Here's another suggestion: reduce the cost of idling while ACS defending a player.
It's a bit annoying that moving ships from a planet to the moon, or to the debris fields cost just a bit of resources, and idling the ships on another planet costs much much more. While they need to consume deuterium, since they are somehow “orbiting” around a planet and ready for battle, the current amount is just immense.
I know (unless I'm mistaken) they currently consume a tenth of the base consumption of a ship (i.e., battlecruiser base consumption 250 deuterium => idling 25 per hour), and I'm not proposing anything particular, just that it could be greatly reduced.
Just as an example
Moving 100.000 battlecruisers from a planet to a moon at 100% = 14.315 deuterium
Moving 100.000 battlecruisers from a planet to a moon at 10% = 4.322 deuterium
ACS defending a moon with 100.000 battlecruisers for 1h (just the idling, the travel costs don't count) = 2.500.000 deuterium
This is just a huge difference, while the last one is barely moving, just staying idle in a planet.
Any thoughts?
It's a bit annoying that moving ships from a planet to the moon, or to the debris fields cost just a bit of resources, and idling the ships on another planet costs much much more. While they need to consume deuterium, since they are somehow “orbiting” around a planet and ready for battle, the current amount is just immense.
I know (unless I'm mistaken) they currently consume a tenth of the base consumption of a ship (i.e., battlecruiser base consumption 250 deuterium => idling 25 per hour), and I'm not proposing anything particular, just that it could be greatly reduced.
Just as an example
Moving 100.000 battlecruisers from a planet to a moon at 100% = 14.315 deuterium
Moving 100.000 battlecruisers from a planet to a moon at 10% = 4.322 deuterium
ACS defending a moon with 100.000 battlecruisers for 1h (just the idling, the travel costs don't count) = 2.500.000 deuterium
This is just a huge difference, while the last one is barely moving, just staying idle in a planet.
Any thoughts?