| Re: NAS vs no NAS (split from "What to do ???") |
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| Carn wrote on Sun, 10 October 2004 13:05 |
You have considered the increased cost you have in early en,con and we research due to having prop at 4 and bio, elec at 3?
Getting en6 with @3 costs 980, getting en6 without @3 costs 755 + 263 = 1018 for getting prop from1 to 2 afterwards.
So depending on what techs you need, it might actually slow you down.
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Cost increase? What cost increase? Where are you getting this from? N,W,C, are still cheap. The cost to get to N6,C4 don't change. I fail to see where you're getting this. The only thing that makes sense is that you're playing around w/ slow tech and reading costs incorrectly
@3 makes expensive techs start at 3. It has no affect on anything else. The primary reason to take @ 3, IMO, is for FM w/out research (ie. so you don't take away from researching those first 4-6 levels of N in the first 4 years, and so you can get the first 4 levels of C w/out sacrificing pop growth at all (ie. being able to start moving pop w/ FM privs as soon as you hit 25%, then 33%) to maximize pop growth and spread it fast.
And what it comes down to, you would need to research up to bio 2 before 20 to immediately start using terraforming, which as AR, you WILL need to do. IIRC, it's something like 900 resources to bio 3 if it's expensive. You'll need to spend that much before 30, no matter what. That's a significant chunk of early resources that otherwise would go into energy.
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