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Re: The Ring 2, victor's account Fri, 12 October 2018 01:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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BackBlast wrote on Thu, 11 October 2018 17:52

Do you mean, with these mine settings?

The answer is no. It was tight there for a few years because my initial close greens were all poor in iron as was my HW and I complain about this quite a bit in the early years. But even so I was never really bottle necked by it, but it did limit some of my fuel ship production until I was spread out enough the iron concentrations started to average out and I actually had surface stores to speak of. After this point it was never an issue - even during my multi-decade destroyer production runs.

In all my testing and play, the biggest early or growth related mineral crunches occur for a few reasons. You're building factories, or you're building full starbases, or you're using privs which are mineral hungry. A -F with ISB can get away with 8/10k mines easily. 7/10k might be workable too, but that can get iffy with poor mineral concentrations. Those few ticks help you pay for ISB IMHO.


Cool, thanks for sharing. I'm still figuring a lot of these intuitions out, and indeed 80 points in the RW is nothing to sneeze at. Another thing I really need to work on is when to take risks and when to play safe (=slow)...

Just for fun, I had a look at previous game's designs, and it seems that beamer ships take about twice as many resources as bora, and missile ships take about as much iron as resources. Thus, to keep up ship production you need a mining rate of around half your resources, right? If mineral concs are about 50 that would suggest you would need 10/10k mines, so I guess 8/10 means that you are devoting a structural 20% to research or terra - which sounds reasonable. It does sound like that would be very constraining later on when concs drop further, but I suppose a -f WM doesn't assume there will be a 'later on'...



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