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Re: Cool HE

Mon, 08 January 2007 20:18

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Coyote wrote on Mon, 08 January 2007 19:37

I posted this in another thread that mentioned this -- cost 9 mines is a very bad idea. Doubly so with HE, since you don't have much in the way of resources. Once you burn through your initial pile of Germanium your economy will hit a severe and long-lasting mineral shortage. Better to have cost 3 mines and worse efficiency - mines with 10 eff and 3 cost are equivalent to mines with 9 cost and 30 efficiency.

Well, that's not quite accurate, as you aren't taking into account mineral depletion - a smaller number of better mines will get you more minerals *total* out of a world than a large number of worse mines. The interesting bit is determining the break even point where the more efficient race catches up in terms of total minerals extracted as compared to a less efficient version with the same RW points spend in mining.

Of course higher efficency costs many more RW points than you gain from increasing cost per mine, for this very reason Wink

I still agree with you in that cost 9 is a bad idea - reducing cost per mine is so cheap right down to cost 3 that I find it very hard to justify even cost 4 or cost 5.

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