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Re: I need 35 Points

Fri, 26 March 2010 08:38

Dogthinkers

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SS -f is indeed a tough one... SS is a very expensive PRT. Cost is on a par with ISB or IFE, really.

A -f can get away with 10/3/10 mines, if the hab is decent. You might be able to find a few points there.

Seriously consider dropping IFE. Rely on boosters for fast movement, and docks for refueling the boosters (ideally the freighters themselves shouldn't be taking detours to docks unless it doesn't effect the travel time.)

If you go 10/3/10 and drop IFE, you should have some more points to spend. Put them into habs.

Definitely go with 3.5 cheap techs as a -f SS. -f needs to be able to tech quickly, and 3.5 cheap also helps to exaggerate the SS research (spying) bonus.

Take grav cheap, since you will want to tech to the RamRam early, and this is where your best terraforming will be. Change your habs so you are rad immune, grav narrow, temp wide. This avoids the pop death from the RadRam, and lets you take advantage of the fact planets are denser in the 10-90 clicks grav and temp, than they are in rad.

El should be normal or cheap.

En will probably be expensive, so you can have one of the above as cheap. That WILL hurt in early game, since your shields will suck. The SS cloak comes at en7, you won't want go past that for a while, so it's ok to have this expensive. Later levels you will hope to trade for. If your temp is wide, and grav narrow, then you won't care about temp terraforming - it won't do much anyway.

Any other -f will probably eat you for breakfast. A HG will be a challenge... But your cloaking may carry you through. You're hoping for an HP neighbour, to eat. An AR isn't a bad race to start next to either - eat them or ally with them, to source en tech.

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		Re: I need 35 Points By: Eagle of Fire on Wed, 10 March 2010 15:05
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		Re: I need 35 Points By: Dogthinkers on Fri, 26 March 2010 08:38

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