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| Re: The Shofixti - a monster race |
Mon, 04 July 2016 21:05   |
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 magic9mushroom |
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I have discussed bi-immunity before. You are mistaken. The bi-immune hab that pulls even with the Shofixti hab solely on over-50% greens costs 250 points more. That's just to pull even; to do better you need even more. The only advantage of throwing those 250 points down the drain is that you get half-price terra; it's as if you'd bought Total Terraforming twice, except that you didn't get the higher terraforming levels and also all your bad greens turned into reds.
2i 1narrow does not get better greens than 1i 2wide in exchange for the bad greens, the way 1i 2narrow does compared to 3wide. 2i 1narrow just has the same or even slightly smaller number of good greens, and reds where the 1i 2wide had bad greens. To start making 2i a better hab than 1i 2wide, you have to actually dump hundreds more points into it than the 1i 2wide costs and take ~40 wide in the last field; at cost parity, 1i blows 2i out of the water.
Factories give +150% capacity over factoryless for HE or non-HE. And going from 5/25/5 to 15/9/10 costs 615 points for the Shofixti; the Feds (as a well-known non-HE benchmark race) actually have a 616-point gap between the cost of those settings, one point more. The "higher factory cost for HE" thing only kicks in when you take more than 10 factory number; guess what the Shofixti don't have? 
10/3/8 or 10/3/7 mines work for a factoryless HE, but this has 2.5x the resources per planet!  You need a few more mines for a +f than a -f.
The rest - well, yeah, a +f is going to be slower than a -f but grow bigger, that's the whole point. This is still a fast race, though, thanks to the fast factories and 26% growth + 12% of planets being 75%+ breeders.
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