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Re: Resource integral hold for IS?

Sat, 13 October 2012 20:40

Braindead

Officer Cadet 2nd Year

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Maximizing cumulative resources over N turns is not a trivial calculation. The following factors have major contribution to this:
* planet value
* -f vs +f race
* for a +f race, concentration of G, cost of factories and efficiency of mines/factories/pop. Oftentimes, you can get way more resources by dumping a freighter of G on the planet than by optimizing pop growth.
* ships available at the planet (if you have 500k pop and only one privateer, you can't do much. Same if you have a super freighter and 400k pop.)
* overall minerals and resources that you have - can you afford to build more freighters for colonization/distribution of minerals or do you need to use all of your existing ships for this?
* how far into the future are you looking
* number of neighboring planets (it's not practical to only focus on one planet since in a game you would want to optimize your total resources)

In my opinion, optimizing for maximum resources over time is a theoretical exercise, which doesn't have too much application in real games. I've played IS a lot and my rule of thumb these days is to put enough people on the ground to keep up with tech/building and react to what's happening in the game (is anyone sending a huge fleet after you?). The rest is focusing on maximizing population growth. Having hordes of pop available at your disposal will enable you to colonize more planets faster, use your colonists instead of bombers and overall will give you way more benefits than having optimum resource growth. Plus, it will save you a lot of time since you don't need to do silly calculations.

-braindead

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