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Dirty Tricks

Fri, 21 February 2003 17:44

johng316

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Location: Indiana, USA

Most of us don't like to publish any of our dirty little tricks that we use to win games, but I thought I would offer this one in the hopes that others might share a few of their own and I could learn something.

First, I'll say, this is NOT cheating. You still pay 100% of the cost of everything you're building....

I call this dirty trick Production Queue Stuffing.

This is useful in a Public Scores game where you're trying to carefully hide how powerful you are, specifically the number of Capital Ships you have. It's micro-management intensive, but the work can pay off bigtime and can hand you a win if you are patient and use this at the right time. Credit where credit is due: An old Stars! buddy of mine, Farrell Hopkins, came up with this one. Here's how it works:

Start building capital ships at a planet. Move the cap ship down in the queue until it is JUST BARELY incomplete in 1 year. Next year, move the incomplete ship down in the queue, and place another one above, also "programmed" to be JUST BARELY incomplete. Do this for about 10 turns, and you'll have 10 ALMOST COMPLETE capital ships in the queue at one planet. When you are ready to give birth, move the ships to the top of the queue, and they will all complete in one turn. Do this with 50 planets, and your Capital Ship count will go up by 500 in a single turn. This can very quickly shift the balance of power in any game.

This requires incredible patience and willingness to suffer lots of micromanagement. To achieve success, you must manipulate your queue so that there are partially complete ships every turn. Put minelayers ahead, chaff ahead, cruisers ahead, even factories, mines, and defenses ahead of your cap ships. The key is to appear weaker than you actually are (and there are sometimes good diplomatic reasons to do this). Limited usefulness, but boy is it fun to pull this off. Cool

Having fun,

John G

All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

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		Dirty Tricks By: johng316 on Fri, 21 February 2003 17:44
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: yucaf on Fri, 21 February 2003 18:33
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: johng316 on Fri, 21 February 2003 19:04
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: BlueTurbit on Sat, 22 February 2003 11:24
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: yucaf on Sat, 22 February 2003 13:06
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: BlueTurbit on Sat, 22 February 2003 03:08
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: yucaf on Sat, 22 February 2003 11:22
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: johng316 on Tue, 25 February 2003 21:13
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: yucaf on Wed, 26 February 2003 23:06
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: zoid on Thu, 27 February 2003 00:20
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: EDog on Thu, 27 February 2003 00:36
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: yucaf on Thu, 27 February 2003 14:03
		Re: Dirty Tricks By: Micha on Thu, 27 February 2003 19:57

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