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| Re: AR overpop oddity |
Mon, 17 November 2008 00:35   |
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| magic9mushroom wrote on Mon, 17 November 2008 00:02 |
Are you sure it doesn't hit the scanning rollover though? Remember the whole bug with NAS scanner nubians? That's only at 2k ly ranges, while this is at 4k ly ranges.
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I'm not sure, the most I've put in an AR system was a bit over 20M, which had no trouble. If I had 150M pop, I'd definately be splitting them between several border reds for better overall coverage.
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Well, I think that the new "best intel" race has just been discovered...
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Bear in mind that 1900 ly pen scanning will see a fully-cloaked fleet at a system at 38 ly out, 76 ly out in space; and this requires more pop than any AR is likely to get. It is a very useful trick, to be sure, but you would likely be using it via a few border reds with pops of no more than 10M. By the time you amass 150M spare population, you have probably got the game pretty much won - at least you have made it into the late game, when AR shines.
Then again, I know this will change the way I play AR a bit. I'll be making much more of an effort to stockpile population. Normally I don't bother after I've got a few full systems of pop waiting on freighters, say 10M or so. Keeping a base at 50% pop gives decent breeding rates while still giving 70% of the resources you'd get from a full base, which may be a worthwhile trade for the excess scanning.
Especially if you could sneak a colony mission into the heart of your enemy's empire, and manage to get a DS or US up the first year - a snapshot of all his high-production worlds might be worth losing a batch of your spares. That would require a lot of overcloaking to succeed, though, and if he had pen-scans of the system you'd probably lose the orbital before getting the scan data. Still, if he's the typical NAS-blind type...
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