Morale?

[wascalwywabbit]

Jan 28, 2016 22:28:39 GMT -5 ntsheep said:

Jan 28, 2016 22:20:05 GMT -5 Officer Genious said:

#elwoodpsfordictator2809!

Do you plan on abdicating the throne my Queen? You're the only ruler I'll except.

Don't you mean accept? In context, accept vs except, they're nigh opuesto - opposites.

[ntsheep]

Thanks wascalwywabbit. One thing I hate about the English language, to many words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

[wascalwywabbit]

Jan 29, 2016 0:00:35 GMT -5 ntsheep said:

Thanks wascalwywabbit . One thing I hate about the English language, to many words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

Yeah like their, they're and there.

There there, its ok, English is not anyone's first language... We're all still learning it - my native tongue is loneliness or manic depressive qualia ... or well, I know it's definitely not English.

[acecow]

Awesome thread, does anyone know how morale below 7 affects a colony's maintenance cost?
Where does Clan Zenrin's faction bonus factor in?
Is the maintenance increase a linear function?
If so, what's the start point?

Questions everywhere!

Edit: I also forgot that good morale reduces maintenance cost, I suppose I could try to play around and watch the empire maintenance % myself, but if anyone knows~

[Cory Trese]

Morale 1: 40% compounded Maintenance
Morale 2: 35% compounded Maintenance
Morale 3: 30% compounded Maintenance
Morale 4: 25% compounded Maintenance
Morale 5: 20% compounded Maintenance
Morale 6: 10% compounded Maintenance
Morale 7: 0% compounded Maintenance
Morale 8: -10% compounded Maintenance
Morale 9: -15% compounded Maintenance
Morale 10: -20% compounded Maintenance

The game is balanced such that average morale 7 is fully survivable. This allows you to abuse Quality to a certain degree.

However, Quality overruns cost additional Maintenance and can drop Morale as low as 6. So there is a need there for careful management and Spice Festivals.

I have some substantially over-quality worlds in my Empire (10 too many buildings) that function just fine if they're carefully cared for. Be aware, however, that the rules fully cover this scenario and you pay a scaling increase in Maintenance penalty for every 1% over Quality you go, so a 10 point Quality overrun on a 32 Quality planet generates about 30.5% Maintenance penalty.

[acecow]

Feb 20, 2016 13:00:08 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Morale 1: 40% compounded Maintenance
Morale 2: 35% compounded Maintenance
Morale 3: 30% compounded Maintenance
Morale 4: 25% compounded Maintenance
Morale 5: 20% compounded Maintenance
Morale 6: 10% compounded Maintenance
Morale 7: 0% compounded Maintenance
Morale 8: -10% compounded Maintenance
Morale 9: -15% compounded Maintenance
Morale 10: -20% compounded Maintenance

The game is balanced such that average morale 7 is fully survivable. This allows you to abuse Quality to a certain degree.

However, Quality overruns cost additional Maintenance and can drop Morale as low as 6. So there is a need there for careful management and Spice Festivals.

I have some substantially over-quality worlds in my Empire (10 too many buildings) that function just fine if they're carefully cared for. Be aware, however, that the rules fully cover this scenario and you pay a scaling increase in Maintenance penalty for every 1% over Quality you go, so a 10 point Quality overrun on a 32 Quality planet generates about 30.5% Maintenance penalty.

Ahh, that's quite interesting. Would love to see how I can work that into some of my strategy...
Clan Zenrin...I suppose going into that would be more going into the code of what determines morale loss...and tbh, I don't want to go there right now. I suppose...

Thanks for the info Cory!