posted on February 19th, 2014, 3:43 am
I've been trying to think of an answer, but here's something: It should be possible to create a resource giving special that grants resources, maybe just supply or maybe minerals as well, then subtracts some of them for every ship that the player owns. If the fleet was big enough, it would end up reducing the player's resources instead. It could either be an automatic ability every few minutes, or something the player activates.
so for example, if every player gained supply slowly, automatically, but every ship drained supply a tiny amount so players with no fleet would go back to getting supply while massive fleets would get harder and harder to build new ships because eventually your supply would continue to drain back to zero.
Of course, this system would utterly break the current supply balance between races like the Borg and Dominion and the others, and it would have to be completely redone with a lot of careful decisions.
