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multilis wrote on Fri, 23 January 2004 09:50

The numbers are actually a little better than you suggest, I won't get into the details. There are also some other variations such as certain 6% 3i, 6% 2i, 7% 2i, etc that have interesting results as well.

And someone else pointed out how he got something like 50K with a -f HE monster. In a real game that would be a QS rather than HQ type race/style (going for early kills rather than monster size by 2450).

Lots of variations, I can't talk about mine till my game is over.

I did quite some testbeds with HE when preparing for one speciall game with about 40 planets per player. Here are my tested designs with some comments. I didn't take NAS as I wanted to have sth. to trade. All tests were performed in the same tiny dense uni.

My basic 3-immune 5% HE design:
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HE
ISB, NRSE, OBRM, RS
pop: 1/1000
fac's: 15/9/23 NO g box
mines: 15/3/19
weap con en cheap; elec normal; prop bio expensive
Constantly gets about 25k res at 2450 in tiny packed, about 22k in dense. Slow until about 2435, then starts rolling. Great at 2460.

Variant 1: 6% 3-immune
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Differences to basic design:
fac's: 14/9/18 NO g box
mines: 12/3/18
weap con cheap; en normal; prop elec bio expensive

Quite better start (about 10.8% growth), but 20% less capacity and minerals. About 32k in dense. I'd recommend it in more competitive universe.

Variant 2:
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6% 2-immune, temp full width -1 click
Differences to basic design:
fac's: 15/9/21 NO g box
mines: 14/3/18

Only about 1/3 of starting planets are good breeders (over 90%). Still better start than 5-immune, but the same res at 2450. 20% worse at 2460 with average planet size 92%. I'd rather play with 5% race then with this.

Variant 3:
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7% 2-immune, temp full width -1 click
LSP
fac's: 12/9/17 NO g box
mines: 12/3/17
weap con cheap; en normal; prop elec bio expensive

Too much pop, hence LSP. Average growth in tiny dense was about 11.5% ('ve ru
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