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Entropicurity wrote on Thu, 12 January 2017 15:25...so did some searching. The idea of a 300% over-capacity planet is... astonishing. The whole "orgy" concept has a whole new meaning now, because from the look of it as long as you have the colonists there to operate them, the idea of more factories (or a more substantial IS -f) swarm is just... wow.
Details of it I found here.
Two considerations, two conclusions:
1) Often enough IS is played as -f because the overpopping IS can cope a bit better with the lack of factories in the long run.
The biggest advantage of the orgie in comparison to bombers is, of course, the conquest of intact factories and mines. Well, -f and conquered factories... the conquered factories will get the bad minimal values of the -f, so there are rather lousy.
2) An orgie takes time. And even more time if you want to minimize the impact on your empire (due to the pop you take out). It takes a looong game to really use an orgie. In the example above, which definetly is impressive, the game lasted until 2552. Such long games are rare. Much more common are games lasting around 80 turns... too short to use an orgie as a deciding factor.
The orgie is such an impressive and completly crazy usage of game mechanichs that it is in every IS-players' mind... leading to the rather common mistake of taking pop too early out to just breed, thus crippling the whole economy and then loosing the game.
The other IS problem: defensive mindset. Because there seems so much to be gained from a little bit more of overpopping, the IS player might not look outward to expand but only inward. But as fine as those overpopping abilities are, 100k pop are MUCH more productive on a newly conquered planet than as overpopped 50% addon which even can't operate factories and die constantly.
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