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HAH! You noobz thought you had it ALL figured out, but I've got one none of you have thought of:
The Support Elevator: forget the Living Refinery, the Space Elevator can cut your support cost in half!
That's right, you pay HALF SUPPORT at the base that owns The Space Elevator ...
... but only if you're building satellites.
I know, you all have it figured out by now, but I'll explain anyway: what happens is that your mineral output doubles, while your support cost remains the same. This has the effect of halving your support cost, so long as you're building satellites.
This could be exploited directly be homing a huge pack of units to a base that only builds sats, or by setting a recently-conquered base with a massive support burden to satellite production.
This might be indirectly exploited by changing the build order from satellite to something else at some point before the satellite is finished building. The double mineral output after 10 is erased by the build-switch penalty, but you'll still have only paid half the support cost during every turn you were set to satellites.
Now before you go amending the official rules to prevent this awful exploit, realize that the tactic isn't all that practical -- satellites are very cheap relative to the point in the game The Space Elevator becomes available, so the actual usefulness of the "Support Elevator" is limited.
Still it's pretty cool. And you thought everything to find out about this game had already been found out ...
The Support Elevator: forget the Living Refinery, the Space Elevator can cut your support cost in half!
That's right, you pay HALF SUPPORT at the base that owns The Space Elevator ...
... but only if you're building satellites.
I know, you all have it figured out by now, but I'll explain anyway: what happens is that your mineral output doubles, while your support cost remains the same. This has the effect of halving your support cost, so long as you're building satellites.
This could be exploited directly be homing a huge pack of units to a base that only builds sats, or by setting a recently-conquered base with a massive support burden to satellite production.
This might be indirectly exploited by changing the build order from satellite to something else at some point before the satellite is finished building. The double mineral output after 10 is erased by the build-switch penalty, but you'll still have only paid half the support cost during every turn you were set to satellites.
Now before you go amending the official rules to prevent this awful exploit, realize that the tactic isn't all that practical -- satellites are very cheap relative to the point in the game The Space Elevator becomes available, so the actual usefulness of the "Support Elevator" is limited.
Still it's pretty cool. And you thought everything to find out about this game had already been found out ...
...I think this has been mentioned before...
and thanks for bringing it up. 
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