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Re: Ramscoops, which one to use? Fri, 02 May 2003 22:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Paladin wrote on Fri, 02 May 2003 09:11

NRSE provides too many points.

Laughing In my humble opinion it doesn't offer anywhere near enough to make up for the handicaps, in most cases. And anytime I try to take it, I don't get any points to put where I want, because then I think...

"With this LRT I really need IFE". There goes all the points I got for NRSE, and then some. Sad

So now I think "Gee, now I have even less points, I guess I could go with expensive propulsion research to get some points back. Either that or cheap engi..." (That thought is vetoed before it's finished.) So, add another expensive tech field. Now I have propulsion research costing me 75% extra. Sad

After doing that, I think, "Man, trying to get my gravity terraforming maxed is going to be a nightmare, but if I don't my habs are going to be crap! I better take gravity immunity." There go all my points again. Crying or Very Sad

I find NRSE defining my whole race and eliminating choices, not giving me any, and in the end what do I have? A race that spends LOTS of extra resources and minerals on EVERY ship featuring bulky and expensive engines that are dead in space if I run out of fuel, relying too much on the FM engine throughout the game, with gravity immunity just like everyone else (when radiation immunity gives better hab results for the same points), and I have less points wherever I originally had wanted to put them. Evil or Very Mad

I really hate that LRT.

Rolling Eyes Then again, maybe "hate" is too strong a word, a word that I should reserve for the "cheap engines" LRT. I know lots of people like it at least for some applications, but every time I tried it I simply couldn't stand the fleets not moving 9 times out of 10. (I know it's a 1/10 chance but I seem to have real bad luck with it.) Trying to exceed warp 6 most often results in longer transit times than if I had just resigned myself to a warp 6 speed limit in the first place. That's just... MADDENING! Crazy



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