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Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid!

Thu, 18 March 2004 08:06

Staz

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I can see this being a big germanium contest.

I doubt there will be (m)any -f races submitted, so everyone will be building factories like mad. If (when) war breaks out, it will make sense to attack your opponent's economy, so taking out G shipments & remote miners and killing factories will be a priority.

The winners will not be the people with the biggest economy race design; they will be the people who manage to get the G mined and distributed most efficently, while losing as little of it to enemy attack as possible.

Also, I'm not sure that early progress will be that much of an indicator of eventual success. Growing fast at the start is important, of course, but it is _sustaining_ that growth that will bring victory. If your resource growth starts massive and then goes linear in the late 2400s then you may find yourself outclassed by someone who started slower but keeps ramping up.

So...everyone will build a nice slow HP, right ? But then you could interpret "slow initial growth" to mean "I'll beat up my HP neighbour quickly, with my HG race, and then grow my economy later".

In other games, you build your economy, race to a certain level of research (Arm BBs or AMP Nubs), build a load of those and then go beat up someone. If your economy is already way bigger than your opponent's then you might as well have a war instead.

In this game, you have to keep on building - assuming you are #1. If you are not on the #1 team then you need to do something to slow #1 down, while continuing to grow yourself.

And then again, what about teams containing a couple of resource monsters and a couple of warfighters. Now you can build and attack at the same time.

I'm talking myself round in circles here Shocked

I think I'll just admit that I don't know how it will play out Embarassed

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		New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Sat, 13 March 2004 15:57
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: alric on Sun, 14 March 2004 07:48
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Sun, 14 March 2004 19:14
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: donjon on Mon, 15 March 2004 08:25
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Ashlyn on Mon, 15 March 2004 08:27
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: LEit on Mon, 15 March 2004 10:00
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Mon, 15 March 2004 10:44
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Tue, 16 March 2004 00:54
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: donjon on Tue, 16 March 2004 05:53
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Tue, 16 March 2004 12:06
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Mon, 15 March 2004 11:16
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Mon, 15 March 2004 19:05
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Tue, 16 March 2004 01:01
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: LEit on Mon, 15 March 2004 11:55
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: ForceUser on Tue, 16 March 2004 11:20
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: LEit on Tue, 16 March 2004 11:28
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 16 March 2004 12:27
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: ForceUser on Tue, 16 March 2004 15:01
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Ozone on Tue, 16 March 2004 16:00
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: mazda on Tue, 16 March 2004 18:50
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 16 March 2004 18:59
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Kotk on Wed, 17 March 2004 08:34
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Wed, 17 March 2004 10:50
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Kotk on Wed, 17 March 2004 12:33
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Wed, 17 March 2004 13:37
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Wed, 17 March 2004 10:55
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Wed, 17 March 2004 15:11
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Ozone on Wed, 17 March 2004 17:48
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Wed, 17 March 2004 23:12
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Wed, 17 March 2004 23:27
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: ForceUser on Thu, 18 March 2004 06:56
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Thu, 18 March 2004 08:06
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: ForceUser on Thu, 18 March 2004 08:50
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Thu, 18 March 2004 10:14
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Thu, 18 March 2004 13:25
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Fri, 19 March 2004 16:00
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hyena on Sun, 21 March 2004 16:07
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Mon, 22 March 2004 14:27
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Mon, 22 March 2004 09:26
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Thu, 25 March 2004 11:23
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Thu, 25 March 2004 11:28
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Thu, 25 March 2004 12:31
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Thu, 25 March 2004 13:02
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Mon, 29 March 2004 10:33
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Mon, 29 March 2004 12:09
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Mon, 29 March 2004 12:53
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: wchart on Mon, 29 March 2004 18:12
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Mon, 29 March 2004 19:24
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Hillel on Mon, 29 March 2004 20:33
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Tue, 30 March 2004 00:59
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 30 March 2004 04:17
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: mazda on Tue, 30 March 2004 04:36
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 30 March 2004 05:31
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Fri, 02 April 2004 15:51
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: wchart on Fri, 02 April 2004 20:26
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 30 March 2004 14:48
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Crusader on Tue, 30 March 2004 16:10
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: Staz on Tue, 30 March 2004 16:25
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: EDog on Wed, 07 April 2004 18:26
		Re: New Game: It's The Economy, Stupid! By: donjon on Wed, 07 April 2004 18:27

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