| AR and Smart Bombing |
Wed, 17 January 2007 17:02  |
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 Iconian |
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In this thread a discussion started about how AR colonizers need to have a planet’s population killed off before they can colonize it. First,
| Dogthinkers wrote |
| mazda wrote on Wed, 17 January 2007 00:11 |
| gible wrote on Sat, 13 January 2007 03:36 |
AR viral bombing happens between fleet battles and meeting the MT.
If you are also using 'regular' bombs on the same planet then the viral bombing does not occur
The presense and activity of other players bombers does not have this affect.
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So if the bombers don't clear it then it won't get colonised ?
That's probably worth knowing, for an AR.
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The really significant part here, is that AR races can't use combinations of conventional bombers and coloniser-bombers to clear worlds quickly. If they want the colonisers to bomb, the conventional bombers actually have to leave orbit
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Then,
| Kotk wrote |
Why so lot about that viral bombing?
AR colonizer bombers are actually not so cost-effective, especially in ironium and germanium terms. Somehow it feels better to use traditional bombers. The colonizers have some qualities but lets see...
Preserve installations.
Have better fuel.
Have lighter weight.
48 colonizers can have LF of cargo space.
Pop is not dying when travelling in quantities of 22kT.
But why should AR care about installations; its not that expensive to have SFX and LF with; the minibombers also dont die too lot when overgating and for pop not dying ... who wants to MM split/merge them colonizers each turn to have that tiny effect?
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I responded that Kotk is right, except possibly in the case of a low growth AR, which would be harder hit by 3% losses in an LF. Travel time would also factor in as well.
There's already been a lot of discussion about how smart bombs are generally useless, and now we're also hearing that viral bombing is next to useless as well? This got me wondering that's entirely true. Maybe AR bombers and smart bombs could be useful for something. How about in an alliance? The smarts
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Yeah, bread too.
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