Ships buying question

When building a ship and you do not have the technolgy you have to buy it. Is it supposed to cost 10 times as much as the listed price? Is this a bug? Am i missing somthing?

How do i change this?

 

Lol thanks for any help

 

 

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Reply #1 Top

When building a ship and you do not have the technolgy
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Ships that you don't have the required techs for shouldn't show up at all.

Rush buying a ship costs you six times the build cost to the 1.1 power ((cost ^ 1.1) * 6), which generally averages about 9-12x the build cost.

Reply #2 Top

If you have more than 20 thousand BC in your treasury, make sure you rush build something, because you take a major economic hit when your treasury gets that high. For example, i did a test during early-mid game with the Terrans, under 20 thousand i was bringing it about 498 BC/turn. The next turn when i let my treasury stay over 20 thousand BC, it dropped to bringing in -178 BC/turn (No other changes were made to slider settings or anything to cause this difference). Thats a huge difference1!

 

Reply #3 Top

That's because you're comparing net numbers and it's a 20% (racial) penalty to gross.

If you have massive economic bonuses it's not a big deal, but if you're running close to the line anyway, or you're a scoremonger, you will notice it.