infrastructure

Anyone play PDX's new release of Stellaris yet? The way they use "Energy Points" makes a fantastic example of successfully doing what several players here have been suggesting for a while to do with currently near-useless "Faction Points." That is; re-name them something like Resource Points...

At the moment, Faction Points can be accumulated and lost indefinitely, with plenty of new Faction Points (FP) being created and destroyed constantly. When a faction has negative FP, their Homebase becomes vulnerable. This system is extremely simple, and not very dynamic. It relies on just...

Infrastructure vulnerability in Starmade Fuel is a generic concept for a system that gives ships upkeep and maintenance relative to their potential agency. Since the best marker of potential agency is power, fuel must be the price of power. How jealously do nations with aspirations of military...