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Re: Robo-super-miner

Tue, 31 October 2006 19:21

c64k

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And keep in mind that for AR races, you can mine on the turn-of-arrival if you have colonized the destination. In the mid and late games, I often send out a colonizer with a couple thousand people to grab any reds that I plan on remote-mining so that I can take advantage of this.

This can be very useful, since the order of events is movement/gating, then mining, and *then* production, so gating in lots of miners will allow you to boost the minerals at a planet for *immediate use* in production, and it also means that you can gate your miners around without losing any turns of mining. That alone makes gateable AR "superbugs" (2 ultras on a midget) a very powerful tool.

As for building strategy, I personally make a dash for maxibots (as AR, you probably already have construction cheap and level 4 electronics isn't that expensive) and use maxis+midgets for most of the early game, but only building as much as necessary (this, of course, varies based on how secure you are with your neighbors) to sustain the economy and some defenses. Depending on whether I'm at peace, I may skip the superbots because usually by then, I'm not too far from the ultrabots. And once I get the ultrabots, I splurge on miner construction and build lots of superbugs. I never use any hull other than the midget miner (as long as you stick a cheap engine like a fuel mizer on your midgets, they just as cost-effective as the big hulls, and since you'll be moving them around mostly by gate anyways, you can afford to use an inexpensive engine.)

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		Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Mon, 16 October 2006 00:46
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 16 October 2006 01:05
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Mon, 16 October 2006 01:08
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 16 October 2006 01:11
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: iztok on Mon, 16 October 2006 01:51
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Mon, 16 October 2006 02:24
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 16 October 2006 02:55
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Mon, 16 October 2006 03:00
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 16 October 2006 03:12
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Mon, 16 October 2006 19:48
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 16 October 2006 20:28
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Tue, 17 October 2006 09:45
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 17 October 2006 11:53
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: knightpraetor on Sat, 28 October 2006 06:47
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Sat, 28 October 2006 15:37
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: c64k on Tue, 31 October 2006 19:21
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 31 October 2006 20:47
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: c64k on Tue, 31 October 2006 20:59
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 31 October 2006 21:17
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Kotk on Wed, 01 November 2006 09:55
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Captain Maim on Wed, 15 November 2006 20:13
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: LEit on Wed, 15 November 2006 21:36
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Captain Maim on Wed, 15 November 2006 23:06
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: c64k on Wed, 15 November 2006 23:37
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Kotk on Thu, 16 November 2006 06:01
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Thu, 16 November 2006 09:08
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Micha on Thu, 16 November 2006 09:20
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Kotk on Thu, 16 November 2006 23:41
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Ptolemy on Fri, 17 November 2006 23:26
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Kotk on Sat, 18 November 2006 12:19
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Ptolemy on Sat, 18 November 2006 12:26
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 19 November 2006 06:08
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Ptolemy on Sun, 19 November 2006 06:50
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 19 November 2006 07:20
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Micha on Mon, 20 November 2006 04:53
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: Kotk on Mon, 20 November 2006 06:41
		Re: Robo-super-miner By: c64k on Thu, 16 November 2006 09:36

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