skoormit wrote on Mon, 26 May 2014 14:44

Theory based on further findings:

Stars rounds down each year when applying credit for partially completed items.
The rounding is down to an integer % complete.

For example, if you finish 999 resources of a 1000 resource item, stars gives you credit for 99%, not 99.9%. You'll have to spend 10 resources the next year, not 1.

In other words, for multiyear builds, you lose an average of 0.5% of the cost of the item for each year other than the year of completion.

This is a pretty significant find! Is there any test that could falsify it? Is this universal for ships or planetary as well as orbitals? Has anyone found previous documentation? If it holds true we should put it in the must know section.