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Thu, 03 March 2005 14:35 |
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iztok | | Commander | Messages: 1202
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Hi!
PricklyPear wrote on Thu, 03 March 2005 16:47 | 1. With NRSE you have a cheap 'scoop' which is very efficient at low warp (for heavy ships) and allows independence for ships operating far away.
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When my race is expanding I don't send pop with "efficient low warp". Most of my ships travel at full speed or not at all. Traveling at w-2 and collecting 10-20 mg fuel for 20 turns to spend gained fuel in single w-9 jump makes no independence.
Quote: | Essentially, what I'm trying to do is not make the FM the best drive until TS-10s come along.
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When my race reaches prop-9 that means the end of the FM. TGD-9 and TGFS-9 are much better engines for moving heavy stuff. If I've decided to buy IFE then I usually buy also NRSE and wait for IS-10 as my main mover. If I have rams then that's tech-9 TGFS in mid-game and tech-16 TGMS-10 in late.
I don't know where you got the idea FM is so good that can be compared to TS-10. FM is used in expansion phase to move pop. But later it gives too low combat speed to be used in warships, it consumes too much fuel to be used fo moving heavy stuff, it's too expensive to be used in chaff, it can not travel safely at w-10, it generates only low amount of fuel and has too low free speed to be used in far-moving minelayers, etc.
It's actually quite weak engine, so please don't kill its main purpose with so big fuel consumption.
BR, Iztok
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