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Best 2450 Resource Count Sun, 12 January 2003 03:53 Go to previous message
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Registered: December 2002
Location: Murray, KY - USA
I never could make a "25k by 2450" race, so my testbed was designed to give me the best possible chance of succeeding. Here's what I did.

Game Parameters:
Small (packed) Galaxy
Accelerated BBS play
Maximum Minerals

Race Parameters:
PRT: JOAT
LRT: IFE, NRSE, OBRM, NAS
Gravity: .69 - 4.40
Temperature: Immune
Radiation: 41 - 85
Growth: 18%
Population Efficiency: 1100
Factory Settings: 12/8/16 (-1 germanium to build)
Mine Settings: 10/3/15
Research Settings: All 75% extra

Default Production Que:
Max factories up to 200
Max mines up to 200
Max terraform up to 100%

By 2434 I had 57 planets and 16k resources; resource count was improving by 2k per year and rising. I was bored with it by this time, so I just cycled thru the turns from 2434 until 2450 with the default production ques on every planet. I ended at 2450 with 70k resources and the following techs: EN4, W16, P10, C7, EL4, B4. I know I could have done much better if I'd kept on micromanaging until 2450, and done a little less without the max minerals setting.

On my second run with an 17% IT (basically the same parameters otherwise) I didn't select the max minerals setting; my planet choices seem much lousier and as luck would have it most of the planets available to me are very germanium poor (my homeworld started with only 30 concentration), yet it doesn't seem to be making a huge difference except I have much more micromanagement to do. I'm currently at 2437 with 15k resources, certain that 25k will be easily surpassed, and bored again. Laughing

Anyone else care to brag about your testbed successes? Very Happy And how about some modification suggestions for multiplayer gameplay?



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