| Re: AR - LSP vs CE; LSP vs GR |
Thu, 21 June 2007 22:14   |
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| joseph wrote on Thu, 21 June 2007 20:10 |
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Fairly sound... Take care not to let any green worlds get over 25% full until there's no other option.
The tricky thing with AR, is finding the compromise between pop growth and resources - if we spread out well, we'll get great resources, but growth will suffer, since pop that could be at breeders, are instead stagnating (or worse) on poor worlds.
I don't have a good answer for this. Depends too much on the situation - how urgently is research needed etc.
In practice, I'll behave much like Joseph described. I'll dump at least 22kt absolutely everywhere (a pinta load.) I'll try to put enough on yellows that they will develop in a reasonable time (although in the early days they are more likely to research, than terraform.) I try to have the rest of the pop spread fairly evenly across all the greens. Once I have a decent spread, I'll let the 90%+ worlds get up to 20-25% capacity, at which point I'll start filling the non-breeders, much like one does with normal races. I suppose the significant difference is really just at the start, where 5% capacity per world looks great, compared to a normal race which would be waiting for breeders to fill to 25%.
ISB works very well with this approach for AR, since it's a long time before you need to keep more than 125,000 pop (25% of the 500,000 that a dock can hold) at any world. Starter colonies work ok for a bit, but even for AR 62,500 isn't really much per world after the first couple of decades.
By the way, to throw a spanner in the works of the whole merits of 16% vs 17% discussion... My current AR race uses a 13% PGR.
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