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Re: AR - TT vs ARM

Thu, 12 December 2002 14:02

freakyboy

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All of your points are fairly valid. However you miss a few great reasons in favour of AR.

1. You are not dependant on Geranium. Ironium is quite essential for miners but excluding that you are dependant on very little. This lack of need for Geranium means you can trade it with other races. Lets face it you need it, AR has it... in abundance.

2. Losing a planet is not such a huge cost. It may seem that way but it's not. Enemy sends in the cavalry and you rip all but the very last unit of your population. If you lose the planet you lose the starbase, defensive ships and one unit of people. If you were any other PRT you lose your factories, mines, defenses, any terraforming (if CA which is likely from beginners), defending ships, starbase, etc... In other words you have more to lose.

3. The further spread your population the better resources. The resource formula is based on square root. The higher your pop the more you lose out. This is not the same for other races. Once again, losing 1 planet from hundreds is minor compared 1 from 20.

4. Miners can rip a planet dry of minerals and move on. Mines on planets cant. They just sit there and try to bleed the last drop of minerals out.

5. Max population growth is achieved at 33% capacity, i.e. 333,300 on a none ORBM none JOAT race. With AR and a death star it's 1,000,000 - basically you can export 3 times MORE population per turn from major worlds. Nifty eh?

6. Total immunity from mass packets - I'd like to see a mass packet kill AR populus - if it does then something MAJOR went wrong Confused

7. Faster research. Since you can donate easily 50-80% of your resources from fully terraformed planets without losing out you can research much faster. AR can have the technology for Juggernaught BB's with Gorilla sheilds and Valanium armour by 2450. 25k by 2450 is impressive, but those BB's are something entirely different. ...

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		AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Tue, 26 November 2002 13:58
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Stalwart on Tue, 26 November 2002 19:28
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Wed, 27 November 2002 13:56
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: jeffimix on Wed, 27 November 2002 20:23
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Stalwart on Sun, 01 December 2002 08:11
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: BlueTurbit on Sun, 01 December 2002 10:38
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Mangar on Tue, 03 December 2002 01:20
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Fri, 06 December 2002 13:54
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: jeffimix on Sun, 08 December 2002 20:22
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Mon, 09 December 2002 13:47
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: zoid on Thu, 12 December 2002 04:15
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Thu, 12 December 2002 14:02
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Apelord on Sat, 14 December 2002 12:28
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: zoid on Sat, 14 December 2002 17:44
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: jeffimix on Sat, 14 December 2002 17:55
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Sat, 14 December 2002 14:33
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Apelord on Sat, 14 December 2002 17:43
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: zoid on Sat, 14 December 2002 17:51
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: freakyboy on Sun, 15 December 2002 07:17
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Apelord on Sun, 15 December 2002 12:51
		Re: AR - TT vs ARM By: Steve on Fri, 20 December 2002 16:13
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