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Re: CA Balance

Tue, 13 April 2004 15:56

EDog

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Here's a thought:

Suppose Mass Drivers can "extract minerals from spacedust". What if the minerals must be manually (Waypoint 1) downloaded to the planet for use. Otherwise they remain in the Starbase. Following this procedure, minerals must be uploaded to a driver-bearing starbase (Waypoint 1) and can then be launched in a packet the following turn (Waypoint 0). This would mitigate the benefits somewhat. This means your starbase would have cargo capacity (for minerals) and packets could only be launched from the starbase's mineral pool. Perhaps for PP race the starbase capacity would either be much larger or else PPs could fling minerals without uploading them to the starbase first.

I've actually never thought PPs were particularly weaker than other races. Based on my own experiences, I would have said WM were the weakest race design because they have to win a game in either the CC or BB/DN era, or else they will be Nubians and better economies. I play PP races (usually -f) as a combination of budget JoaT (no special properties) and budget CA (using inexpensive packets for pro- or anti-terraforming).

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		Improving PP - Massdrivers collecting minerals (split from "CA Balance") By: EDog on Mon, 12 April 2004 10:17
		Re: CA Balance By: Kotk on Mon, 12 April 2004 10:32
		Re: CA Balance By: mlaub on Mon, 12 April 2004 10:56
		Re: CA Balance By: Kotk on Mon, 12 April 2004 11:10
		Re: CA Balance By: iztok on Tue, 13 April 2004 01:29
		Re: CA Balance By: Ptolemy on Tue, 13 April 2004 01:37
		Re: CA Balance By: mazda on Tue, 13 April 2004 06:16
		Re: CA Balance By: Kotk on Tue, 13 April 2004 06:20
		Re: CA Balance By: iztok on Tue, 13 April 2004 08:10
		Re: CA Balance By: multilis on Tue, 13 April 2004 11:17
		Re: CA Balance By: Ptolemy on Tue, 13 April 2004 14:06
		Re: CA Balance By: ForceUser on Tue, 13 April 2004 14:46
		Re: CA Balance By: multilis on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:08
		Re: CA Balance By: Micha on Wed, 09 February 2005 05:37
		Re: CA Balance By: EDog on Tue, 13 April 2004 15:56
		Re: CA Balance By: Ptolemy on Tue, 13 April 2004 16:44
		Re: CA Balance By: Micha on Wed, 09 February 2005 05:54
		Re: Improving PP - Massdrivers collecting minerals (split from "CA Balance") By: Micha on Wed, 09 February 2005 05:25

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