Bob wrote on Mon, 17 September 2012 16:17]Rad immune would mean researching energy for terraforming...

There are as many methods of play and race design as there are Stars! players, and a few spare

1. -f isn't QS. QS is a different paradigm, where you take 15/8/10 or so factories and build them really quickly.

2. Well, I thought you'd be using Wolv shields on your frigate hordes.

RS is not an option! It's a must have.

You can question that as much as you want, but without RS, you are going to lose.

LittleEddie wrote on Mon, 17 September 2012 18:32

RS is not an option! It's a must have.

You can question that as much as you want, but without RS, you are going to lose.

Hear, hear!

I wouldn't necessarily say that you'd lose without RS, but I would say that it's easily worth 100 RW points.

Bob wrote on Tue, 18 September 2012 20:16]Coyote wrote on Tue, 18 September 2012 01:56

I wouldn't necessarily say that you'd lose without RS, but I would say that it's easily worth 100 RW points.

Where from?
And add in the extra research needed as well - so you need to find the 100 points for that, and either alot MORE economy, or more economy and points for a cheaper tech.

Bob wrote on Tue, 18 September 2012 22:44]What's the point in RS without any shields to start with - Energy isn't on my primary research schedule at the moment.

I wouldn't necessarily say that you'd lose without RS, but I would say that it's easily worth 100 RW points.

Bob wrote on Wed, 19 September 2012 00:32]With CW cheap, rest expensive I'm not researching shields early - I start with the cow, that's it for a long while (of course that is excluding trade/conquest of tech).

RS do look good - with protection, assuming they're not completely disabled in a given round, all through a fight.

But are they worth 100 points on the hab page? And another line of research (or just stick with Cows?)? And losing armour (when I'll have higher armours pretty fast, and no trouble gating it.

If the first attack does not drain the shields completely, it will regenerate 10% of what is left.

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After each round of battle, the shields of surviving ships regenerate by 10% of their original strength, as long as they have not been completely drained. Once the shields on a stack are reduced to zero, they remain at zero for the remainder of the battle.

[mines:] 10/3/10

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[mines:] 10/3/10

To lower the number of mines isn't a good idea. 13 was on the edge. 10 results in mineral shortage early on... probably you will have problems to build bombers.

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[mines:] 10/3/10

To lower the number of mines isn't a good idea. 13 was on the edge. 10 results in mineral shortage early on... probably you will have problems to build bombers.

Altruist wrote on Thu, 20 September 2012 03:51

[XAP

[mines:] 10/3/10

To lower the number of mines isn't a good idea. 13 was on the edge. 10 results in mineral shortage early on... probably you will have problems to build bombers.

I've seen people claim you can get away with 10/3/8.

Under what conditions?

Would change some settings of the race before playing .
1/900 if for a HE Race to expensive the 1/1000 should do .

10/3/13 Mines is a good setting for "normal" races but for a HE -f with only 550 Res. you dont need so much minerals 10/3/8 should do.

MAybe you should think of one more tech cheap and for this not check the 3 at start. So you can faster research the Kon.3 you need for your pop-grow .

ccmaster