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Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech

Thu, 09 August 2007 16:05

BunBun vonWhiskers

Crewman 3rd Class

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Registered: August 2007

Hello folks! Been playing Stars! For a while on the computer since 1994, and only recently found out that there is a message board here. Lots of good stuff to go through, and lots of ideas here for me to chew on, but I have a question to start, apologies if it has been covered before.

When I colonize a world, there is a chance I will find an artifact that gives me research tech resources. Does anyone know what the exact odds are of getting that tech boost, how much you get on average, and is it affected by any variables (habitability range, population dropped, pre-existing tech level, etc.)?

Basically I wanted to know if it might be economically viable at some point to go �fishing for tech� by building cheap colonizers, putting one hundred colonists each on them, and having them colonize nearby worlds. I guess you could also use this to �scout� planets to a limited extent, but the problems with that is 1 ship = 1 planet scouted, assuming it lands.

Still, I was thinking that if you have an HE race with Cheap Engines, there might be some viable way to build a bunch Spore Clouds and sent them out with some token colonists to get your research chance. If you get that chance each time you colonize a new planet, even if the colonists are all going to die because of habitability issues, there might be some overall benefit.

And if you try it with a tri-immune AR race, you could also have the awesome population efficiency of a 100 colonist world every time! Rolling Eyes

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		Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: BunBun vonWhiskers on Thu, 09 August 2007 16:05
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: iztok on Thu, 09 August 2007 18:17
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: ccmaster on Thu, 09 August 2007 19:28
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: BunBun vonWhiskers on Fri, 10 August 2007 12:44
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: velvetthroat57 on Fri, 10 August 2007 15:44
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: BunBun vonWhiskers on Fri, 10 August 2007 17:03
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: Soobie on Sat, 11 August 2007 00:41
		Re: Hello, Colonization, and Fishing for Tech By: bigcanuknaz on Sat, 11 August 2007 20:17

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