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Re: Quickstart designs

Fri, 27 August 2004 16:38

Steve1

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Non IFE can work too, but you have to play different, an alternate means to get same sort of expansion. You end up with different set of advantages for the same cost.<snip>

I take your point there, but you didn't mention how you get around the germ shortage. Sad

My post wasn't only about the starting point cost of IFE or even the fact that you might need to build more ships as fuel boosters, but more to the point that each of these extra ships are also using engines that consume germ, whereas the FM doesn't. Very Happy

The DLL7 and AD8 engines consuming 3 germ each is a big problem at such an early stage. You can certainly build more mines to compensate, but those resources are better utilised on building factories if you can. Nod

Goes without saying that the more factories you have, the faster you can build mines and therefore more factories. Thumbsup 2

Then of course there's the whole business of shipping germ to your needy colonies. Exhaust all your early HW stocks and there's not enough to fuel some decent growth in your empire.
Quite a serious compounding effect IMO. Sick

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