 Re: RWIAB IIa Game Review |
Tue, 06 April 2004 20:39   |
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 Jethro |
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RWIaB II A: Comments/Replies/Miscellaneous: More stuff from Polanie
I am aware that temperature of emotions has cooled down but it does not hurt to read this, does it?
Scott/The Armagons
Comments:
You were indeed very lucky. The Oks protected you well and the Loranians put off my forces along with the Desquis'; from launching an early onslaught (AR has a great potential of growth).
Effectiveness of packets
Stars! shows how many people died in a message. Sometimes it says 'all people were killed' then you do not even know if any people died at all. Effectiveness depends on mass and speed of the packet. Destination planet can have a mass driver which reduces effectiveness. Handy calculation on that is available in Stars! Calculator. You can find the most effective warp for packet there. As far as I know the only way to increase damage is multipacketing i.e. multiple packets hitting a planet the same game year. Certainly, Paul is the expert here 
On chaff
Why frigate chaff? => more fuel. On higher levels of Con scout and frigate hulls have comparable costs. Frigate hull has more fuel capacity. The problem is that it also has more armor - as a result it may have lower missile attractiveness than ships it is to protect. Replacing X-ray with a more costly beam weapon raises its attractiveness. Stars! Calculator has a section on calculating the attractiveness. I am not sure whether it provides correct results.
Paul/The Oks
Comments:
Kudos to your engagement in all details of the play. You were very determined to win and you succeeded (even though I am not sure how did you manage that with such low mining setting). You were my inspiration for constant improvement. I learnt some useful designs and tactics. At one point in the game I thought my win was very close, only to find how was I mistaken later. It is my fault that I tend to believe in what people say/write... now I know - another step up! Was it not for (very) early onslaught the Loranians had launched on my possessions it would be much harder to cut me down to size. All in all however, I believe that your win was fully deserved. I mean it. Looking forward to meeting you in other game as an enemy or an ally...
Damon/The Loranians
100% scan of my space
You got me. I plainly was not even considering that with Joat embedded scanning ability, espionage ships could have hoped to stay hidden for long. My misconception. The same goes to Paul.
'Gotta be aggressive'
Gotta have decent tech. I was not waiting for Godot rather for Battleship hull. Your battleships were flying around so I had to have them too. I was getting most techs from the Desquis scrappers but were unfortunate with Con. When I finally got it I waited for IS-10 and at that point I decided to wait a couple of years more to have Mega Disruptors instead of Heavy Blasters.
Tying force in the East in last years
Well, you perceive this as a nice success which augments further your greatness. It is not so simple unfortunately - the Oks had a big advantage and adding the ever-growing Armagons to their side combined my and Desquis forces could have not hoped to do much. So instead of staying home and doing nothing I set forth to avenge my colonies which you had destroyed in the East.
A little philosophical argument...
First, I did not like to accept your 'if I wasn't going to win, neither were the Polanie' attitude. Don't you believe in peaceful, harmonious coexistence? Because of people, Stars! turned into dog-eat-dog game where preemptive wars are the only wars waged. The maxim 'If I do not kill him now he will kill me later' seems to prevail. Why oh why we are so brutal .
Comments:
I am still amazed that it is possible to wage an all-out war in 2425. My 'sloppiness' was of course due to newbie syndrome (my first online game). Too much play with AI where all the defense matters of an empire are not important. You were my tutor throughout the game, especially in the beginning, as Paul was gaining this role in the second part of the game.
About the Desquis
The Desquis commander changed about 5 times (I guess the order was: Wynand->Theuns->Wynand->Theuns->Wynand->Mike) . Fragmentary of Desquis leadership results in the lack of inclusive post. Inevitably, this also impaired the performance.
Implications for the future:
I did not start a single war, yet I had wars with all the remaining players but the Desquis! I seems I was the only innocent lamb, and I was surrounded by hungry wolves. I am kidding here, but I just did not realize how much Stars! was about war-fighting. And that I had such a warmongering neighbor all along...
Only the paranoid survive! (Intel's motto and now mine also:)).
[Updated on: Tue, 06 April 2004 20:56]
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