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By looking at the top 200 empires by wealth it is now at the point where all 200 have over 2 bil or more on hand. Currently 38 empires have over 10 billion on hand, 12 of them having over 20 billion. The big wars needed to use up this cash just arn't happening. As a lvl 11 myself that makes alot of cash i really only spend cash on mechs and buying dp. Even when filling all 5 of my empires dp caps up weekly i still have insane amounts of cash left over. I'm just wondering if anyone else thinks new money sinks are needed in neveron. It could be new kinds of items to waste money on or even new expenses. Maybe when classes are done more people can just start nuking the hell out of each other.

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Wow, really big empires (= like lvl 10+) having too much Nevcash on hand - and no way to spend and or redistribute all the surplus? . 'Poor' suckers! [Hey, just kidding ].

One easy 'fix' one can think off: simply drop even more AI pirates on the really, really rich and really, really big empires - and all the combined additional losses in military hardware, etc. should help to soak up quite a lot of the surplus Nevcash, some minor drawbacks though: even more lag for all of us and of course even less of the affordable, good light and or medium training Mechs at the marketplace, because the really big guys would need even more replacements .


How about a slightly different approach, you know, like new, big and expensive toys for the really big empires?

For example, how about Advanced Technology Complexes (ATCs)? E.g. with say 10 times the research capacity of a TC? - and of course expensive to build and maintain too (= Nevcash sink)?

Or how about extremely efficient Star League era laboratories (DP only special (you know, to help encourage an implementation), and of course extremely expensive to maintain (lots of Nevcash for retooling required)), like specialized labs which could help speed up research within specific subbranches of the reseach tree (e.g. fusion engine tech comes to mind, or how about advanced (= lvl 2 BT weapons) inner sphere weapons labs (IS Gauss Rifle, IS ER-PPC, IS Ultra-AutoCannons, etc.)?


Or ...

... how about extremely advanced Clan Tech era laboratories (of course an expensive DP only special (you know, to help encourage an implementation), and of course extremely expensive to maintain too (lots of Nevcash for retooling required)), like a specialized clantech weapons lab or a specialized clantech fusion engine lab (XL engines)?


Basically the really big empires, like lvl 10+, could spend more DPs on research - you know, either by donating more or by buying up some more DPs with their vast surplus Nevcash reserves -, getting much faster results in return (= bringing back some fun when it comes to the extremely time consuming Mech research projects, like medium or even heavy Mech research).