Brain cases! Seems like there should be another layer of metagame going on. Hiring brains as they keep dieing. Possibly giving them each a portion of money to spend on tradestar troops. It would make more sense every time your brain died, it being a hired merc brain instead... what do you guys think? I'm not asking for mod help, just lure advice.

Also; what do you think of the 1k per site every round? I feel it should depreciate by some decent amount every turn. Feels like turtling is too easy. Replacing the need for mandatory mining.

This kind of topic really belongs in General Game Discussion. I believe there are already several discussions about ideas the same or similar to yours there

Good point. Hey, can a mod please move this to General discussion?