| Re: The Altai - an IS race |
Tue, 22 August 2006 03:20   |
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 Marduk |
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| JasonC wrote on Tue, 22 August 2006 00:45 |
There is a point late in all games when resources are a drug to factory using races. They become mineral constrained, they can't use their resources. This doesn't happen to -f races, which generally remain resource constrained throughout.
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I'm with Matt in this as well. The last -f IS I played had 10/3/20 mines and still suffered from a mineral shortage. I started in a corner and had to fight my way out while my eventual rival (a full-blown HP) grew largely unopposed for the first 50 years. Despite this I was often number one in resources and was tech leader after about 10 years. When you have four times as many systems as an HP (after terraforming, every system vs one-in-four) and get about 40% of the per-world resources (2200 vs about 5500 for a 100% system), you have 60% more in total.
With HPs and HGs, I find I'm most often G-constrained and next most often resource constrained. Developing systems are building factories instead of contributing resources, and can ship their minerals back to older worlds. -f races can spend nearly all their resources on ships and mineral shipments are precise adjustments instead of wholesale waste management.
When you occupy every system in your space, you are getting a lot of mineral-less worlds. The lower hab races do more cherry-picking and also frequently remote mine the better uninhabitable systems. I've found that having four times as many systems gives me on average about 25% more minerals; luck of the draw is a major factor, of course, but most of the minerals in any given region of space come from relatively few worlds. They will be making every effort to tap those rich worlds whether or not they can live there. 60% more resources and 25% more minerals means mineral constaints.
Just out of curiosity, would someone with access to large volumes of system information care to do an analysis of mineral distribution? That is, in any given sample where each system is represented by a single number (the total miner
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