| No LRT's? Am I mad? |
Sun, 22 December 2002 12:01  |
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While trying to perfect an IT race I came upon the thought of a race without ANY LRT's.
I came to wonder which LRT's to take for my race...
At first I thought IFE as we all do, but why? I already have the Daddy Long legs which though useless at warp 8 and 9 it saves me having to build fuel pods and super fuels to support large transports/colonisers.
next came NRSE - but (again) why? for what purpose would I pick this? The common answer is "to offset the cost of IFE and allow early warp10 engine" - but I didn't take IFE and I have stargates, my need for high warp ships is far lower than anyone else.
ORBM - This was probably the only one I would have honestly taken for gain. The increased pop is always helpful. But I'm an IT race, so those heavy miners are actually very useful and can be used very effectively.
ARM - Why would I want light gateable miners when I can have HUGE heavy gateable miners? Wasted points so not taken.
ISB - very handy, but not essential. Space dock is good, very good, but can be lived without and the 80 or so points saved could be put into a higher growth rate.
TT - 9 times out of 10 it's too expensive and not worth it. This is one of those times.
UR, MA, BET, LSP - oh god no.
CE - no chance. Why give myself access to so many engines when they wont work?
NAS - handy but I like pen scanners, can be lived without but I still like them.
RS - Again I was tempted, but decided not to.
Final specs....
IT
17% growth
0.55 to 4.16g
-80 to 136c
16mr to 70mr
1 in 5 habitable.
only changes in economy are
16 facts for 10,000 people
and 17 mines for 10,000 people.
Weapons normal
prop + construction cheap
rest expensive
Now thats withoutany LRT's.
If I was to take any I would have taken NAS, ORBM and RS.
With the additional points I would have increase econmy to 23 mines for 10,000people and make weapons cheap while increasing hab ranges to
0.44g to 4.16g
-96c to 136c
16mr to 74mr.
But then wheres the fun? A race without any LRT's is a wonderful thing when you consider that they give up nothing and as such create no holes in their play. A race without LRT's is a race that can be adaptive to a change in situation.
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