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Re: Remote Mining with Vengance.

Wed, 27 August 2003 16:27

alexdstewart

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freakyboy wrote on Wed, 27 August 2003 15:12

Just an idea but have you thought about using CA for your -fm model?

the reason for this suggestion is the free terraforming and the total reversion when you get taken over...

Your planets are either building a starbase, ships or defenses... bar the odd planetary scanner you'll other wise be contributing 100% to tech while stille having all your worlds terraformed - you also start with level 6 in bio which means you only have to pump resources into energy then you can start with some simple minefields for defenses.

Also since your hab will most likely be always centered then your enemy will have a tough time living on your planet once they take it (thus reducing the effectiveness of defenses they build) which makes it easier to reconquer and use what they have made for you.
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The whole idea of -fm was to have an economic model that could take on CA monsters and have a good chance to win. I ain't using CA to kill CA if only for aestetic reasons. Mad

But seriously CA's are the brute force approach, and they do have their disadvantages:
*Need to reseach Bio,- it will cost you whopping 140 pts to get bio normal from 3.5 tech cheap.
*Lack special abilities
*Many people are simply paranoid about them
It is true that a well designed -f can compete with HG's but that's it, I need guile combined with strength, not just brute force. Also -fm CA gets less of the benifit from wide hab, and you can't really improve the other stats, you can inc benifit from conquest, but that's a minimal improovement, cause brute force won't give you planets easily.
IT can distribute its pop and attack fleets effectively, making attacks practicly irresistable.
IS can defend better and overflow planets, making them econ stronger than even CA, +toys
WM can produce warfleets that kill many more than their mineral cost.
SS utilize most from elec cheap and become very nasty very quickly.

To put it simply, CA lacks the skills req to survive as as -fm race. It's success depends on tech level, having minig AND pop res depend on tech is to put too many eggs in one basket. In my opinion to have a forkable -f or -fm race is to be able to restrict each race to about 10k res and therefore low tech levels, terraforming and low tech don't go togethers very well.

In the Future there is only WAR...
Therefore our extinction is assured, it is just a matter of where and when.

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		Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Fri, 01 August 2003 20:28
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Fri, 01 August 2003 20:33
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: LEit on Sat, 02 August 2003 11:04
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: LEit on Sat, 02 August 2003 11:07
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: vonboy on Sun, 14 September 2003 15:51
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 14 September 2003 20:24
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Mon, 15 September 2003 04:50
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Mon, 15 September 2003 13:58
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 15 September 2003 14:57
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Hatterson on Sat, 02 August 2003 20:23
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Sat, 02 August 2003 22:40
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Sat, 02 August 2003 23:01
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Sun, 03 August 2003 00:13
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Hatterson on Mon, 04 August 2003 14:24
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Mon, 04 August 2003 20:08
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Mon, 04 August 2003 21:06
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Sat, 02 August 2003 23:54
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Sun, 03 August 2003 00:10
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Sun, 03 August 2003 00:45
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Sun, 03 August 2003 01:24
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Mon, 04 August 2003 20:46
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Mon, 04 August 2003 21:08
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Mon, 04 August 2003 21:51
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Tue, 05 August 2003 01:00
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Tue, 05 August 2003 07:08
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sinla on Tue, 05 August 2003 08:15
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Tue, 05 August 2003 02:48
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Tue, 05 August 2003 19:41
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Wed, 06 August 2003 00:13
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Coyote on Wed, 06 August 2003 00:33
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 06 August 2003 19:12
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Wed, 06 August 2003 03:03
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 06 August 2003 19:52
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Thu, 07 August 2003 05:06
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sinla on Thu, 07 August 2003 07:11
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Raindancer on Thu, 07 August 2003 08:06
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Raindancer on Wed, 06 August 2003 21:43
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Tue, 05 August 2003 21:51
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 06 August 2003 19:16
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: xdude on Wed, 06 August 2003 20:34
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 06 August 2003 20:54
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Deuce on Wed, 06 August 2003 20:59
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Wed, 06 August 2003 21:13
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 06 August 2003 21:53
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Wed, 06 August 2003 23:07
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: vonboy on Thu, 07 August 2003 09:48
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Thu, 07 August 2003 14:21
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Thu, 07 August 2003 17:54
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Tue, 12 August 2003 05:04
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Tue, 12 August 2003 05:33
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Wed, 13 August 2003 02:04
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 27 August 2003 15:14
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Hatterson on Wed, 13 August 2003 10:28
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Wed, 13 August 2003 13:19
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 27 August 2003 12:02
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Hatterson on Wed, 27 August 2003 13:30
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 27 August 2003 15:02
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Wed, 27 August 2003 15:12
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 27 August 2003 15:49
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Wed, 27 August 2003 17:52
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Thu, 28 August 2003 11:46
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Thu, 28 August 2003 16:01
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Thu, 28 August 2003 16:56
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Thu, 28 August 2003 18:57
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Madman on Wed, 26 November 2003 05:03
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Wed, 27 August 2003 16:27
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Wed, 27 August 2003 19:40
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Wed, 27 August 2003 13:47
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Fri, 29 August 2003 00:29
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Fri, 29 August 2003 02:24
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: regiss on Fri, 29 August 2003 04:47
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Fri, 29 August 2003 14:29
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Fri, 29 August 2003 15:06
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Sat, 30 August 2003 15:05
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Fri, 29 August 2003 10:07
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Sun, 31 August 2003 09:23
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Sun, 31 August 2003 14:33
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Sun, 31 August 2003 18:57
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Sun, 31 August 2003 22:26
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Mon, 01 September 2003 10:18
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: freakyboy on Mon, 01 September 2003 11:08
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Mon, 01 September 2003 14:04
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Thu, 04 September 2003 23:52
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Sotek on Fri, 05 September 2003 00:44
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: iztok on Fri, 05 September 2003 01:43
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: Kotk on Wed, 10 September 2003 10:01
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: alexdstewart on Fri, 05 September 2003 00:10
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: boneandrew on Wed, 26 November 2003 13:24
		Re: Remote Mining with Vengance. By: LEit on Wed, 26 November 2003 13:42

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