| Re: New ranked game: Landrush (beginner) |
Mon, 17 May 2004 07:29   |
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 Carn |
 | Officer Cadet 4th Year |
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| multilis wrote on Sat, 15 May 2004 03:43 |
You got most but not all that come to mind from my limited experiance.
Strange as it may seem, in rare situations it may be more efficient to build a few before getting tech for better.
Later of course (when slots get tighter) the few built would be quickly scrapped, as would things like medium transports with non-fuel mizer engines.
'Always' is a dangerous word, 'almost always' is safer.
[edited to add example]
lets pretend you are a warmonger with const non-cheap and not up to 3 who started near an IT secondary world. You also have a nearby super-green planet. IT says 'friend, lets trade tech!'
You figure out it is more cost effective to build factories/mines and trade for the const 3-4 while using small freighters (likely with fuel tank) to ship early over 25% pop to your nearby colony. Later when you have privateers, your small freighter still ships germ to the nearby colony.
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In that situation SFs are likely to be better choice, than researching MFs, but this would still depend on how fast the IT can/will send scrappers, luck on scrapping, distance of high green, min conc on HW and pop growth. SFs cost far more germ than MFs, i think before building something like 14 SFs(needed if new planet more than 1 year away), its far better to research con 3 and save a lot of germ, that way you could end up with more factories, because of saved germ(especially on low germ HW).
Execption is of course expensive con tech and not tech3 checked and HP, but i think that combination is already a mistake.
Ok, convinced nearly always its better to research MFs before using SFs. But those special cases where SFs are good, are realy special and it would require lot of calculation to be certain, that SFs are realy a choice, so for newbies like me, i think an "always" rule is better, than spending several hours during early turns to decide, if SFs make sense.
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