 planets, all above average, and you want to put 150 bilion defense on each, it will cost you 50,000 stations on each. That is 500,000 stations, at the price of 50,000,000 per station. The total naquadah requiered to defend those planets, if they are ONLY above average (most planets worth defending are already higher sizes) is 25 TRILION!
So you would think after investing 25 TRILION naq into your planets defenses, they would be safe right?
WRONG!
To build a MS capable of stealing such a planet, you would need about 35,000 fleet, which would give you a total of around 17 Bilion. How would would that cost? Cost: 6,125,174,990,000 Naquadah
This is completely unfair. After spending days, weeks, months, possibly even years to invest 25 TRILION into defense, to have them taken away by someone who invested 25% the naq you have!
My solution? Planet sizes/Mothership massing capabilities.
This is the formula I propose
Your Planet Size /// How many times smaller the fleet can be and survive
edit (new numbers from Zeratul)
tiny /// 10
very small /// 9
small /// 8.25
below average /// 7.5
normal /// 6.75
above average /// 6
large /// 5.25
huge /// 4.5
monsterious /// 3.75
mind blowing /// 3
Therefore, if you have a tiny planet, and 30 milion defense on it, a fleet of 3 milion can mass it, however, 2.9 or lower, and it becomes destroyed.
If you have a mind blowing planet, the fleet must be no less than 3x the size of the planet or it gets destroyed destroyed.
The numbers can be rewamped, this is just a consept I am proposing.
Questions/Concerns/Comments
