Please explain no maintenance....

[Jason2]

I've been reading Posts that refer to no-maintenance empires. How do you gain this and still make your race playable? Maintenance seems to cost so much... am I missing some special racial trait??

Just curious.

Thanx.

J

[Suicide Junkie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I've been reading Posts that refer to no-maintenance empires. How do you gain this and still make your race playable? Maintenance seems to cost so much... am I missing some special racial trait??<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You do have to make sacrifices, just decide how much it is worth to you!

You could probably get away with reducing your resource aptitude a bit to get the points, since you won't be paying maintenance after all.

[Lisif Deoral]

BTW, this is going to be changed in next patch - there will be a minimum maintenance of 5% per turn. I think that's good, since no maintenance was a bit unbalancing in multiplayer games (you could stockpile really huge fleets and conduct long campaigns...)