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zoid wrote on Wed, 05 March 2003 22:26 | The bulk of my own multiplayer game experience is as a 3% tri-immune HE. I'm not going to say I think this is the best race. But this is how I myself have come to choose IFE and NOT NRSE.
If you've ever tried a 3% tri-immune HE, you'll know that with such a low growth, you very nearly get more RW points than you can spend. You max out your factories, your pop efficiency, your mines, your tech, and you still have scads of points left. No need to take LRT's for points; you take them LRT's only if you want them. Everyone wants IFE; there's no downside and actually, it's not all that expensive (at least, not when you have a couple hundred or more RW points you're looking to use with everything else already maxed out). Want ISB? Why not? Want Ultimate recycling? Go ahead. The same goes for NAS, OBRM, etc. RW points are not an issue, so one decides on these LRT's purely on their merits. OBRM, you better believe it! NAS? I dunno, maybe. I like pen-scanners and without NAS I can eventually exceed the 560 ly planetary scanner range, so forget it. Want Low Starting Population? Heh, NOT.
So then I look at NRSE, and I figure I have cheap propulsion research, and no gates. The ONLY incentive to take NRSE then since I don't need RW points is the tech 11 warp 10 engine. Considering the cost and mass of non-scoop engines along with everything else, I decide that one engine just isn't worth the trade-off. And I can certainly afford to 'have everything' and choose what other races consider "too expensive an option", because I've sold my soul to the devil - With growth as low as 3%, you don't have to take any OTHER handicaps.
So, there's your answer from a very limited perspective, but a valid one nevertheless. There's at least one instance where RW points are just NO consideration.
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No doubt you are right. No doubt also this is a VERY limited perspective (PRT and even suboptimal race design specific). With HE the Fuel Mizer makes little sense since you get a race-specific great engine from the start. And this 3% gives you so many points you just don't know what to do with them.
Side note: 3% HE won't do any good against competent players. Just too slow. So... RW points are always a consideration. Stars is quite well balanced (some few exceptions) and there is no situation where you can just buy whatever you want and have a really competitive race.
Now a good HE design in a the correct universe size (I would guess Medium in this case) should be able to research the galaxy scoop quite fast, and given the small planetary economy (being halved compared to others), it indeed is a good option since your big ships will need to be quite cheap to be able to build 1 of them per year. I'm little experienced in HE so I just wonder if in the late game if a HE has not essentially won the game, does it matter if he gets the Galaxy Scoop? His enemies are now gathering light Nubians very fast through gates and are going to smash him, aren't they?
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Ramscoops, which one to use?
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By: zoid on Fri, 07 March 2003 05:32
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hey
By: Ron on Fri, 07 March 2003 12:00
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doubt
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Limburger? (Re: doubt)
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Re: Ramscoops, which one to use?
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