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Re: IT alliance benefits

Tue, 19 July 2005 03:42

Micha

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crr65536 wrote on Mon, 18 July 2005 21:52

I was aware of IT's weaker packet abilities, however I consider that rather minor since as I understand it no one uses packets for attack unless they're basically guaranteed to work anyways, and for internal mineral transportation IT can use it's gating cargo ability just fine. Certainly IT's "weak packets" is not nearly as weakening as "no gates" or "no minelayers". Moreover, the packet weakness is not really something that an ally can help with, so it doesn't change IT's diplomacy situation. Thus, as I see it, an IT's allying prospects with another race is based solely on what the other race has to offer.

You're right about the packets, it's a very poor penalty for the advantage you get for instant pop and mineral transport. Besides you'll never try to kill a planet with a packet when the massdriver is still up, if your target is IT or not, in general you won't have enough minerals to make it cost efficient. Defenses are what matter more against packet attacks, so actually WM is the PRT most vulnarable to them ...

But note that although the IT defense against packets is not really weakend, his attack is since he'll need more minerals than other races. Packets cost more minerals for IT and he needs even more since they decay more ... but as said that's a small penalty to pay for such a strong PRT as IT, besides nobody has it so easy to gather all that bor laying around, so it won't be that hard to scratch together those few extra minerals.

mch

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