Hey all.

I was wondering where or how to find and then alter the maintainence costs? I can't seem to find anything in the XML files that changes maintainence costs. Like "Ship size = huge, maintainence = 10" or something like that. Does anybody know how to increase the maintainence costs by 10x? Then these 2l, 3l, 4k ships per empire will be reduced to 200 - 400 ships, thus saving a hell a lot of processing power. All these ships only have 1 attack point and 0 defense, while in my current game, I'm researching the first level of Invulnerability Shields (best shield tech), and have Arnorian Battle Armor, and Particle Beams. So basically I can just spam ships of my own that are far superior and invincible to the AI's mindless swarms. I'm afraid that willl only make the turn waits even worse, so thats why I don't have hundreds or thousands of ships roving around. Hell, I have a hard time keeping track of 100, let alone 3,000 ships of my own.

Again, if anyone knows how to change the maintainence costs to 10x their value so the AI will only build 1/10 yje amount of ships, please let me know. I'm hoping this will solve the crippling turn wait times. Thanks!