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Too Costly?

Tue, 28 January 2003 01:33

zoid

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I'm having a lot of fun playing with an SS race right now, and I'm also using one in a duel with Micha. Not that I've DONE anything exclusively SS so far, and he's ahead in the rankings, and he pop-dropped the last beautiful planet I colonized (the big meanie!) Evil or Very Mad

, but still...

He says SS is too costly for what you get, considering anyone can achieve 98% cloaking. He's an expert, or at least far beyond my level of expertise.

But I think the the 75% base cloaking, tech bonuses, the extra hull, cloaking and scanner toys, combined with the minefield movement bonus of one makes it all worthwhile. Additionally, in a two player game, the SS player gets to know precisely where his opponent is investing research and roughly to what degree, aside from getting a nice piece of it himself.

In my testbed game (comprised of every race and LRT necessary to stage ship battles of any design for combat tests) I made all the races as similar as possible in research, habitat, growth and economy, with the exception of adding RS to half the races and leaving the extra points wasted. With 10 races in the testbed, I didn't want to do any expansion MM so I just gave them all identical default production and research ques and generated 100 turns at a time to get the tech levels up. I'm aware that this isn't exactly a fair test, but in the end the SS's maxed out their tech research WAY before anyone else did.

I think the tech bonus in itself is probably almost adequate compensation for the stiff PRT point penalty in itself. And even if anyone can do 98% cloaking, they have to waste lots of minerals and resources building lots of big heavy cloaker ships for their fleets and then you need more SFE's for fuel because the added mass sucks fuel and that adds more uncloaked mass, needing more bulky cloakers, and then in the end you're missing what is only a few points of cloaking (but that can make a HUGE difference in detectability) so you hop from planet to planet hoping you don't blunder into something in orbit which spoils your su ...

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		Too Costly? By: zoid on Tue, 28 January 2003 01:33
		Re: Too Costly? By: regiss on Tue, 28 January 2003 05:10
		Re: Too Costly? By: Micha on Tue, 28 January 2003 14:03
		Re: Too Costly? By: jeffimix on Tue, 28 January 2003 17:56
		Re: Too Costly? By: Micha on Tue, 28 January 2003 18:20
		Re: Too Costly? By: regiss on Tue, 28 January 2003 20:27
		Re: Too Costly? By: gible on Wed, 29 January 2003 04:58
		Re: Too Costly? By: Micha on Wed, 29 January 2003 05:34
		Re: Too Costly? By: freakyboy on Fri, 31 January 2003 16:47
		Re: Too Costly? By: knightpraetor on Wed, 13 February 2008 14:33
		Re: Too Costly? By: LEit on Wed, 13 February 2008 21:49
		Re: Too Costly? By: Ptolemy on Sun, 01 June 2008 00:53
		Re: Too Costly? By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 01 June 2008 05:24
		Re: Too Costly? By: Effluviant Walrus on Tue, 03 June 2008 13:45
		Re: Too Costly? By: LEit on Tue, 03 June 2008 13:59
		Re: Too Costly? By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 04 June 2008 00:19
		Re: Too Costly? By: Soobie on Wed, 04 June 2008 11:15
		Re: Too Costly? By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 04 June 2008 23:33
		Re: Too Costly? By: Soobie on Thu, 19 June 2008 07:54

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