Base balance and other such matters

[AeternusDoleo]

In response to an earlier question: Gallic fuel is Promethene yes. Not sure if Deuterium at 5 a run is meant to be - that stuff's expensive. Although with the shields doing an autoshutdown, having enough fuel should not be that hard...

I like how forcing a shield to raise prevents docking at that base. Makes it able for attackers to take safe docking to a base out of the equasion (at the expense of having to deal with the base defenses I suppose).

@Hidamari: That heavy mortar tactic could prove quite tedious considering the regenerative abilities of bases, and the fact that you need to chew through over 8M hitpoints for a level 1 base... a properly supplied base would bore an attacker to death before you'd boom the base. However, setting the shield auto shutdown time by a configurable parameter would let the players balance fuel economy versus base survivability. Personally I'd set it at around 1 minute - guaranteed to bore anyone doign the mortar tactic into giving up, and still efficient enough to not use too much excess fuel.

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