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Martydi

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So, private military companies. A civic for corporate government. Utterly useless. Great opportunity wasted.

Luckily, I am here to advice!

Currently, it raises army damage by 20% and reduces army upkeep by 20%. Good idea, but just like hive mind's strength of legions, with how irrelevant and cheap to spam armies are, its not really good. Quite useless actually. Double so that megacorps do not have a genocidal gameplay, unlike hives.

Here's the new idea. Instead of just giving army bonuses, get private military companies as yet another gameplay changing civic. How it would work, is simple: Turn the megacorporation into a private military megacorporation! Basically, allow megacorps with this civic to put their fleets, armies, admirals and generals for hire. Essentialy, players will set a price, and then other empires will be able to pay the price in order to temporarily be able to use the hired fleet or leader. Just like the mercenaries of marauder empires you can hire, now players can also sell out mercenaries to other nations. Is your war with neighboring fanatic purifier going poorly? Lacking alloys to properly reinforce? Contact the Blue Sky Commerce Pact now to hire a warfleet, only 1000 energy credits payment up front! Call now to recieve an admiral for free and a discount on your next mercenary purchase!
 
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Not only should you be able to "rent out" fleets to other empires, but it may also be good to build and sell ships to other empires - for a price (like a greater payment in alloys?). And would be a unique feature to this megacorp, unlike the mercenary bit which is shared with Marauders.

But I like the idea, and it makes sense given its name.