Realistically moons should definitely impose a much lower deuterium cost. No organization in real life would habitually launch from a planet's surface if they had the ability to construct and launch ships from orbit.

(For what it's worth, my rank is around 100, and I have no moon.)

(For what it's worth my rank can be seen below, and at this level if you're NOT launching from a moon then you probably just built ships or moved your stockpile down to your planet to build something, realism should only be taken so far)

athight wrote:realism should only be taken so far)

Your argument only applies to circumstances where increased realism imposes a cost which outweighs the benefit. But when the cost of increased realism is a single term in an equation calculated by computer, why would anyone object besides the person who has to program the change? Or do you imagine that new players will be so badly inconvenienced by the deuterium cost for launching from on-planet that they would cease playing altogether? I wouldn't have cared if all my deuterium costs had been doubled, let alone increased by merely a small constant factor.

Not everyone plays Zorg Empire for the same reasons.