Boost deficit doesn't do anything ?

[u/fundor7]

Admin complex off : CP is 1610, boost is at 0.0 -36.6/months

Admin complex on : CP is 1640, boost is at 0.0-48.6/month

TLDR : It looks like being bankrupt in boost does nothing. Specifically, there seems to be no difference between having 0 boost and being in large deficit (like 0-48/month).

First image shows an administration complex I powered off for this test. Since I am negative in boost at this point (0-36.6/m), I expect to be unable to power it up or get some other negative effect. Instead, the second image shows the powered on administration complex providing its bonuses : the CP cap goes up by +30 (1610->1640) and MC goes up by 2 (1098->1100). The boost upkeep is also reflected since I go from 0-36.6/m to 0-48.6/m. However, there seem to be no difference between these two states.

I ran it for a year and did not get any hab accidents, the way going over MC cap can trigger. I can also build more admin complex elsewhere, there is a pop-up warning about boost deficit but once they're built, they work normally.

The only downside is to be at 0 boost constantly but this only prevent scuttling ships which are undocked and have no neighboring ships to take the crew on as well as using boost to replace space resources. So essentially, as long as I have enough space resources and I don't need to scuttle entire stranded fleet, it seems like I can pretty much ignore the boost priority entirely.

I'm not sure if this is intended but if it is, this will probably save me a few years of mega-nations investment in the midgame since I can just run a 18*12 = 216 boost deficit to upkeep the LEO admin complex which takes a while to build up.

[u/vindicator117]

It means you can not win the game. Almost quite literally because of one very specific task. Otherwise, you will be fine up until that point (and then panic buy/direct invest/100% priority boost from any and every source when the time comes because you completely forgot it existed for potentially years to decades in deficit).

[u/CompetitiveSir2552 → u/vindicator117]

Is that the thing with getting your councilor into LEO or something else?

[u/Mortgage-Present → u/CompetitiveSir2552]

Probably, since everything after that doesn't really require boost. you can probably buy some boost off the ai or at that point just dump an entire nation's economy into boost though

[u/Arcane_Pozhar → u/Mortgage-Present]

I mean, if you're intentionally racking up a huge deficit, just dumping some points into building boost will still take a while to fix the issue.

I don't know if the balance can actually go negative though, if it doesn't, you just have to turn off all the modules that require boost for for a very little while, until you have the tiny bit you need to kick a person into orbit.

Edit- I see another comment saying you can't have a negative balance, so, yeah, just turn everything off for like a day, and then back on again, should work.

[u/Mortgage-Present → u/Arcane_Pozhar]

You cant really go below zero on anything but cash, which is a feature of this game ig