| Re: AR designs - post your best here!! |
Sun, 11 September 2005 08:53   |
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| crr65536 wrote on Sun, 11 September 2005 14:22 |
This race would not lose population due to the RHRS - it is Radiation immune.
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Whoops, good point. I was talking in general terms, and forgot we were talking about a rad immune race (normally I wouldn't take rad immune, because it's usually such an easy field to terraform.)
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Additionally, once any race has con 7-8 (needed for Super Fuel X-ports) it seems like the FM is not needed for rapid transportation. I believe the question is about earlier in the game.
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I disagree. FM vs QJ5 is 306 (360*.85) vs 900 fuel ratio tavelling at warp 9. So you are going to need to provide 3 times as much fuel. So comparing a maximum trip for a FM LF you would need to use two super fuel xports for each of your QJ5 LFs, effectively doubling the IR cost and 1.5x the resource cost per kt shipped.
Less of an issue once you have decent prop, but you have to consider if the early resources would have been better spent on improving the economy.
It's a double hit - to expand at speed you need more tech and to get it earlier, and then you'll still need to spend significantly more resources to maintain the same expansion rate. You have to question if the points saved by not taking IFE are really worth it (especially if you then don't take NRSE...)
Personally I've played it both ways and I've come to the conclusion that yes, you *can* play AR without IFE (I won a game without it) but it's NOT an easy choice and I doubt I'll do it again.
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