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Uh. Leaving instaforming alone and tweaking the TT cost won't do much to the race. A friend and I once had a series of duels to determine which CA was better, a CA TT, or a just a CA with wider habs. I was able to make the TT perform better, but not by much (performance is subjective here, we took tech and mins into account). I was always killing him in the end game with TT25 and 30, ofc. However, up to that point it wasn't an eye popping difference, just better. The normal CA was still *way* better than a normal factory race, IMO.

Further, since a plain CA never needs to go past Bio 4... you can take Bio expnsive and concentrate on getting war techs. Scoops and RS are a natural fit for CA's, and you can pump out gatable Beam BB's fairly early. It's a great QS design.

No, I'd eliminate instaforming altogether, and make a special hull for the OA that weighed about 1500 without engines and OA's, but fairly cheap and low tech, so the CA can buy them early. Give it a buttload of fuel and next to no armor. That makes it nearly ungateable for anyone but a IT, and would slow the rate of terraforming to a more appropriate level, and ties it to econ.

my 2 cents
-Matt



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