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icon5.gif  why is CA so bad? Thu, 24 April 2014 22:43 Go to next message
iloverushandledzepp is currently offline iloverushandledzepp

 
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so far i have experience only in CA, why is it banned in most games and not tri-immune? are there any games that don't ban CA? what if i want to use CA but have it quite limited? i recall bystander helping me make one

take a look for yourself.

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if all comes to worse i do have a few new friends to use CA against



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Re: why is CA so bad? Fri, 25 April 2014 03:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It isn't bad.. well, perhaps for other races,it is.

The CA is banned because it's considered to be overpowered.



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Re: why is CA so bad? Fri, 25 April 2014 04:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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iloverushandledzepp wrote on Fri, 25 April 2014 12:43
so far i have experience only in CA, why is it banned in most games and not tri-immune?


Because CAs are far more powerful than tri-immune races. A tri-immune race must take low growth rates to get back points; a TT CA can take bad habs (thus GAINING points) along with a 19-20% growth rate and then become effectively tri-immune anyway by researching Biotech to high levels. Or they can just take the same settings as any other econ race and then outgrow them because of instaforming. Simply put, the CA resource curve is so much better than anybody else's (testbed records for CA typically show twice or more resources than those of the econ PRTs, never mind the war PRTs!) that they're deemed overpowered and banned.

Using CA against your newbie friends is probably not very honourable. I did it once and regretted it, as they all quit after they saw my resources exceeding all of theirs combined and constructing fleets to match their entire warfleet in a single turn.


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Re: why is CA so bad? Fri, 25 April 2014 13:12 Go to previous message
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I see, Ty. My new friends are pros lol


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