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| Marduk wrote on Fri, 28 February 2003 18:46 |
Radiation immunity is demonstrably superior to the other two varieties - I started a thread on the newsgroup about it a year or so ago, and some fine fellow did extensive testing. Rad immunity gives you around 10% more initial greens than the other two. It is true that your terraforming generally suffers a delay since weapon tech is more urgent, but even given that rad immune ends up about the same in the midgame and gives you more benefit once you do get to max terraforming.
The best argument for grav immunity is that it allows you to end your prop research sooner with no ill effects. Since this race is already going to go for higher levels of prop tech, that's not a valid argument here.
One more thing - the Rad-Ram is close to comparable to the Fuel Mizer, and CE makes it a better match. Less fuel at warps five, six and seven than the Mizer, and it is half the mass of the next scoop up. It costs about the same as the Mizer, with less iron and more germ. Free travel at your maximum reliable speed is convenient. Not an engine for every ship, but it does have a use.
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I would make a big case against the Rad-Ram for freighters. It uses around double the fuel a fuel mizer does at warp 8 and 9. Double the fuel is unacceptable... I need to be able to maintain warps 8-9 when colonizing planets. It's still _much_ faster than going warp 6 if you get a stall or 2 on a long journey. On bombers I'd consider it, free travel at warp 6 with bombers is probably acceptable. Those early bombers won't need any fuel exports. But then it doesn't matter what my habs are. 
I'm not sure about rad immunity... it seems like a good idea, yet that terriforming will bite me fairly quickly. I could move prop to normal and change energy to norm as well, that would allow me to more easily get the temp terriform tech and better shields to serve along with RS. That is something I will definatly consider..
I looked through the newsgroup and found some discussions but nothi
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Re: The Barbarian Hoard
By: Marduk on Fri, 28 February 2003 00:59 |
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Re: The Barbarian Hoard (rad immune?)
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