RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[T-hawk]

Anyone else find this odd? I always thought corporations got better as the empire gets bigger, your costs go up linearly (and they are significant) but your benefits go up quadratically (more cities with the corp, plus controlling more resources so more benefit per city).

Corp costs actually go up quartically. Cities × resources × size of each city × inflation. The constant factor on the last two is very small so it approaches quadratic. But the benefits are always better than the net costs (the 4x3 gold from the HQ is very important) so more corp power is always to the good (up to like size 40 cities and +150% inflation.) Really the question is whether the corp can make up for its initial costs (GP, executives, spread cash) in a reasonable timeframe; you typically need ~10 resources to make a particular corp viable from that, and also need a positive expectancy vs State Property.

Also, imagining that humans will trade them extra corp resources sounds rather fanciful.

Sullla's not, he's actually arguing against a corp path, in part because of that.