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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).

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easy, have morale bonuses for handing cash out to your faction for faction leaders (but negative morale for buying stuff and recieving money) This can be justified by having the FL empire's populace feel good for helping out allies, and feel crappy when they get charity or have to buy off of other empires.
Bring this into effect for all FL's over level 9 or something similiar, and you have a money sharing method. Well, it's the best I could come up with.

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hummmm how about the ability to design new vehicles/mechs?........ 1 + bil to design...... but then they still have to research it

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your sensors need to be more powerfull then the ecm of your opponent. if you want to spot a stealth tower, it is not important how much ECM you got. in low level landwars, ecm is in general not important for the attacker. you have to get into LOS of your enemy anyways, so you will be spoted.

in high lvl LW ECM can be important, if you want to hide a part of your force from IDF towers. but as mechs are more difficult to hide, you'll probably need a raven.

defenders do usualy have more troops in their zones, and they are wider spread, not as close together as attacking forces usually are. for them a high ECM can be quite usefull.

get a SFT-X, (or XLR) if you can not afford a mech with decent sensors. as long the price of a twac seems to expensive for you, you don't need one anyway.

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Increased the maximum benefit of remaining stationary when detecting enemy units. If both you and the enemy are stationary, you may now get up to 4x effective sensor power by remaining stationary for very long periods of time. The maximum benefit begins to take effect after both parties have not moved for a number of turns equal to 6x your base sensor power rating. This extra power does not replace the previous benefit of +1 effective power rating per turn up double your base power rating. That fast sensor improvement still occurs, however there is now additional benefit to remaining still for very long periods of time.

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I personally don't think 2 billion dollars is an enormous amount of cash for a level 10+. I mean, look at the mech market, a AWS-Q can go for a good 800 million. When an IMP drops it's about a cool 1 billion. When those large empires get attacked by pirates and they lose 1 or 2 good mechs, it could run them a couple of billion to replace them off the normal market. Hell, replacing a company of assault tanks could run you a billion.

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You people that are calling for a money sink for larger empires have no idea how much it costs to war at those levels. That's not even factoring the costs of replacing battalions of vehicles every time pirates hit...

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actually, i do have a very good idea. I better, or else I need to get rid of my lvl 8.

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Regards,
Klavis

"Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men..."

- T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

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Newbies use promo code " I love chocolate " when starting a new empire

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lol, you must be dumb as hell dude. Get ready to for War cause I'm pretty sure Tigre might come after you. He hates ppl who promote their promo coes in public and people such as you.

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Another idea (again, one that only becomes meaninful for larger empires, so only they incurr the expense) is tower upgrades. Large empires have thousands of sensor and other towers. How about a cost-based upgrade feature for towers? Once you've researched 1000's of RP on sensor upgrades, why not allow players to spend a billion or two to auto-upgrade all of those towers? If you're a lvl 5, free-bee sensor towers are adequate. If your're a lvl 10+, upgrading those ass-kicking CF150 towers (that are now required to withstand the onslaught of a fellow big-boy lvl 10+ empire) would be a HUGE benefit, even with a large cost. Basic ECM starts at 2000. If you're going to research these things, spending a billion or 2 to upgrade ALL of your towers that are within your empire would be a significant benefit, and of course a significant money-sink that all of Neveron needs to prevent runaway inflation...

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