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Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ?

Tue, 05 July 2011 10:02

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magic9mushroom wrote on Tue, 05 July 2011 02:08

Void wrote on Tue, 05 July 2011 01:54

mlaub wrote on Mon, 20 December 2010 11:50

You might try throwing up a gate at a red world as step in between.

From a pure colonisation perspective, if you're a -f IT and have taken ISB, then throwing up a quick dock is even faster.

Gate decreases travel time => more pop growth => larger monster => Win! Yey

Generally speaking, yes, I agree wholeheartedly!

Specific situations do exist, however, where it's more effective to take an alternate approach. Consider an IT looking to colonise a planet ~400ly away. It's early game and you're looking to get a stake in the enemy's territory quickly. Being early game, you want to send 50k colonists. You could take the gate approach, which would take 10 years:

3 years @ warp 9 to get to a planet half way there
4 years to build a gate
3 years @ warp 9 to get to the destination

Or you could take the dock approach, which would get you there in 8 years. Instead of building a fort with a 250ly gate, you build an empty dock in two years, after which the fleet is refueled and you're on your way. Now, you do need an extra coloniser for this (a Santa Maria works fine for the first colonisation).

Unless you take enough pop to build the gate in a single year (~144k if memory serves), then the dock approach is faster.

Is this a very specific scenario? Absolutely. And I'd want to get actual gates up at both planets ASAP for the reasons you mentioned. This way just gets me that distant planet a little faster.

Cheers,
Void ...

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		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: mlaub on Mon, 20 December 2010 14:50
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: slimdrag00n on Tue, 21 December 2010 01:39
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: Void on Mon, 04 July 2011 11:54
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 05 July 2011 05:08
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: Void on Tue, 05 July 2011 10:02
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 05 July 2011 18:07
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: Void on Tue, 05 July 2011 18:52
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: Void on Wed, 06 July 2011 12:16
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: magic9mushroom on Thu, 07 July 2011 03:54
		Re: IT without Fuel Mizer, IFE ? By: Void on Thu, 07 July 2011 08:01
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