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Re: AR design Thu, 06 July 2006 02:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Tomasoid wrote on Wed, 05 July 2006 10:34

You cannot utilize more planets than a certain limit. Limit is dictated by minerals and resources. You cannot build too much colonizers and cannot build too much transport to spread out people. AR just have no minerals for that, and also AR should save minerals for mining robot building and mid game survival, that is much more important.

You speak like new planets (despite yellow or red) don't contribute to the whole empire. After pop on most greens starts crowding I usually colonize everything in my space just for free minerals. At the beginning I dump there one or two MFs to get pop mining equivalent of 15-20 mines, when pop from ultras is abundant, with 1-2 LFs (35-50 mines). One outdated MF can easily circle among 3-5 of them collecting minerals for building needed stuff. I noticed in my testbeds if I don't do that, is my mineral crunch much more severe. Those red planets usually don't build anything (if I'm hard pressed with orbital designs I even convert them to Starter colony forts), but contribute 50-150 resources to research and serve also as watching outposts. I'd say and excellent ROI for mere 200k pop. Wink

BR, Iztok

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