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| Re: The Shofixti - a monster race |
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 XAPBob |
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Having watched the Shofixti in action I respectfully disagree with the proposition that they are weak in the early game.
The game they were designed for is without Acc BBS - and that makes a significant difference.
As stated the factories don't lag the pop by much, and in the initial push they have fractionally more very good greens than the 2i (though my intuition tells me that the distribution in that top few % will be skewed in the same way as the overall distribution), as well a plethora of medium greens available as staging posts/mining colonies.
The 2i version has to narrow that third hab by quite some margin - and that really cuts into the actual hab received. Yes, TF costs something, but initially you can just sit on the same number of 75%+ worlds and outgrow the universe handily - The initial TF push will favour the 2i a bit (because the third has is narrow), but not for long - the 1i will ramp past the 2i since they have far more capacity to make a difference to their planets (and the factories to make it work).
It's almost like a second set of factories (bit of investment yields longer term gains) - and in a larger universe that is very useful...
As for factory cost - it might cost more RW points per planet, but since you expect to take twice as many planets - does that really make a difference? I'm not convinced it does. You still get to build the same proportion of factories to pop after all - the ratios are identical.
The design is to stop the factories lagging so far behind the pop that they are all you ever do.
Then you take that pop, and those factories, with the mines you have and build large fleets of ships to go and spank your neighbours...
Yes - that 6th expensive field is potentially costly in a game where W aren't forced expensive - but they started next to a WM, and ate it for breakfast (yum, thanks for the tech boost).
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