| Re: AR designs - post your best here!! |
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| Kotk wrote on Thu, 08 September 2005 17:10 |
Yep AR has to get to planets first. What prevents it? In my testbeds it is usually lack of early ironium. IFE does not help against it. 
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How about the cost of the FM? Consider that the greater warp 9 range means you have your ships cycling back from the frontier much earlier. Therefore you reuse your ships far faster. This means you need to build fewer to keep your worlds at 33% or less. this translates into a FAR larger savings (as a percentage of resources used for early ship construction) in proportion to the LRT's cost. IMO, IFE always unless you're HE, IT (sometimes), JoaT (sometimes), or IS (sometimes).
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ISB sure helps since you can build pintas/fuelers from your other colonies. 
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That and you grow better than w/ a fort and WAY cheaper than a SB.
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ARM (~70 points) gives you 20 more initial mines. Alternatively bugs can be scrapped for 2 more pintas. So it is also something like solution. Investment into HW concentrations (50 points give +13 +13 +38) seems to help somewhat more in my tests. Best is to have both of course. 
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The 2 potato bugs are worth the equivalent of 20 mines? I was not aware of that. That makes ARM more appealing than I thought, if so. I would probably invest in surface minerals over concentrations. I find short term minerals is more important to AR than long term.
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As for gateability ... non-ARM miner weights 324kT. It is very gateable. Best to keep them intact is to have normal prop for 300/500 gates early enough and also to avoid taking NAS. 
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Yeah, I thought of that too late--completele brain fart. I used such a strategy in a game within the last 2 years and ended the game in 2nd, but with the largest fleet in the universe. 
For what it's worth, you can't gate those miners more than once IIRC. After that, they really need to rest. ARM allows you to mineral balance for maximal efficiency (produce ONLY the minerals you need and leaving no extras for your opponents to steal).
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