Currently, 3 authorities have this modifier:
Hive Minds: -25%
Megacorps: +50%
Machine Empires: +100%
However, with the bureaucrat system, not empire needs to ever go over their admin cap regardless of size. Producing admin cap is cheap, so everyone is very close to their cap at all times, making these 3 modifiers that are intended to shape empires, wholly useless.
It can likely be seen that Machine and Hive admin cap jobs reflect these intentions - machines have a high output coordinator and high sprawl penalty, hives have the reverse. But because the penalty is never relevant, hives end up with the most expensive admin cap and machines get by far the most efficient admin cap job / building, producing 144 cap from a single building late game. (Hives,meanwhile, can push out 40, while despicable regular empires push 50 out of 5 jobs in 1 building.)
I don't know what to do about this, but it seems like there's a few pieces of the puzzle still floating around to get this just right.
(Also, megacorps don't need the penalty anymore: just directly increase the sprawl from branch offices if you want to be concerned about that.)
Hive Minds: -25%
Megacorps: +50%
Machine Empires: +100%
However, with the bureaucrat system, not empire needs to ever go over their admin cap regardless of size. Producing admin cap is cheap, so everyone is very close to their cap at all times, making these 3 modifiers that are intended to shape empires, wholly useless.
It can likely be seen that Machine and Hive admin cap jobs reflect these intentions - machines have a high output coordinator and high sprawl penalty, hives have the reverse. But because the penalty is never relevant, hives end up with the most expensive admin cap and machines get by far the most efficient admin cap job / building, producing 144 cap from a single building late game. (Hives,meanwhile, can push out 40, while despicable regular empires push 50 out of 5 jobs in 1 building.)
I don't know what to do about this, but it seems like there's a few pieces of the puzzle still floating around to get this just right.
(Also, megacorps don't need the penalty anymore: just directly increase the sprawl from branch offices if you want to be concerned about that.)
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