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Re: CA Balance Mon, 05 January 2004 22:28 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I wonder if anyone can create a monster CA with the following handicaps:
Can take no IFE or ISB
Must take MA and NRSE AND set Propulsion to Expensive.

That should take away the early expansion advantages of a CA. Twisted Evil


Except for the MA, I won a game <easily> using a CA TT w/IFE and expensive prop. In retrospect, I think I could have had better results without IFE and w/NRSE. (the first and last time I played a CA, just see if they were actually as powerful as I have always claimed. Game ended 2499, I had 313K/3600 cap ships/at war from Y20+/it was a advanced player game/I took 1 ally, and regretted it, as I could have killed him and had his planets also.).

I just looked up the race design I used vs a redesign based on your thoughts, and I could easily make it work (hmmm...). I could change my original 1 in 12 starting hab to a 1 in 6 at best, <if> I spent the bonus bucks all in hab... Meaning, I'd have <alot> more initially green planets within a specified radius, therefore reducing the need to have IFE. I think this would work quite well. As to the MA, I'd just drop the mine eff I had, down by 1 notch, something I was going to do anyway. Smile

-Matt

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