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Re: Is HP IT possible? Thu, 19 February 2004 09:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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iztok wrote on Thu, 19 February 2004 12:15


Bad: never ending germ crunch.
In the only game where I played a HP race (OBRM IS 15/8/21g 10/3/21) I've been constantly in germ shortage, despite I got an Alien Miner from the first MT that arrived (and built 3*4000 mines fleets). In the late game I canceled factory building on all new planets (but first 300-400), just to save germ. 've had AMP CPS tech-20-RAM nubians first (and for the long time the only) in that game, BUT boy those ships costed about 150/150/230 of minerals when I built the first, and I was short of germ the whole game! If there wouldn't be an AR ally that has given me quite some germ when I started building those nubs I'd built only about 1200 ('ve had iron and bora for 4000).
A lesson I learned: NO OBRM for HP, and (if possible) mines eff better then 1.
BR, Iztok


Losing OBRM costs me 25% of my economy (10% from lower pop, and the rest from reduced factory settings). If I do that then I may as well use my HG race.

I could reduce the hab range instead, but that defeats the whole idea of this race.

Without remote mining I can still drop colonists on the reds and build normal mines. Besides which, with the high & narrow gravity range I am expecting to inter-settle like mad so there wouldn't be many places for me to remote mine anyway.

I understand what you are saying about mineral crunch, but how much should I let it dictate my race design ?

Has anyone else made an OBRM HP work ?

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