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| freakyboy wrote on Sun, 19 October 2003 07:03 |
Basically a particular player who is self proclaimed mathematically inept said the following about a -f SS...
"I don't think SS is a great choice for -f designs"
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That would be me, of course.  And as with most things I dare to say (with particular regard to the game of Stars), it may very well be proven false by my betters. But remember, I DID say "I THINK" and "not great" (in other words), expressing only my personal opinion that the SS prt is not the best choice for -f design, rather than stating that it's unworkable as a matter of fact.
I've made a few attempts at a -f SS race in duels against Micha. Micha is a very good player and could easily have played aggressively to destroy me in short order, but he didn't. Micha knew I was testing races and I believe he was playing more of a passive-defense role, just giving me a chance to try a new design against an intelligent player.
My personal experience with the race designs I tried led me to believe that the SS is a poor platform for -f economy in part because of the expensive PRT, but also because the advantages gained by the PRT are not particularly helpful in the earliest critical stage.
I'm not big on -f designs and maybe it's simply a matter of not designing and/or playing them competently. I acknowledge my skill limitations (especially with regard to -f design) render the worth of my own opinions dubious, at best. I do know that it's all about rapid expansion and early conquest to exploit the developmental stage and weakness of other races; the -f SS designs I tried all proved too slow out of the gate to inflict sufficient early harm to the enemy to seal his doom. There were just too few resources and too many places for those resources to go. I spent all my resources on freighters and terraforming to get the economical base I needed to produce the warships, then the research to get the crucial early technologies to make warships, and never really achieved the economical b
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I'M NOT AN EXPERT AND I'M OFTEN PROVEN WRONG. TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU READ MY POSTS.
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