Fwurg

[RemcoSwenker]

• Fleet upkeep costs.
  Military Fleet Upkeep
  
  • Base upkeep: 75 per
    
  • Upgrades 1,2,3: +25 per
    
  • Upgrades 4,5,6: +50 per
    
  • Upgrades 7,8,9: +100 per
  These rules lead to the following upkeep table:
  
  • 0 upgrades: 75 per
    
  • 1 upgrades: 100 per
    
  • 2 upgrades: 125 per
    
  • 3 upgrades: 150 per
    
  • 4 upgrades: 200 per
    
  • 5 upgrades: 250 per
    
  • 6 upgrades: 300 per
    
  • 7 upgrades: 400 per
    
  • 8 upgrades: 500 per
    
  • 9 upgrades: 600 per
  
  
• Combat Ability: This characteristic boosts armies with +●●, this is too good. We should change this to +● so it is equivalent with half an upgrade.
  
• Armies: We propose to increase the upkeep of armies to 25 per . This puts them neatly at the same level as the first 3 fleet upgrades with regard to upkeep. This way, factions that just created a fleet directly have the interesting choice of upgrading the fleet, or building an army; this has fluff consequences.
  
• Piracy Patrol: Piracy patrol can be done at any level of readiness it patrols the sector that the fleet is in and all the zones next to it. It keeps these zones free of piracy for 2 . Because this stretches your supply lines quite a bit this manoeuvre costs +150 per .
  
• Piracy: Happens in all sectors but they stay away from inhabited systems because pirates are very economical: if the risk is greater than the reward, they're gone. Outpost and smaller places are subject to piracy as they are not scary enough to keep the pirates away.

[Brend]

I have update the Piracy Patrol operation to be in line with the other operations. Yesterday, I missed the fact that you thought that it should keep the sectors clear of pirates for 2 , which was not the plan. Not only would this increase the amount of bookkeeping by a rather unfunny amount, the 'cooldown' should be on the things affected (outposts, space habitats) not on the fleet.

[Brend]

I've done everything except writing the piracy page. I'll get to that after lunch. Done!

I've written the Piracy page!

[Stuiter]

If we introduce piracy patrol in the Union, we need a Union agreement on which fleet patrols which as it is expensive.