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Re: to PP or not to PP? That is the ...iiiuuuuuuBANG! Sat, 08 March 2003 15:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 I normally play IT, so PP looked like a decent race to use to try something different. I figured if I could hide my PRT until I got good mass drivers, I could pull off a devastating surprise attack. And starting with two planets is a very nice initial boost.

Then I started looking at the guts of mass drivers from the help file, and figuring out how big a warp 17 packet would need to be to take out a system with a warp 10 driver and good defenses. The answer was unpleasantly large, and considering I wanted to be able to do this from just about every system I'd have I didn't think I could pull it off and still have any kind of a fleet built.

The mineral costs look much better with two packets per target world, but when you do that you won't do nearly as much harm. You can keep it up a lot longer mineral-wise, but could you keep your launchers alive long enough to win? Until I think I can answer that with a yes, I won't be playing a PP race.

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